VIU Campus Food Movement OFFICIal Strategy

1 PreaMBleWe wish to acknowledge the broader national food movement by which our work is both con-textualized and bolstered, and recognize the significance of and align our work with both the National Student Food Charter and Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH).

2 MISS IONTo foster a healthy food system that demonstrates and celebrates innovation and leadership in food sustainability within the VIU community.

3 V IS IONThe VIU Campus Food Movement will build aware-ness, understanding, and access to healthy foods at VIU that benefit the local economy, sustain the environment, and uphold global justice.

4 ValUeSWe value:

COMMUNITY WELLBEING: economic, ecological, social, personal

We believe community wellbeing includes•An ecologically sustainable food system• Economic and physical access to healthy, local

food• Innovative solutions to obstacles and barriers

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

We believe community engagement includes:• Partnerships with the local growing, harvesting,

and processing communities• Inclusion of the diversity of food cultures that

exist in our community• Collaborative relationships with food distributors

FOOD LITERACY

We believe food literacy includes:• Opportunities to learn about and apply research

or experiential projects to healthy food systems• The understanding of the prioritization of healthy,

local, seasonal foods on campus• Inclusion of Indigenous food

knowledge and global diversity