Below is a list of resources, proposals, reports, presentations, and briefs for City staff. Marina Queirolo, now marketcityTO, created each one with the support of market managers and organizations, depending on the project.

We regularly partner with universities to promote practive based community research. We have indluede in this list some resources developed by students, where we supported their work through mentorship or paid internship opportunties.

TORONTO PUBLIC MARKET'S TIMELINE

2024

• Public Market Week City of Toronto Proclamation

• City of Toronto Announcement

• Toronto Metropolitan Unviversity Research - ADD LINK

2023

• Presentation to Economic & Community Development Committee

Here is the link to review the presentation or listen to the Economic & Community Development Committee meeting or the motion. We were the first item on the agenda, so it starts at minute 14, and you can scroll to the parts you are most interested in.

• Understanding Toronto Public-Markets Ecosystem | 2019 Background Report

• Brief: Toronto Public Market, Strengthening Toronto’s Public Markets and Mid-Size Food Retail Infrastructure Link to document

• 11th International Public Market Conference Project For Public Spaces Report

• Main Street & Neighbourhood Research with Research Assistants, TransForm Lab School of Urban and Regional Planning Toronto Metropolitan University

• Building Toronto into a Market City 

In this episode of Voices from the Food Frontlines, Marina Queirolo of Market City TO highlights the ways in which public markets can facilitate short supply chains within a regional food system, support small and medium retail businesses, and build community. Click here to listen to the episode and read the full episode description. To learn more about the Voices from the Food Frontlines podcast series from the Feeding City Lab, click here.

• Bringing Farmers’ Markets to Underserved Neighbourhoods: A Story from Scarborough

What is the past, present, and future of farmers’ markets in Scarborough?  In this episode of the Voices from the Food Frontlines podcast series, the Feeding City Lab speaks with Jennifer Forde of the Scarborough Farmers' Market and the Courtyard Farmers' Market. Click here to listen to the episode and read the full episode description. To learn more about the Voices from the Food Frontlines podcast series and to subscribe for new episodes, click here.

2022

• Scarborough Fresh Food Pilot Learning Report

2021

• Proposals to host 11th International Public Market Conference  “Are Market Cities for All?”

2020

• Towards Market Cities International Report 2020

• Interactive City of Toronto 2019 Public Markets

2018

• Proposals to host 10th International Public Market Conference  “Blueprint for a Market 

• Hosted first Market City Concept at Honest Ed Farewell event Toronto For Everyone Report

2016

• Motion to Economic Development Committee

• Public Market Working Group Terms

2015

• Launch Toronto Public Food Markets Working Group at Toronto Food Policy Council Terms of Reference 

OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES

Toronto & Ontario 

• Farmers’s Market Ontario Community Benefits

• Withrow Farmers’ Market Season Report

• Food insecurity in Toronto City of Toronto

• Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains. Canadian Food Studies  Elton, S., Fraser, E., & Siew, R. (2023).  10(3), Article 3. 

Canadian Retail Sector

• The Current State and Future of Toronto’s Retail - City of Toronto

• Canada Needs More Grocery Competition, Competition Bureau Canada

International References:

• Markets The Barcelona Experience by City of Barcelona

• Understanding London Markets 

• URBACT Markets Network - Urban Markets the heart, soul and motors of Cities

• Connecting Small Holders To Markets