Creative Campaigning Resources for Food Justice

The resources below are tools you can use to craft activities and awareness-raising events in your community. The goal: to spread the word on how each of us can make food justice a reality in our lives, and around the world.

1. Rice Web Activity: An interactive game where participants trace the origins of rice from field to fork to learn about where our food really comes from. Based on a template from the Dig In! Project.
2. Guide to Holding a Food Film Night: A practical guide to planning a film screening that focuses on food justice issues.
3. USC’s Favourite Food Justice Films: A list of twenty of the best food justice films that you should see, and screen in your community.
4. The Story of Corn: A storytelling script and list of materials for telling the story of corn – its history, and its role in today’s environment and society. Appropriate for younger audiences.
5. Name That Seed: A fun contest, perfect for tables at public events, that asks participants to match seeds to the crops they grow. Here’s how to use the ballots, the box cover, the crop display, the banner, response emails, and the solution.
6. Food Sovereignty Bingo and Biodiversity Bingo: Two simple bingo sheets perfect for use by teachers and young people as an icebreaker for workshops and other creative campaigning situations. Can easily be adapted.
7. The Story of Food: USC Canada’s new short animated film will get you thinking about our broken food system. It identifies what’s gone wrong, and what we can do to rebuild it.
8. The Seed Map: a teaching tool that shows the state of global agro-biodiversity today. It identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, particularly the impact of climate change, and highlights regions where institutions and peoples’ movements are working to preserve agricultural biodiversity. Order the Map – See it on Screen – Learn how to Teach it – About the Issues.
9. The Six Pillars of Food Sovereignty: The concept of food sovereignty has become a rallying call for peasants, farm workers, and civil society actors concerned with a more just food system. While it’s all about reclaiming decision-making power in the food system, and localising our food supply, the six pillars of food sovereignty will give you a better sense of the ideals of this movement.
10. Playing with food: A fun and interactive presentation for younger audiences (60 min) and a list of resources by age group to inspire young people between the ages of 3 and 15 to think about food, and to see what they can do to build a better and more just food system.
11. Tools to Campaign for Food Justice: A short presentation highlighting some Canadian food justice campaigns and actions, and a useful list of tools and resources to use to campaign for food justice.