Food Policy for Breakfast Seminar: Nick Saul- From Charity to Solidarity: Making the Case for Good Food for All –

September 24, 2013

Nick Saul, co-author of The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed A Community and Inspired a Movement and President and CEO of Food Centers Canada, discusses the problems with food banking and how he and his team have re-imagined this charitable approach using the power of food to build a new model for social change.

Resources

Selected Readings

• Janet Poppendieck Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement,  Penguin, 1999.
• Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, Random House of Canada, 2013.
• Michael Moss Sugar, Salt Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Random House, 2013.

Information on Food Policy Councils

• New York State Food Policy Council
• Toronto Food Policy Council
• Food Systems Network Policy Paper Food Policy Councils
• Mark Winne Doing Food Policy Councils Right: A Guide to Development and Action

Nick Saul on Twitter: @njsaul | Community Food Centres Canada

Event video will be posted when available.