Ontario has the most local food initiatives in Canada, at 27.7 per cent and alongside British Columbia, Quebec and Alberta makes up 75 per cent of Canada’s local food. According to the Ontario ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ontario has invested over $113 million in local food initiatives.
This may seem great but there are only seven countries in the world that produce and distribute enough food locally to be considered sustainable. Though we have access to so much technology and have over 24 umbrella corporations whose business is to assist and promote farmers we are still behind countries like Turkey who produce enough local food to sustain a population twice the size of our own.
The following are charts of local food initiatives across Canada categorized by province.
