Planning for food sovereignty in Canada? A comparative case study of two rural communities

2025-03-19 22:03:47 | Contributor(s): Virginie Lavallée-Picard | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.73

In Canada, most local-governance level food system planning research has been conducted in larger, often urban communities. However, producers in small rural communities conduct the majority of Canada’s agricultural activities. Using case-study research, this paper documents how the rural...

Cultivating community through gardening in Kenora, Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Rob Moquin, Alan P. Diduck, A. John Sinclair, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.167

Community gardens are places where people connect, share, and engage their social and ecological communities. The purpose of this research was to document and communicate participants’ experiences of community-building through community gardening in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. The primary method...

Heroes for the helpless: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian national print media’s coverage of the food insecurity crisis in Nunavut

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Bradley Hiebert, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.149

In northern Canada, the Inuit’s transition from a culturally traditional to a Western diet has been accompanied by chronic poverty and provoked high levels of food insecurity, resulting in numerous negative health outcomes. This study examines national coverage of Nunavut food insecurity as...

Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165

This article will apply food regime theory to an examination of the rise and fall of the apple industry in Nova Scotia between 1862 and 1980. From the 1860s until World War II, apples were a booming cross-Atlantic export business that continued the colonial bonds to Britain. But after the war,...

Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Sonia D. Wesche, Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon, Michael A. Robidoux, Courtney W. Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.161

Food security in Canada’s North is complex, and there is no singular solution. We argue that land-based wild food programs are useful and effective in contributing to long-term food security, health and well-being for Indigenous communities in the context of changing environmental conditions....

The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.146

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives.  Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of Edmonton and the Rimbey farmers’ market are used to examine the different strategies used to scale up...

Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Lenore Newman, Lisa Jordan Powell, Jennifer Nickel, Dylan Anderson, Lea Jovanovic, Eileen Mendez, Barbara Mitchell, Kathryn Kelly-Freiberg | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.211

This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food and in agritourism, including customers from towns in the fringe and from the larger nearby...

Petits commerces de bouche et réseaux alimentaires alternatifs: un regard montréalais

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Alexandre Maltais | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.189

Cet article aborde les réseaux de distribution alimentaire alternatifs par une de leur leurs extrémités jusqu’ici négligée dans la littérature comme dans le débat public, les petits commerces de détail urbains. Ceux-ci se multiplient sur plusieurs rues commerçantes dans les grandes villes...

Ecological food practices and identity performance on Cape Breton Island

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Erna MacLeod | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.172

As globalization disrupts traditional industries and economies, investigations of localized responses to these disruptions can offer insights to guide strategies in regions facing similar challenges. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is one such location. Traditionally, the island’s economy was...

Organic vs. Local: Comparing individualist and collectivist motivations for “ethical” food consumption

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Shyon Baumann, Athena Engman, Emily Huddart-Kennedy, Josee Johnston | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.191

We extend prior research on “ethical” food consumption by examining how motivations can vary across demographic groups and across kinds of ethical foods simultaneously. Based on a survey of food shoppers in Toronto, we find that parents with children under the age of 5 are most likely to...

Mise en marché et certification de l’anguille argentée et de l’esturgeon noir de l’estuaire du St-Laurent: des « vendredis maigres » aux produits fins

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Sabrina Doyon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.190

Les contours et les apports des programmes de certification ont été largement étudié dans le secteur agricole, mais demeurent à être étudiés plus en profondeur dans le secteur des pêcheries. Plus particulièrement, l’indication géographique protégée (IGP) est une certification encore peu...

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Wesley Tourangeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.208

It has been 20 years since Canada’s first commercially grown genetically modified (GM) crops were approved and debates over these contentious products continue to gain momentum. Literature exploring Canada’s GMO debates has yet to focus specifically on the discourse of pro-biotech public...

Student food insecurity at the University of Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Meghan Entz, Joyce Slater, Annette Aurélie Desmarais | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.204

While rates of food insecurity among various sectors of Canadian population are well documented, food security among post-secondary students as a particularly vulnerable population has emerged in recent years as an area of research. Based on a survey of 548 students in the 2015/16 school year,...

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributor(s): Gavin Schneider, Victoria Fast | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.242

The practice of urban agriculture (UA) is a unique food system model that localizes the production of sustainable, geographically appropriate food. The environmental benefits inherent in UA aligns with the emerging field of climate smart agriculture (CSA). However, the agro-industry focus of...

Invisible guests: A sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributor(s): Melanie Binette | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Invité.e.s invisibles (Invisible Guests) is a sound installation created in collaboration with a community restaurant that provides affordable meals to a disadvantaged population in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a former industrial neighbourhood in Montréal. Recorded conversations were made...

Waste management as foodwork: A feminist food studies approach to household food waste

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Carly Fraser, Kate Parizeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.186

Food waste in Canada is estimated to amount to $31 billion per year, with approximately half of this waste occurring in households (Gooch & Felfel, 2014). However, household food waste studies remain underrepresented in the literature, particularly in a Canadian context. This paper calls...

An ecofeminist perspective on new food technologies

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Angela Lee | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.226

New food technologies are touted by some to be an indispensable part of the toolkit when it comes to feeding a growing population, especially when factoring in the growing appetite for animal products. To this end, technologies like genetically engineered (GE) animals and in vitro meat are...

Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.230

This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop of neo-liberal social welfare approaches that shape gendered food work within food insecurity...

“Sometimes I feel like I’m counting crackers”: The household foodwork of low-income mothers, and how community food initiatives can support them

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.188

For women parenting on low incomes, there is a significant disparity between household foodwork standards and the resources with which to meet them. This study centres on the everyday foodwork experiences of low-income mothers and their engagement with community supports such as community food...

Faux-meat and masculinity: The gendering of food on three vegan blogs

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Dana Hart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.233

This study explores the relationship between gender and veganism through a critical analysis of food-based discourse on three vegan blogs. As many researchers note, there is a strong association between meat and masculinity in North American society (Nath, 2011; Rothgerber, 2013; Rozin,...