STORM DELAY March 31st

The PEI Food Security workshop will start at noon today (March 31) instead of 10 a.m.

Join us for lunch and a “slightly” compressed agenda. It is at the MURCHISON CENTRE, not the Murphy Centre as reported by CBC radio.

Good luck in digging out!

Michelle

Michelle MacCallum

Executive Director

Women’s Network PEI Inc.

March 31st Forum on Food Security

This is a reminder  on behalf of the PEI Food Security Network of another upcoming forum on food security

• Tuesday March 31st, 2009, 10am-4pm
• Murchison Centre (15-17 St. Pius X Avenue, Charlottetown – off St. Peter’s Road)

The forum will feature two guest speakers, Ubali Guerrero, and Celerino Tlacotempa, both farms leaders from Mexico and members of Via Campesina.

The forum will be a chance to hear about the work that Ms. Guerrero and Mr. Tlacotempa are doing in Mexico and with Via Campesina, and to discuss the challenges and successes that people face in working towards food security. They will have the chance to comment on how the right to food is being addressed on PEI.

The forum will also feature a presentation by Sara Roach-Lewis of Women for Environmental Sustainability (WES), about that group’s research on the role of women in fisheries management.

This is also an invitation to a meeting with the guest speakers, after the forum from 4:00pm to 4:45pm, to speak about addressing fair trade and the right to food on PEI. This will be a great opportunity to get some suggestions on how best to move forward with these issues.

For more information, or to register for the forum, call Michelle
MacCallum at 368-5040.

Hope to see you on the 31st!

Notes from “Sowing the Seeds”

Here are notes from our workshop on February 24^th. I hope we have managed to capture the richness of the day’s discussions. Please feel free to forward comments to us.

If you would like a hard copy, please let me know so we can arrange for you to pick up a copy!

Don’t forget our two upcoming events (posted below).

Michelle

Link to PDF: sowing-the-seeds

Two Upcoming Food Security Events

for PEI Food Security Network (FSN) Members and Associates

#1

Monday, March 23, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Murphy’s Community Centre, Charlottetown

A workshop on the impact on food security of new directions for PEI agriculture* a review of the January 2009 document, Growing the Island Way: The Next Chapter for the Agriculture and Agri-Food

Organized by the FSN Food Production and Distribution Working Group

Please Register: call Michel or Marie at 894-4573 or e-mail
cooperinstitute *at* eastlink *dot* ca

(*The Food Production and Distribution Working Group will plan a future workshop on the fishery)

#2

Tuesday March 31, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Murchison Centre, Charlottetown

A Forum on successes in overcoming global and local obstacles to food security featuring Juana Ferrer Paredes a farm leader from the Dominican Republic and featuring a made-in-PEI plan for overcoming the obstacles to Food security Organized by the FSN Food Production and Distribution Working Group; the Access to Safe, Healthy and Culturally Appropriate Food Working Group; and the FSN Coordinating Committee.

(Juana works with Via Campesina, an organization of small- and medium-sized producers from 56 countries from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This organization is one of the first promoters of the food security movement)

Please Register: call Michelle or Sara 368-5040 or email
michelle *at* wnpei *dot* org

Social Forum and Reception

Social Forum / Reception, Thursday March 12

“25 Random Things About the World Food System”

with: Wayne Roberts, Toronto Food Policy Council and special guests: Laura Rance, Editor, Manitoba Cooperator, Steve Thomson, BC Agriculture Council & Josh Herbin, Nova Scotia Farmer, Agri-Innovation Award Winner

At the whY Condos, Corners of Euston and Prince Streets Thursday March 12 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.

This event is not a Food Security Network event, so please call the organizer for more information: Phil Ferrarro of the ADAPT Council, 367-0390