Pre-Conference - Food for Health Workshop


Advancing Food Systems Sustainability

 

Workshop Overview

The 2023 Food for Health workshop Advancing Foods Systems Sustainability aims to provide an overview of the relevance and important of food systems, while considering diverse perspectives of multiple stakeholders (government, academics, industry, health care professionals, consumers) to consider the ideas that will help to advance the sustainability of food systems.  DOWNLOAD WORKSHOP FLYER

Learning Objectives include:

  1. Recognize the dynamics of a sustainable food system
  2. Explain the challenges in advancing food systems sustainability from diverse stakeholders and perspectives
  3. Recognize opportunities for innovation to advance a more sustainable food system.

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Registration details

Program

Draft schedule; subject to change. All times ET.  Food for Health pre-conference workshop registration can be purchased as an add-on to the general conference registration.

Thursday, May 4 2023

 7:45am -   8:30am
Registration  - Breakfast on own (not provided on May 4, 2023)
 8:30am -  8:45am
Welcome and Introductions

Alison Duncan, PhD, RD, FDC - Professor, University of Guelph / CNS Past-President

 8:45am -  9:30am
Keynote Address: Overview of issues in Food Systems Sustainability

Tyler McCann - Managing Director, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI)

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

 9:30am - 10:00am
Food Policy for Canada

Patrick Verreault - Deputy Director, Food Policy Division, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

10:00am - 10:20am
Question Period
10:20am -  10:40am
Break
10:40am - 11:10am
Redesigning Food for Circularity: How Upcycled Foods Reduce Waste, Capture Nutrition and Tackle the Climate Crisis

Mariel Nunley - Certification Manager, Upcycled Food Association

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

11:10am - 11:40am
When Hunger Can't Wait - meeting the immediate need in the face of deepening poverty

Richard Matern - Director of Research, Food Bank Canada

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

11:40am - 12:00pm
Question Period

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

 1:00pm -  1:30pm
Identifying opportunities, synergies and trade-offs in pursuit of sustainable food systems: Science and practice

Nathan Pelletier, PhD -  Food Systems PRISM Lab, University of British Columbia 

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

 1:30pm -  2:00pm
Dietitians for Climate Change Mitigation

Anneke Hobson, MA, MPH, RD - Drawdown Dietetics

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

 2:00pm -  2:20pm
Question Period
 2:20pm -   2:40pm
Break
 2:40pm -  3:10pm
Perspectives on Food Security and Sustainable Food Systems from work with Indigenous Peoples and Communities

Rhona Hanning PhD, FDC - Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION

 3:10pm -  3:40pm
Law : a force for positive change towards sustainable food systems

Geneviève Parent, LLD - Professor, Research Chair Food Diversity and Security, Université Laval 

SESSION & SPEAKER DESCRIPTION 

 3:40pm -  4:00pm
Question Period
 4:00pm -  4:25pm
Speaker PANEL
 4:25pm -  4:30pm
Session wrap-up and concluding remarks

Speaker: Dr. Alison Duncan

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