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