Provincial approaches to food security

It does, however, indicate an understanding of the importance of the ability to be food self-reliant as it aimed to get a perspective on the total food production and self-reliance of BC. [...] This includes: • increasing awareness about food security, • access to healthy local foods, • food knowledge and skills, • community capacity to address food security in local contexts, • the development and use of policies to facilitate community food security. [...] The guide’s goals were to clarify the purpose of a community food assessment, identify key elements and processes of a community food assessment, and provide tools to assist those who are conducting community food assessments. [...] This paper described the origins of food security policy in British Columbia and the role that the health sector can play in promoting food security. [...] The program was launched as a pilot on a one-year basis in 2009 through a partnership between the Government of British Columbia, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, BC Agriculture in the Classroom, the Aboriginal Agriculture Education Society of BC, and the BC Paediatric Society.