Current projects
Seedcha participates to the FOOD'S DIGITAL FUTURE
2020, CITY AGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA
The future of food is changing — for the better.
New digital technologies are helping us transform how we produce, distribute, trace, and consume food.
By embracing food’s digital future — from the farm to the boardroom to the kitchen table — Canada will maintain and build its position as one of the world’s key innovators in agri-foods and food technologies.
The Symposium: 'Dutch Agriculture, European Policies and Global Food System Transitions'
2020, Wageningen University and Research
On Monday 2, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 November Wageningen Economic Research organized a digital symposium consisting of a series of three lunch webinars and Seedcha was proud to participate.
The symposium focused on the rapidly changing world order, the food security crisis, increasing poverty, climate change, and environmental challenges, and their impact on the role and ambitions of Europe and the Netherlands. Attention was paid to the driving forces and prospects for the transformation of the food system in the Netherlands, Europe, and the developing countries, and to the challenges for government policy, business innovation, and researchers.
The contribution of agroforestry in promoting sustainable agricultural development in Quebec and Haiti
2019 - 2020
Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie
In collaboration with the Union of Haitian Citizens for the Development of Rural Space (UCHADER), an agricultural cooperative situated in the South-Est department of Haiti, this project focuses on the analysis of agroforestry systems in Quebec and Haiti as a strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change through a technical synthesis of practical knowledge.
Seedcha supports Montréal's designation as a Fair Trade city
2019
Montréal équitable
Seedcha was proud to offer a letter of support to the campaign to have Montréal designated a Fair Trade, a status determined by Fairtrade Canada in partnership with the Quebec Fair Trade Association and the Canadian Fair Trade Network. Seedcha is committed to promoting the use of Fair Trade products both in its own office and to others in Montréal and beyond.
Strengthening agricultural marketing strategies for women farmers in the Bouaké region of the Ivory Coast
2018 - 2019
Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie
This project offers workshops as well as a written guide to address the barriers to market access and information faced by members of the Federation of Associations of Displaced Persons and Victims of War of Côte d'Ivoire, whose members are mainly vulnerable women already engaged in market gardening. The project focuses primarily on manioc production.
Seedcha becomes a partner in
Sustainable Montréal's 2016-2020 plan
2017 - 2020
City of Montreal
Seedcha is honoured to be accepted as one of more than 230 partner organizations to support Sustainable Montréal 2016-2020, the third Montréal community sustainable development plan. Seedcha is committed to meeting the challenges and opportunities presented along the path toward sustainability, both at home in Montreal and abroad.