The DG Ivey Library is the home of the Urban Agriculture and Food Policy Collection. Originally developed by Jac Smit, the collection contains a wide range of materials focusing on urban agriculture, small-scale farming, food activism, and food-related policies around the world. It also includes rare and difficult-to-find books, magazines, journals, personal papers, policy documents, and reports by governments and non-governmental organizations from around the world – most of them published between 1970 and 1999.
A list of materials in the collection is available through either the University of Toronto Libraries’ online catalogue or through a Zotero Group Library.
Other Urban Agriculture and Food Security Resources
Urban Agriculture Organizations
- Toronto Food Policy Council
- Toronto Urban Growers
- Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington
- Ottawa Food Policy Council
- Edmonton FoodCouncil
- Montreal Food Policy Council
- Calgary Food Policy Council
- Food Matters Manitoba
- Hamilton Food Strategy
- Middlesex-London Food Policy Council
- Indigenous Food Systems Network
- Food Secure Canada (Includes Indigenous Circle and Indigenous Food Sovereignty)
- Halifax Food Policy Alliance
- Durham Food Policy Council
- Saskatoon Food Policy Council
- Vancouver Urban Farmers
- Ontario Urban Agriculture Business Information Bundle: Growing Fruit and Vegetables
- Opportunities for growth: An Urban Agriculture Toolkit
- Urban Agriculture Garden Guide Manual for Starting and Designing Urban Agriculture Projects (City of Vancouver)
- Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy
Other Countries
Case Studies
Food Security
Action plans/policy/activism
Canada
Other Countries
- Cultivating Resistance an Urban Agriculture Toolkit to Support Oakland’s Independent Food system
- Urban Gardening in Nairobi
- Growing Greener Cities in Africa
- Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture for Food Security in Low Income Countries
- Urban Food Justice
- Guide: Urban Agriculture: Best Practices and Possibilities
- Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
Toronto Seed Library
New College Library is one of the locations for the Toronto Seed Library! Stop by in the spring to collect your seeds.
Visit the Toronto Seed Library website for a full list of locations and more details about the program