Locally-grown food platforms
Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.NDP
Green
- Invest $2.5m/year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture.
- Set targets for domestic production.
- Rooftop gardens.
- Re-establish infrastructure for local food production.
- Preserve and record existing farmland.
Invest $2.5 million per year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture and help new farmers get started.
Set a target to replace a third of Canada’s food imports with domestic production, increasing regional food self-reliance and returning 15 billion food dollars back into our economy.
Support rooftop and community gardens and urban food production systems to increase access to local food.
Assist in re-establishing the infrastructure for local food production in canneries, slaughterhouses and other value-added food processing.
Protect supply management systems while allowing production for local markets outside this system.
Reinstate the Canada Land Inventory program to provide a comprehensive record of existing and potential agricultural land.
Provide effective fiscal incentives to other levels of government to preserve farmlands under their jurisdictions.
From Election Plan 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.