A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.497

Food charters have been one means of mobilizing critical food guidance relevant discussions among stakeholders and policy makers in rural areas.  As actors in the rural food system of Grey and Bruce counties, we describe the counties' charter development led by the Food Security Action...

Critical food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ellen Desjardins, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.588

In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and vulnerabilities of the current food system. Increasingly influential issues include environmental...

Critical perspectives on food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Jennifer Sumner, Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.592

Critical food guidance began as an inspiration, blossomed into a concept and then became a focal point for thinking about food system change. It will continue to evolve as we grapple with the complexities of the industrial food system and work toward alternative approaches. As a step in the...

Breadlines, victory gardens, or human rights?: Examining food insecurity discourses in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Audrey Tung, Reuben Rose-Redwood, Denise Cloutier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.530

Long before the exacerbating effects of COVID-19, household food insecurity (HFI) has been a persistent yet hidden problem in wealthy nations such as Canada, where it has been perpetuated in part through dominant discourses and practices. In this critique of HFI-related frameworks, we suggest...

Transformation or the next meal? : Global-local tensions in food justice work

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Elizabeth Vibert, Bikrum Singh Gill, Matt Murphy, Astrid Pérez Piñán, Claudia Puerta Silva | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.531

This article presents conversations across difference that took place among community partners and researchers at a week-long workshop in T’Sou-ke First Nation territory in 2019. The workshop launched the Four Stories About Food Sovereignty research network and project, which brings together...

Striving toward a peasant identity: The influence of the global peasant movement on three women farmers in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:08 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Roseann Lydia Kerr, Erin Richan, Coral Sproule, Ayla Fenton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.535

As diverse actors work through disparate food movements seeking to tackle the causes and effects of the global food crisis, Holt-Giménez and Shattuck (2011) call for strategic alliances between progressive and radical trends in the food movement to transform our current food system. This paper...

Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Teresa Lloro, Frecia González | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.537

A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because...

Enacting just food futures through the state: evidence from Brazil

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ricardo Barbosa, Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.540

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have...

Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

Over the past decades there has been a notable growth in community-based food systems projects and successes. Despite these advancements, food insecurity, precarious food work, ecological degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Carrie Seay Fleming | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.528

Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation, however, has been met with little resistance. In this paper, I show how the tensions between anti-GM...

Sharing the struggle for fairness: Exploring possibilities for solidarity & just labour in organic agriculture

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Susanna Klassen, Fuerza Migrante, Hannah Wittman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.536

Despite the organic movement’s early connections to labour advocacy and commitment to the principle of “Fairness”, the evolution of the organic sector has generated questions about the strength of its links to food justice in certified organic farming. Scholar-activists have, in particular,...

The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Syma Habib | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.538

COVID-19 has revealed deep inequities in our food system. As goodwill and charity from this crisis disappears, and emergency supports begin to dwindle, we can anticipate increased food insecurity amongst Canadians. Rising food prices and unemployment will drive a lack of access to fresh...

Reformist, progressive, radical: The case for an inclusive alliance

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Janet Elizabeth Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.534

Scholars of food regimes and food movements have argued that the capacity of the contemporary food movement to achieve significant change is dependent upon the nature of the alliances formed by the progressive, food justice component of the broader array of food change organizations. They have...

Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.521

In early stages of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian farming industry expressed panic that travel restrictions could disrupt the arrival of migrant farmworkers from the Majority World. In this Perspective essay, we consider how farm industry lobbying successfully framed delays to...

An unconditional basic income is necessary but insufficient to transition towards just food futures

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Elaine Power, Aric McBay | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.533

In food systems scholarship, the case for basic income to reduce food insecurity is well-established. Less well-appreciated is the potential for basic income to support young farmers, improve rural vitality, promote gender equality and racial justice in agriculture, and assist farmers in...

Towards Just Food Futures: Divergent approaches and possibilities for collaboration across difference

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Marit Rosol, Eric Holt-Giménez, Lauren Kepkiewicz, Elizabeth Vibert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.598

The call for Just Food Futures reflects a desire to address social inequities, health disparities, and environmental disasters created by overlapping systems of oppression including capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. While many food movement actors share a desire to...

Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Debbie Field, Carolyn Webb | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.618

We’re at a tipping point towards our goal of ensuring that all children and youth can access healthy food at school. With momentum building for a Canada-wide school food program, and with many provinces and territories making their own investments and developing programs, we have a collective...

“Dismantling the structures and sites that create unequal access to food:” : Paul Taylor and Elaine Power in conversation about food justice

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paul Taylor, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.567

In the summer of 2019, Elaine Power, Professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University, interviewed Paul Taylor for a research project on community food programs. Paul, a Black man, is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto and an anti-poverty activist. In...

Ethnic food practices, health, and cultural racism: Diabetes risk discourse among racialized immigrants in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.548

Type 2 diabetes is more prevalent among racialized immigrant groups in Canada compared to the general population. Hence, “ethnicity” is identified as a risk factor for diabetes, focusing on ethnic differences in health behaviours. By linking ethnic differences and diabetes risk, ethnic food...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...