Bits & Bytes is a new, social media project devoted to disseminating resources on food security developed as a pilot project of Food Secure Canada with funding from Social Development Partnerships Program of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. It’s goal is to act as a resource library to help Canadians share information and documents related to topics such as agricultural policy, household skills and systemic/political change. Project objectives are:
-To share innovations in food security with communities throughout Canada, through partnership with Food Secure Canada;
-To enhance collaboration among rural and remote, community-based food security organizations, technical and practical experts, government agencies, and national organizations;
-To adapt private-sector innovations in communications technology to the community not-for-profit sector.
Bits & Bites presents a unique opportunity to share Canadian food security issues into the social media market place, providing an opportunity for Canadians to trade advice and practical tips to develop Canadian food sovereignty and security. Resources range from the local, such as a guide to Salmon Arm British Columbia’s local food growers and producers–to the global, in the form of a world map of genetically-modified organism policies. I was surprised to discover that Saudi Arabia currently has a ban or moratorium on GMO crops and is GE-free.
Visit the site and add pertinent resources–Bits & Bites is powered by concerned people like you and I!
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Exploring through this, it looks very promising. I hope, with time, that it becomes more open than it currently is and new pathways for finding content are added. Still, it’s filling up with great content and will surely have much more soon. An excellent idea.
Yeah, over the last couple days it was bombarded with articles. It is true, however, that it’s somewhat clunky to work with and has limited input capabilities. That was probably a requirement of the grant they received ; )