Realestate Foundation of BC (REFBC)
Land Access Project (LAP)
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Project Summary
Land Access continues to be one of the greatest barriers to economic vitality and food security disproportionately impacting racialized groups and individuals. The LAP project seeks to provide tangible and long term solutions to land access and land relations promoting conditions for greater equity and justice for racialized and newcomers in the Capital Region. The project seeks to build partnerships between local government, community organizations, and community members experiencing marginalization to develop policy, best practices and demonstration projects that create access to land for food growing, training, healing, demonstration and community celebration.
Key Objectives
The key objectives of the project are to:
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Support Appropriate Engagement: Support partnership between local government, researchers, community organizations and impacted individuals, providing capacity for participation in the process and project,
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Equitable Land Access Policy Creation: create equity model promoting criteria for land access decision-making by local governments related to public lands,
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Multi Sector planning for land access: undertake the feasibility for establishing a process and site that demonstrates the policy in action and is sustainable over time.,
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Providing land access to racialized groups and individuals: establish a demonstration land site for food growing, food literacy and community celebration.
Guiding Group
This project is brought to you in partnership with the District of Saanich, and the Captial Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR), and funded by the Realestate Foundation of BC (REFBC).
Anna Maria Stone
Mohanned Ghadban
Mohanned Ghadban
Mohanned Ghadban
Program Coordinator
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Project Partners
This project is brought to you in partnership with the District of Saanich, and the Captial Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR), and funded by the Realestate Foundation of BC (REFBC).
Project Staff
This project is brought to you in partnership with the District of Saanich, and the Captial Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CRFAIR), and funded by the Realestate Foundation of BC (REFBC).
Anna Maria Stone
Mohanned Ghadban
Mohanned Ghadban
Mohanned Ghadban
Program Coordinator
Videographer
Videographer
Videographer