How tax credits and social finance are building a healthy future for Nova Scotians

โ€œThere are social, green, brown and transition bonds โ€ฆ why not agriculture bonds?โ€

Why It Matters

Canadaโ€™s small-scale farmers and food producers face a myriad of challenges, including access to capital. Could community investment funds provide a solution, while also building resilient food systems and healthy people?

 

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Charlie MacLean lives in the same house where his parents raised him in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. He inherited the house when his mother passed away; and just like his parents before him, he and his wife grow a fair amount of their own food.ย 

Food has also been at the centre of MacLeanโ€™s long career. While studying at Acadia University, he worked in the schoolโ€™s food service department to make ends meet. After graduating with a bachelor of business administration, he went onto head food services at a number

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