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Plan Canada Webinar Series: Food - Where Are Our Priorities and How Do We Provide?

Join CIP for the next edition of the new Plan Canada Webinar Series! Listen as authors from the most recent issue share more insights from their articles and dive deeper into the theme, looking at the points of intersection and difference between their work, and taking members’ questions live.

The Summer 2023 webinar will look at “Food – Where Are Our Priorities and How Do We Provide?”. With a growing population, a changing climate, diminishing agricultural land, and the rising cost of food starting to rival unaffordable housing, pressures on our food systems are becoming ever more pronounced. The world is calling on planners to harness opportunities to integrate food as part of planning practice. Activities and plans influencing how and where food is produced through its processes, consumption, and disposal require careful, pragmatic solutions to solidify equitable food access for all.

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Date: Wednesday, July 26, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. ET

Issue: Summer 2023 – Food 

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Moderator

DILYS HUANG, RPP, MCIP

Dilys Huang RPP, MCIP – Dilys is a development planner at the City of New Westminster, BC, and has current and long range planning experience in various government settings. Prior to serving on the Plan Canada Editorial Committee, she was involved with CIP’s Centenary Committee. She completed her Master of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University and BES in Planning at the University of Waterloo, where she undertook research on municipal planning policies for urban agriculture, and the integration of food production spaces in multi-unit residential developments.

Speakers

JANINE DE LA SALLE, RPP, MCIP

Janine de la Salle brings over 17 years of experience in planning for healthy communities and resilient food systems with government, university, private and non-profit sectors and is one of Canada’s leading and award-winning professionals in the field of food and agriculture system planning. As Principal of Urban Food Strategies, Janine leads and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop plans, strategies, policies, and designs to improve the resilience of social, economic, and environmental elements of food and agriculture systems. Janine frequently teaches and publishes in order to share frameworks, ideas, and inspirations drawn from leading over 70 projects in Western and Territorial Canada.

NATASHA GAUDIO HARRISON, MES, Ec.D.

Natasha Gaudio Harrison, MES, Ec.D. is an economic development practitioner and strategic planner, as well as a student of rural planning and development. She has worked for and with rural communities across Canada, and she began her career in Treaty 3 territory in Northwest Ontario. She now lives and works in Huron County as an Economic Development Officer.

NAOMI ROBERT, MLWS, P.Ag.

Naomi has a deep appreciation for how food builds connections between individuals, communities, and land. She is a Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Food System (Kwantlen University), where she draws on her background in agricultural science and policy to coordinate food system research and extension as a bridge between academic, practitioner, and community initiatives.

Naomi received a Masters of Land and Water Systems (University of British Columbia) where she studied water and soil stewardship in agriculture, and a B.Sc. in Earth System Science (McGill University). She is a PhD candidate in Resource and Environmental Management (Simon Fraser University), a Professional Agrologist (BC Institute of Agrologists), a member of the Comox Valley Food Policy Council, and former board member of Food Secure Canada (2019-2023). Naomi is a settler on the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’omoks Nation and is grateful to live and work on these lands.