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...

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...