Wednesday March 15 at 12:00 EST
Join us for reports from four unique community-based research cases in Atlantic Canada and the Northwest Territories, where the most prized goals challenge the accepted wisdom of economic primacy.
Seed Saving in Atlantic Canada (Seeds of Diversity and partner organizations)
- Conserving seed resources and related skills/knowledge
- Preserving endangered local varieties of seed
- Strong collaboration among seed savers, seed banks and libraries, and local seed companies
- Contributions to biodiversity, knowledge conservation, social capital and food security
- Investing in local food economy
- Provincial policies both make community investments possible and pose barriers to local food business
- Strengthening economic and social sustainability
- Mentorship and preserving/sharing food and business skills/knowledge
JustUs! Centre for Small Farms
- Farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing
- Preserving and sharing food skills and knowledge
- Engagement of marginalized groups
- Urban-rural and global north-south connections
- Building a community garden
- Sharing traditional knowledge
- Fostering Food sharing networks
ACCESSING THE WEBINARS
The webinars are facilitated through Carleton U, using the ‘Big Blue Button’ platform:
(Platform opens at 11:30 am on March 15, webinar starts at 12:00)
Accessing the webinar:
- Go to: http://edc.bigbluebutton.org
- Enter your full name
- Select the room: Big Data and Agriculture
- As a Viewer please use the password: participant
- To join the voice bridge for this meeting: click the headset icon in the upper-left (please use a headset to prevent noise).
To join this meeting by phone, dial:
(613) 317-3321 (1-855-215-5935 toll free)
Then enter 29302 as the conference pin number.
Facilitator: Irena Knezevic, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
For questions of additional info, please contact pmount@wlu.ca