placeholder RESEARCH REPORT - Circular Food Solutions in Canada: A Coast to Coast Landscape Scan

Circularity in food systems promotes three main principles that are derived from the idea food is a source of life and should be valued as such: • to regenerate the natural systems that support food production • to design out food waste and pollution • to keep food and nutrients in their highest and best use. [...] Circular Food Solutions in Canada: A Coast to Coast Landscape Scan | 3 2.0 METHODOLOGY The solutions identified for this study were compiled using the following avenues: • A literature scan of major Canadian agriculture and food-related reports (For example: A Food Loss and Waste Strategy for Canada, The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste, Characterization and Management of Food Loss and Waste in Nort. [...] † Food system resilience is defined as the capacity over time of a food system and its units at multiple levels, to provide sufficient, appropriate and accessible food to all, in the face of various and even unforeseen disturbances Circular Food Solutions in Canada: A Coast to Coast Landscape Scan | 6 3.1.1. [...] Food Recovery Solutions Finally, given the Canadian paradox of high food insecurity on the one hand, and high food waste volumes on the other, a large proportion of food solutions involve food rescue and recovery for human consumption. [...] As defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food loss§ and waste** (FLW) is the total amount of food in the supply chain that is not consumed.