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...

Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.443

Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of...

Meaning as Motivator to Address Distancing in the Food System

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Karen Rideout | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.442

Distancing in the food system prevents people from having full knowledge and making informed choices about what and how they produce, exchange, prepare, and eat food. This becomes problematic when the dominant industrial food system contributes to myriad negative human health, ecological, and...

Moving Your Body, Soul, and Heart to Share and Harvest Food: Food Systems Education for Youth and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Kaylee Michnik, Shirley Thompson, Byron Beardy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.446

Colonialism, and its partner, racism, greatly impact Indigenous food systems across Canada elevating the rates of diet-related diseases and food insecurity. Many Indigenous communities have responded to these challenges with their own community-based, culturally appropriate food solutions,...

Examining the relationship between food security and perceived health among Memorial University students

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contributor(s): Lisa Blundell, Maria Mathews | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.414

Abstract Objectives: The prevalence of student food insecurity at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) is relatively high (58.0%) compared to the national population (12.7%). We explored the relationship between food security status, perceived health, and student experience among MUN...

Characteristics of Canadian school food programs funded by provinces and territories

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contributor(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Mary L. McKenna | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.483

Given the complex administration of school food programs (SFPs) in Canada and recent federal interest, this research systematically examined provincial and territorial funded SFPs during the 2018/19 school year.Relevant literature and the RE-AIM Framework, a planning and evaluation tool...

Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Contributor(s): Charles Levkoe, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.515

Wayne Roberts (1944–2021) was a food systems thinker, public intellectual, and “actionist.” This text was developed from a series of oral history interviews conducted between December 2020 and January 2021. It touches upon several of the key themes Wayne addressed during the interviews:...

Fenced community gardens effectively mitigate the negative impacts of white-tailed deer on household food security

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Contributor(s): Paul Manning | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.416

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are large herbivores that thrive in urban and peri-urban landscapes. Their voracious appetite and ubiquity have made deer a significant threat to growing food in home and community gardens; features that often make important contributions towards...

Unboxing the bento box: An arts-informed inquiry into Japanese families’ experience at Canadian school lunch time

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Contributor(s): Yukari Seko, Lina Rahouma, Chie Takano Reeves, Veen Wong | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.492

Bento, a Japanese style boxed lunch, has a distinct cultural meaning for Japanese people as a medium of affective communication between children and parents. However, in Canadian schools governed by the Anglo-Western food norms, their culinary practices may stand out. This study employed an...

Food pedagogy for transformative social change

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Contributor(s): Chelsea Klinke, Gertrude Korkor Samar | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.485

The contemporary global agrarian regime has altered the patterns of food production, circulation, and consumption. Its efforts towards food security vis-á-vis capitalist modes of mechanized cultivation have produced large-scale climatic and socioeconomic ramifications, including the...

Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:14 | Contributor(s): Amanda Wilson, Meredith Bessey, Jennifer Brady, Michael Classens, Kirsten Lee, Charles Levkoe, Jennifer Marshman, Tabitha Martens, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Phoebe Stephens, Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.520

In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a modified version of the 2021 CAFS Presidential Address, given at the joint CAFS/ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN...

Humanities scholars’ needs for open social scholarship platforms as online scholarly information sharing infrastructure

2025-02-06 20:02:53 | Contributor(s): Daniel Tracy, Graham Jensen | https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v30i2.13742

digital humanities, digital infrastructures, information behaviour, humanities

Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication: How Far Can Technology Take Us and What Else Can We Do?

2024-12-07 22:55:40 | Contributor(s): Lynne Bowker | https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6262

linguistic diversity, scholarly publishing, multilingualism, machine translation

Engaging with Play and Graduate Writing Development

2024-11-16 00:51:22 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell, Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.606

graduate writing, play, writing development

A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President

2024-11-06 00:25:06 | Contributor(s): Katja Thieme | https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2022.2038510

Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such...

Inextricable: Doctoral writing, engagement, and creativity

2024-06-24 18:25:50 | Contributor(s): Cecile Badenhorst, Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/9V6T-YT95

doctoral writing, creativity, learning and engagement, pedagogy

Scaffolding and Play Approaches to Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Assessment and Iteration in Topically-Driven Courses

2024-02-26 19:51:59 | Contributor(s): Daniel Glen Tracy, Elizabeth Massa Hoiem

Discussions of digital humanities pedagogy have often focused on discussions of “scaffolding” and “play” (alternatively, “tinkering”) approaches, and methods for assessing student work appropriate to both techniques. While these approaches may seem...