{"id":84810,"date":"2022-03-03T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=84810"},"modified":"2022-03-03T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:17:15","slug":"food-resilience-discussion-connects-gulf-island-growers-and-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/food-resilience-discussion-connects-gulf-island-growers-and-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Food resilience discussion connects Gulf Island growers and consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralislandspartnership.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rural Islands Economic Partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (RIEP) hosted a virtual meeting focused on local food resilience on Feb. 22, as part of their monthly Connection Caf\u00e9 series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bulk of the event was a panel discussion between six representatives from various Gulf Islands, who formed a group of \u201crural island farmers, food producers and food resilience champions,\u201d which included Filipe Figueria from <a href=\"https:\/\/cceda.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cortes Community Economic Development Association<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One recurring theme throughout the event was <\/span>the huge benefit of connection and collaboration for mutual support.<\/p>\n<p>There were many challenges recognized, such as the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shortage of land and housing accessibility, the steep learning curve of organic farming and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">competing with heavily subsidized commercial agricultural products, to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Positive outlooks included the motivation the looming food crisis provides, subsidies that could incentivize supply and demand for locally grown food, and ways that small growers could band together to enter the supply system.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the event is available <a href=\"https:\/\/ruralislandspartnership.ca\/event\/connection-cafe-22-feb-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the RIEP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CKTZ News summary below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Islands Economic Partnership (RIEP) hosted a virtual meeting focused on local food resilience on Feb. 22, as part of their monthly Connection Caf\u00e9 series. The bulk of the event was a panel discussion between six representatives from various Gulf Islands, who formed a group of \u201crural island farmers, food producers and food resilience champions,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":84814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,222],"tags":[971,10599,12939,544,571,8657,12938,12937,11385],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84810"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=84810"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=84810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}