Starving to be a student: The experiences of food insecurity among undergraduate students in Nova Scotia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Contributor(s): Meredith Bessey, Lesley Frank, Patricia L. Williams | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.375

Household food insecurity (HFI) exists when access to food is inadequate or insecure due to financial constraints, and is an issue of increasing concern among postsecondary students who face barriers to food access due to precarious finances. The goal of the current study was to explore the...

Obscuring the Veil: Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Contributor(s): Ellyse Winter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.377

Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States....

Examining Local Food Procurement, Adaptive Capacities and Resilience to Environmental Change in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Paulina Paige Ross, Courtney W Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.373

By exploring localized adaptation strategies for climate change, this paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of local perspectives and efforts regarding food procurement in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories (NT). The benefits and risks associated with engaging in local food...

“They hold on tight to the healthy eating, we hold on tight to our food safety, and how do we bridge that?”: determinants of successful collaboration between food safety and food security practitioners in British Columbia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Kelsey A Speed, Samantha B Meyer, Rhona M Hanning, Karen Rideout, Melanie Kurrein, Shannon E Majowicz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.384

Food safety and food security are two important public health sectors within Canada, which aim to address foodborne disease and food insecurity, respectively.  While these sectors are often siloed within public health organizations, the actions of the two sectors often interact and...

What Makes a CSA a CSA? A Framework for Comparing Community Supported Agriculture with Cases of Canada and China

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Weiping Chen, Tony Fuller, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.390

In different parts of the world, community supported agriculture (CSA) has taken a variety of organizational forms, drawn on different ideologies, used a variety of land tenure arrangements, and taken on varied types of market relations in terms of how they arrange sales and memberships....

Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Contributor(s): Emily Reisman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.415

This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from “next year in Jerusalem” to “next year, together,” the essay explores the politics of place in...

Student food literacy, critical food systems pedagogy, and the responsibility of postsecondary institutions

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Contributor(s): Michael Classens, Emily Sytsma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.370

The recent “pedagogical turn” (Flowers and Swan 2012, p. 424) in food studies has productively focused attention on how to teach for a more just and sustainable food system. So far, however, the question of the place for food literacy in food systems pedagogy has received relatively little...

Beyond Health & Nutrition: Re-framing school food programs through integrated food pedagogies

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Barbara Parker, Mario Koeppel | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.371

In this paper, we present findings from a community-based research project on school food environments in 50 elementary and high schools in a mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. Our findings highlight that schools' privilege five intersecting domains in the school food environment: 1) health...

Growing Food, Sharing Culture at the Rainbow Community Garden in Winnipeg, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributor(s): Laura Lucas, Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.439

The Rainbow Community Gardens in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a community project that supports immigrant and refugee families and helps them to grow their own food. The photos and accompanying text that make up this photo essay examine the role of food and community gardens as a means of expressing...

“Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Contributor(s): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.413

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective...

A Spatial analysis of population at risk of food insecurity using the voices from a Photovoice study: An exploratory mixed-methods approach

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Contributor(s): Mikiko Terashima, Catherine Hart, Patricia Williams | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.365

To better understand community-level impacts of the built environmental quality on residents with less economic resources to acquire food, it is fruitful to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to the investigation. We explored how the level of spatial accessibility in communities...

Une approche territorialisée du système alimentaire: : le cas de la région de Québec

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Contributor(s): Manon Boulianne, Carole Després, Patrick Mundler, Geneviève Parent, Véronique Provencher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.453

De 2016 à 2019, une recherche collaborative impliquant des universitaires et des organisations partenaires a permis de caractériser le système alimentaire de la région de Québec. Cet article propose une analyse qui rend compte de la complexité de ce dernier. L’étude repose sur une approche...

“I don’t want to say I’m broke”: Student experiences of food insecurity at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Julie Dietrich, Zoe Walter, Susan Belyea | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.423

Food insecurity, the inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints, is an important public health concern, associated with poor physical and mental health. Recent research among post-secondary students shows that it also has consequences for academic performance; food...

Food marketing and the regulation of children’s taste: On packaged foods, paratexts, and prohibitions

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Contributor(s): Charlene Elliott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.448

Playing with food has long been understood as a part of childhood, with adults placing rules around children’s eating. Over the past few decades, children’s imaginative food play has been commodified by the food industry—the play has been packaged and sold back to children, with fun appeals,...

Is the ‘obesity crisis’ really the health crisis of the food system? The ecological determinants of health for food system change

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Contributor(s): Sarah Elton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.447

Multilateral organizations and research institutions are increasingly calling for transformation of the industrial food system due to its negative health impacts, its contribution to climate change and the fact that the system fails to provide adequate food to more than 800 million people. A...

Working for Justice in Food Systems on Stolen Land? Interrogating Food Movements Confronting Settler Colonialism

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Contributor(s): Michaela Bohunicky, Charles Levkoe, Nick Rose | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.452

The evolving practice and scholarship surrounding food movements aim to address social, political, economic and ecological crises in food systems. However, limited interrogation of settler colonialism remains a crucial gap. Settler colonialism is the ongoing process of invasion that works to...

Growing With Lady Flower Gardens: Governance in a Land-based Initiative Focused on Building Community, Well-being and Social Equity Through Food

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Contributor(s): Ashley M. Roszko, Mary A. Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.441

The local food sector has been gaining strong momentum in the province of Alberta but inclusiveness, social equity, and affordability remain issues of concern. Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a community-based initiative that is working to address these issues. Established in 2012 on private land...

Integrative Governance for Ecological Public Health: An Analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Contributor(s): Peter Andree, Patricia Ballamingie, Mary Coulas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.450

Normatively grounded in the ecological public health paradigm, this paper speaks to the role of public policy in addressing food and nutrition-related health challenges through a critical analysis of the 2019 Food Policy for Canada (FPC). We draw on primary data gathered through a SSHRC-funded...

Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets: The Case of Lake Superior

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.449

The contribution of fisheries to food systems are largely absent from conceptions of sustainable food systems. At the root of this problem is that fisheries are often seen in terms of maximizing economic efficiency rather than local food security. This perspective piece engages with...

Modularity in Intersectoral Research/Action Collaborations for Food Systems Transformation: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Network: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Research Collaborative

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, David Szanto, Nii A. Addy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.431

How can academics and community practitioners better collaborate to overcome the existing barriers? What role can intersectoral research collaboratives play in supporting, enhancing, and sustaining the impact of community-engaged research? In response to these broad questions, this paper...