Lucca’s Plant Based Cooking Adventure

The London Food Coalition Inc. is dedicated to creating food prosperity initiatives that assert fresh food as a fundamental right.

When grocery stores receive new shipments, older food is often destined for the dumpster. Our goal is to take that food out of the landfill.

The excess produce is picked up by the London Food Coalition Inc., then dropped off at our food hub. Here the food is sorted and repacked in storage bins for redistribution.

Canadians are throwing out more food than they realize – food that could, at one point, have been eaten!

Unfortunately, we often waste good food because we buy too much, cook too much, or don’t store it correctly.

This site gives loads of tips on reducing your waste from meal planning to food storage and recipes to use up leftovers.

Second Harvest is the largest food rescue organization in Canada and global thought leader on food recovery. We work across the supply chain from farm to retail to capture surplus food before it ends up in the landfill which negatively impacts our environment.

Last year, we recovered more than 22.3 million pounds of nutritious, unsold food — focusing on protein, dairy and produce — we rescued before it became waste and redistributed to a broad network of 2,300 social service organizations.

Established in 1976, the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) supports farmers to build resilient ecological farms and grow a strong knowledge-sharing community. EFAO brings farmers together so they can learn from each other and improve the health of their soils, crops, livestock and the environment, while running profitable farm businesses.

FFCS work to advance agricultural policies that will help Canadian farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change. By creating space for farmers to share stories about climate impacts, practical solutions and policy recommendations, FFCS seeks to create a dialogue between farmers, the public and decision-makers to find practical climate solutions.

Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is Canada’s national organic farmer and consumer association and is a registered educational charity. They provides education, advocacy and leadership to help build an agricultural system that empowers farmers and consumers, enhances human health, builds community and mitigates climate change while increasing Canadian food sovereignty.

Did you know that Canada has made a new commitment of $5.3 billion in climate finance over five years to support developing countries in building their capacity to take climate action.?

Small-scale food producers, who rely on predictable weather to feed their families and communities, are particularly vulnerable to a changing climate. This is especially true for women, who must travel further and longer for critical resources such as cooking fuel and water. Their voices are seldom heard and they lack decision making power to address adaptation needs in their communities.

Nature-based solutions, such as conservation agriculture and agroforestry, can increase agricultural production and resilience, mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity.

At COP26 Canada should use its national statement to indicate support to:

-Ensure at least half of new climate finance targets adaptation.

-Focus on the needs of those who are most vulnerable to hunger and poverty, especially women.

-Prioritize support for nature-based solutions that build resilient food systems

See the power of this work as we meet Asnakech Zema. In this film, she welcomes us to her thriving farm in southern Ethiopia. In the last three years, she has built up her land through practicing conservation agriculture, and now grows enough food to feed her family and others. The work she and her family are doing to improve soil fertility, add crop diversity and develop marketing are increasing their resilience in the face of climate change and other crises. Asnakech’s husband treats her with new respect—and works alongside her in a farming and life partnership.

Canada Food Grains Bank works internationally to promote regenerative agricultural practices.

Every region we work in has unique challenges that are influenced by local culture, politics and history. Rather than implementing projects directly, we work with organizations who are already present in a country or community, understand the particular challenges communities are facing, and usually have a long-term commitment to the region and community. These partners are responsible for developing and implementing projects on the ground.

Help small-scale farmers adapt to the effects of a changing climate.