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Cost and Affordability of a Nutritious Diet in NS: Report on 2007 Food Costing

Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2005 (174 pages). Note of interest: The PHO recommends mandatory labeling of GE foods. Also comments on intensive livestock operations, aquaculture, and industrial contaminants in food.
 

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PHOannual2005.pdf

List of journal references for published research with the Nuxalk Nation by Harriet Kuhnlein and colleagues, Centre for Indigenous Nutrition and Environment (CINE)(2 pages).
 

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Nuxalk_Nation_publications_references.pdf

Briefing paper (6 pages), 2008. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. This is one of six IAASTD reports that were agreed to at an Intergovernmental Plenary Session in Johannesburg, South Africa in April, 2008.
 

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IAASTD_The_Role_of_Institutions.pdf

Briefing paper (6 pages), 2008. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. This is one of six IAASTD reports that were agreed to at an Intergovernmental Plenary Session in Johannesburg, South Africa in April, 2008.
 

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IAASTD_HumanHealth.pdf

The mission of The Organic Center is to generate credible, peer-reviewed scientific information and to communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society. Look for The Organic Center videos on You Tube!
 

The Rodale Institute wrote the proverbial bible on organic gardening, and have been promoting it since 1947. The Rodale Institute's website features organic news, research and advocacy; a certifier directory, crop conversion calculator, price reports, course offerings, resource directory, classifieds, articles, reports, farmer-to-farmer stories, forums, and gobs of information.
 

The FQH association encourages, co-ordinates and disseminates research in the field of organic food and health. They are based in the Netherlands.

"Research centre based at McGill University in Montreal and created in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal Peoples for participatory research and education to address their concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems.

In concert with Indigenous Peoples, CINE's mission is to undertake community-based research and education related to traditional food systems. The empirical knowledge of the environment inherent in Indigenous societies is incorporated into all its efforts."