Community Insights, Policy Pathways, and Strategic Advocacy Possibilities

Public Release: Food Justice & Food Security Edmonton — Community Insights, Policy Pathways, and Strategic Advocacy Possibilities

The Food Security and Food Justice Edmonton (FSFJE) Advocacy and Communications working group is proud to share the public release of Food Justice & Food Security Edmonton: Community Insights, Policy Pathways, and Strategic Advocacy Possibilities.

Grounded in community leadership, mutual aid, and systemic change, this document is not an advocacy strategy in itself. Rather, it is a comprehensive compilation of advocacy ideas, policy pathways, and community-identified priorities gathered over approximately 18 months of learning, engagement, and knowledge mobilization. It brings together the perspectives and proposals surfaced through working groups, convenings, research, and relationship-building across Edmonton and beyond.

The content reflects the lived realities and expertise of those most affected by food insecurity, including mutual aid organizers, seniors, students, youth, frontline workers, public health professionals, and people with lived experience of poverty, disability, racism, homelessness, colonial harm, and systemic exclusion. The strategies outlined span municipal, provincial, and federal contexts and emphasize structural change alongside community-led, culturally grounded solutions already working on the ground.

This document represents a foundation for strategic focus—not its conclusion. It stands as both a record of collective learning and an invitation to policymakers, funders, institutions, and community members to engage with the depth and complexity of food justice, and to work alongside communities toward a future where everyone can access, grow, share, and enjoy food with dignity.

Read the document:
Food Justice & Food Security Edmonton:
Community Insights, Policy Pathways, and Strategic Advocacy Possibilities

Our thanks to the City of Edmonton’s Community Safety & Well-Being funding for their support in making this project possible!