I have been thinking for a while now about the intriguing concept of foodshed in changing urban food regions. As the world becomes more urban, North and South, new fora, such as the International Urban Food Network—with the Toronto Food Policy Council as partner—reflect this shift of reimagining relations between urban and rural. Canadian experience has a specific place in the practice of emerging city food regions, one it shares with other places of European colonial settlement (and displacement of indigenous land use), but also one in which urban food regions have pioneered policies bridging the rural-urban divide.

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• Friedmann, H., (2025), "Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.35)

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1. Brazil
2. China
3. foodshed
4. Ontario

Original publication: Friedmann, Harriet. "Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 4-9. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.35. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.