{"id":1867,"date":"2010-03-15T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:19:42","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Siegel, director of the Niagara Community Observatory, holds the observatory's latest policy brief.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brock\u2019s Niagara Community Observatory (NCO) is set to launch its latest policy brief, which looks at issues affecting local food availability in Niagara.<\/p>\n

Findings from the eight-page brief, \u201cNiagara Food: It\u2019s Nutritious, Delicious, and Available But We\u2019re Not Buying It\u2026 Why Not?\u201d, highlight local food distribution and its availability. It also discusses environmental and economic factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis brief gives residents ways of being consciously aware of these factors, and ways to access local food,\u201d said David Siegel, NCO director. For example, the Niagara Culinary Trail group suggests not only that eating local allows for interactions between farmers and consumers, but that if Niagara\u2019s 435,000 residents spent just $10 of their grocery budget on local food each week, there would be a $226-million influx into the local economy each year.<\/p>\n

The brief is available on the Observatory\u2019s website: www.brocku.ca\/nco<\/a><\/p>\n

The NCO will host a community forum and panel discussion on March 18 to mark the launch of the brief.
\nThe panel includes:<\/p>\n