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Wayne Roberts is a Canadian food policy analyst and writer. He is known for his role as the manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) from 2000-2010. The TFPC, a citizen body of thirty food activists, is responsible for generating food policy for the City of Toronto.〔See, for example, Harriet Friedmann,"Bringing public institutions and food service companies into the project for a local, sustainable food system in Ontario," Agriculture and Human Values, 24,3, March, 2007〕 As a leading member of the City of Toronto's Environmental Task Force, Roberts helped develop a number of official plans for the city, including its Environmental Plan ''Clean, Green and Healthy: A Plan for an Environmentally Sustainable Toronto'' and ''Toronto's Food Charter.'' These were adopted by Toronto City Council in 2000 and 2001 respectively.〔Clean, Green and Healthy: A Plan for an Environmentally Sustainable Toronto (City of Toronto, February 2000) (), Toronto's Food Charter (City of Toronto, February 2000) ()〕 His manual, based on Toronto's experiences, is called, ''Food for City Building: a Field Guide for Planners, Actionists and Entrepreneurs.'' Roberts included many ideas and projects of the TFPC in his book ''The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food'' (2013).〔No-Nonsense Guide to World Food, by Wayne Roberts, New Internationalist Publications, 2013〕 In April 2009, under Roberts's leadership, the TFPC received the Bob Hunter Environmental Achievement Award for its efforts to make food an action item on the environmental agenda.〔http://greengta.ca/positive-news/2009-green-toronto-awards-winners〕 The TFPC also won honorary mention for a major award from the Community Food Security Coalition that honors exceptional work to promote food sovereignty in October 2009. == Career == Roberts earned his Ph.D. in social and economic history from the University of Toronto in 1978. He has written twelve books, including: ''Get A Life!'' (1995) a manual on green economics, and ''Real Food For A Change'' (1999), which promotes a food system based on the four ingredients of health, joy, justice and nature.〔''Real Food for a Change'', by Wayne Roberts, Lori Stahlbrand, and Rod MacRae, Random House Canada, 1999; ''Get a Life!'' by Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum, Get a Life Publishers, 1995〕 From 1989 to 2013, he wrote a column for ''NOW Magazine,'' generally on themes that linked social justice, public health and green economics. In 2002, Roberts received the Canadian Environment Award for his contributions to sustainable living.〔Canadian Geographic online. http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cea/archives/archives_individual.asp?currentPage=13&show=8&cat=〕 ''NOW'' Magazine named Roberts one of Toronto’s leading visionaries of the past twenty years. In 2008, he received the Canadian Eco-Hero Award presented by Planet in Focus. In 2011, he received the University of Toronto's Arbor Award in recognition of his role in launching the university's first post-secondary courses on food security studies at New College. Roberts chaired the Toronto-based 'Coalition for a Green Economy for fifteen years.〔Coalition for a Green Economy http://www.greeneconomics.net/coalition〕 Prior to his involvement with environmental issues, Roberts worked for two decades in the fields of community organizing, university teaching, media, labor education, industrial relations and union administration. During this period, he wrote a number of books including: ''Cracking The Canadian Formula'' (1992) on the Energy and Chemical Workers Union, ''Don’t Call Me Servant'' (1993) on the Ontario civil service and Ontario Public Service Employees Union, and ''Giving Away a Miracle'' (1992) on Bob Rae's New Democratic Party (NDP) government in Ontario.〔Cracking the Canadian Formula : The Making of the Energy & Chemical Workers Union", by Wayne Roberts, Between the Lines Books, 1990; ''Don't Call Me Servant : Government Work & Union in Ontario, 1911-1984'', by Wayne Roberts, Published by the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union (OPSEU), 1994; ''Giving Away a Miracle: Lost Dreams, Broken Promises & the Ontario NDP'', by Wayne Roberts and George Ehring, Mosaic Press, 1993〕 Before his retirement in September 2010, Roberts was a major contributor to Toronto Medical Officer of Health David McKeown's food strategy report called ''Cultivating Food Connections.''〔Cultivating Food Connections. Submitted to the Toronto Board of Health on June 1, 2010. http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/health/food.nsf/Resources/340ACEEDBF1B2D6085257738000B22F2/$file/Cultivating%20Food%20Connections%20report.pdf〕 Roberts currently serves on the boards of FoodShare, Unitarian Service Committee,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url==http://usc-canada.org/about-us/our-people/our-board )〕 Alternatives Journal, as well as SustainOntario's Advisory Council. Roberts is a regular reporter on local and global food issues for ''Rabble.ca.'' He speaks across Europe and North America on matters related to food policy councils, food charters, food waste and food-related careers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wayne Roberts (activist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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