Cultivating Food Connections: The Toronto Food Strategy and Municipal Deliberation on Food

Catherine L. Mah and Helen Thang

International Planning Studies, 2013, vol. 18, issue 1, 96-110

Abstract: This paper shares an exploratory case study of the development of the Toronto Food Strategy as an urban food strategy, through the lens of public health. It asks: what is a food strategy and how does it work? We will answer these questions through an analysis and discussion of the Food Strategy development process and attention to three key mechanisms: (1) framing or directing attention to the diverse policy instruments that deal with food, (2) brokering working relationships between diverse stakeholders and across existing governance arrangements, and (3) leveraging existing resources . We also distinguish the work of the Food Strategy from the role of food policy councils in how they cultivate deliberative spaces to catalyse policy change.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2013.750941

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