Land To Table

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Land To Table

• Where does our food really
• come from?

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Introduction

• We are part of the environment we live in
• The interdependent nature of food
• people, communities, economy, environment and
  food are linked

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Topics of Discussion

• Where does our food come from?
• Food, health, economy environment-linked?
• The true costs of food production
• Food systems that maintain ecological systems
• Consumers, food systems Stewardship
• Consumers supporting producers processors

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Were does our food come from?

• Agricultural Producers and Processors
• Plants, animals and their environments
• Ecological systems and processes
• Ecological goods and services.
• the base resources we
• depend
  upon.

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TABLE
WHERE DOES OUR FOOD COME FROM?
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STORES MARKETS,
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URBAN RURAL PRODUCERS PROCESSORS
?
TERRESTRIAL, MARINE FRESH WATER ECOSYSTEMS
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ECOLOGICAL GOODS SERVICES (THE BASE RESOURCES
WE DEPEND ON)
?
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GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CYCLES
INTERACTING ECOSYSTEMS
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• What are Ecological Goods?
• The products of the processes and interactions of
  earths natural systems.
• Examples
• Clean Air
• Fresh water
• Food and nutrients
• Fiber
• Timber
• Other raw building materials
• Genetic resources
• Medicines

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• What are Ecological Services?
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• Services provided by the processes and
  interactions of the natural world and all its
  creatures.
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• Examples
• purification of air and water
• maintenance of biodiversity
• decomposition of wastes
• soil vegeation generation and renewal
• pollination of crops and natural vegetation
• groundwater recharge through wetlands
• seed dispersal movement of nutrients
• protection from the suns harmful
• ultraviolet rays
• aesthetic beauty
•  

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Food, Health, Economy Environment

• Ecological health
• ? economic costs and ? health benefits
• Safe, Healthy Food Water
• ? need for expensive traceability programs
• ? risks to health agri-business
• Maintaining ecosystems ? sustainability
• ..of economy, communities food production

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The True Costs of Food Production

• Ecological costs inputs, including
• Maintaining and restoring biological and genetic
  diversity
• Maintaining and restoring ecological systems,
• goods and services (the base resources)
• Health and sustainability of people, communities
  economy
• Sustainable food and water supplies for future
  generations

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Transporting food through our
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
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THE COST OF PEELING AWAY THE INGREDIENTS THAT
PRODUCE HEALTHY SYSTEMS ?
OUR LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
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Food Systems that Maintain Ecological Systems

• produce goods in ways that
• Maintain production to levels that are
  sustainable- limits
• Reduce ecological inputs and costs
• Maintain ecological systems, goods services
• Ensure biological and genetic diversity is
  maintained
• Reduce resource use energy, water, soil,
• Use renewable energy sources
• Reduce waste and pollution production- air,
  water, land
• Reduce or eliminate chemical inputs
• Use native plants and alternative methods of
  production
• Care for the environment, communities and people

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Consumers, Producers,Food Systems and Stewardship

• By supporting producers and processors in the
  transition to ecologically sustainable food
  systems, consumers
• Become stewards of ecological systems
• Help to increase biodiversity ecological
  sustainability of land, water and food systems
• ...Help to Increase the health of people, food,
  land, water, and airin urban and rural
  communities

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• By supporting producers in the
• transition to ecologically sustainable food
• systems, Albertans can lend a powerful hand
• in the care of our life support system.

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From Land . . . To Table
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• The Land to Table Program
• Where Does Our Food Really Come From ?

Written and presented by Mona Southron Land
Stewardship Centre of Canada 17503 45 Avenue,
Edmonton, AB T6M 2N6 Ph 780-483-1885 Fax
780-486-9599 Website lsc_at_landstewardship.org Ema
il lsc_at_landstewardship.org