BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251214T100917EST-8980iZEr1g@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251214T150917Z DESCRIPTION:The Margaret A. Gilliam Lecture Series in Global Food Security presents Dr Gisèle Yasmeen\, Executive Director – Food Secure Canada. Join us online via ZOOM\n\nCOVID-19 has drawn attention to the precariousness and interdependence of our food system. Canadians\, and others around the world\, are experiencing challenges feeding themselves. People are being f orced to choose between paying their rent or putting food on the table. Th is includes groups that already have difficulty doing so\, due to poverty or mobility issues. This crisis demands that we ask serious questions abou t the structural inequalities in our food system. While providing urgent s upport is essential\, COVID-19 could provide an opening for something much greater. Now is the time to respond by strengthening local\, regional and domestic food supply chains and building more robust social protection to ensure people can access the basics. The current industrial food system i s also in need of transformation. How will our response to COVID-19 addres s the climate crisis as well as diet-related disease and promote sustainab le livelihoods? This presentation will delve into how food policies and as sociated programming such as institutional procurement – including school food – which could provide the kind of levers to transition Canada toward a healthier\, more just and sustainable food system.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \n\nDr Yasmeen joined Food Secure Canada as Executive Director in May 2019 and has 20 years of leadership experience in knowledge organizations havi ng served as a not-for-profit and government executive including Vice-Pres ident of Research and Partnerships at the Social Sciences and Humanities R esearch Council\, Senior Director of Outreach\, Communications and Researc h at Elections Canada and founding Regional Director for British Columbia and the Yukon of the Centre for Research and Information on Canada. Gisèle brings a deep food systems lens to her work and started working on agri-f ood issues in both Asia and Canada in the early 1990s and has published wi dely in the field including two books\, several scholarly articles and med ia commentary in both English and French. She has held faculty appointment s at the University of British Columbia\, Royal Roads University and Dawso n College in Montreal. Gisèle has a PhD from the University of British Col umbia\, a master’s degree from 9I and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) fro m University of Ottawa. Gisèle has also advised numerous organizations inc luding the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, “The Big Picnic” (a Europea n-Union funded project on food security involving botanical gardens)\, the World Bank\, the United Nations FAO and the Laurier Centre for Sustainabl e Food Systems. Gisèle is currently a member of the scientific committee o f CityFood project at New York University. She has also served on four boa rds of directors of Canadian not-for-profit organizations over the course of her career.\n DTSTART:20200505T160000Z DTEND:20200505T170000Z LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/9344315787?pwd=elgyTWJsZUVhQ1FXakdX MUp1WnJaZz09 SUMMARY:Food security in Canada in times of COVID-19: a paradigm shift URL:/macdonald/channels/event/food-security-canada-tim es-covid-19-paradigm-shift-321900 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR