The state of post-secondary food studies pedagogy in Canada: An exploration of philosophical and normative underpinnings

2025-03-19 22:13:19 | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens, Lucy Hinton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.468

To date, there has been little empirical research on how food studies pedagogy has developed in Canada. Yet, across Canada, more and more postsecondary institutions are offering food studies in formalized programs and individual courses to undergraduate students. This paper contributes to the...

Addressing the call: A review of food justice courses in Canada and the USA

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Meryn Corkery, Will Valley, Joyce Liao 廖釆約, Colin Dring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.456

To address inequality's root causes both within and beyond the food chain, food justice scholars have called for explicit integration of trauma/inequity, land, labour, exchange, and governance into post-secondary education food studies and related fields. This paper explores how instructors of...

Digesting performance: An embodied-environmental approach to food pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.454

Food and food systems are distinct from many other areas of study, in part because of the material, experiential, and affective elements they comprise. Teaching about food can therefore benefit from pedagogical approaches that acknowledge, account for, and activate intersubjectivity, emotions,...

Eating and learning about food at school and on campus: Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) in Metro Vancouver

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.460

Food is an interdisciplinary topic that transverses different areas of knowledge, allowing it to be used as a pedagogical resource in numerous teaching-learning processes and environments. This paper seeks to contribute to early debates on the relationship between public procurement and food...

Preserving stories, preserving food: Intergenerational and multicultural pedagogies for food waste reduction from Pakistan, China and Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Tammara Soma, Jayda Wilson, Molly Mackay, Yuting Cao | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.455

Worldviews, cultures, spirituality, and history not only influence how societies define “food” and “waste”, they also shape how we consume food and the relationship we have with the broader food system. While food waste has emerged as a global concern and a complex “wicked problem” that...

Kitchen Wizards: Community Engaged Learning at The Wolfville Farmers’ Market

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Mary Margaret Sweatman, Barb Anderson, Kelly Marie Redcliffe, Alan Warner, Janine Annett | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.470

This article tells the story of an introductory, undergraduate required course with a significant community service-learning project developed in partnership between the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University and the Wolfville Farmers’ Market. This partnership began in 2009,...

Understanding and developing food pedagogies in Ontario pre-service education

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Rachelle Campigotto, Sarah Barrett, Rod MacRae | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.464

Policy documents implore Ontario teachers to integrate environmental education (EE) in the curriculum. Evidence of significant barriers such as lack of time, resources and knowledge, and lack of preparation at the Bachelor of Education level to teaching EE is well documented (Barrett, 2007,...

Agrifood systems literacy: Insights from two high schools’ programs in Ontario

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Contributor(s): Alicia Martin, Marie-Josée Massicotte | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.461

Following the increased industrialization and globalization of the prevailing agrifood system, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the detrimental impacts of this model on human health, food security, and the environment. As such, experts and citizens are calling for an increased...

From a study of the Newfoundland and Labrador school food system: : Describing an evolution in ways of knowing about school food

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributor(s): Emily Doyle | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.471

In this perspective piece I reflect on the importance of considering the place of schools within broader systems for critical school food study and intervention. These reflections are based on my study of school food in Newfoundland and Labrador from a systems perspective which helped reveal...

Towards a common understanding of food literacy: a pedagogical framework

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributor(s): Kimberley J Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, Sara Kirk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.467

Food literacy is an evolving term fundamental to both health and education.  The concept of food literacy typically has been informed by nutrition-focused thinking, with particular emphasis on food skills.  Moving beyond this traditional focus is necessary to address...

Cultivating critical and food justice dimensions of youth food programs: : Lessons learned in the kitchen and the garden

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributor(s): Tina Moffat, Sarah Oresnik, Amy Angelo, Hanine Chami, Krista D'aoust, Sarah Elshahat, Yu Jia Guo | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.547

In this article we present accounts of two youth food programs operating at a Community Food Centre. One program, Kids Club, engages children, aged 6 to 12, in cooking and gardening activities; the other, Cookin' Up Justice, is directed to adolescents (13 to 18 years) and explores food justice...

Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene – On the necessity of food and agriculture change

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Contributor(s): Marit Rosol, Christoph Rosol | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.532

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates forcefully that human health, the well-being of animals, and planetary health must not be viewed in isolation—and that they all depend to a large extent on the ways in which we produce, process, trade, and consume food. In this perspective essay, we argue for...

Seizing this COVID moment: What can Food Justice learn from Disability Justice?

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Contributor(s): Martha Stiegman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.525

It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying the structural inequalities Canadian society is built upon. We are now a year and a half into the global pandemic. I am writing from Toronto, where “hot spots” (neighbourhoods with high infection...

Unwrapping school lunch: Examining the social dynamics and caring relationships that play out during school lunch

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contributor(s): Jennifer L Black, Rachel Mazac, Amber Heckelman, Sinikka Elliott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.544

Students are important stakeholders in school food programs. Yet children’s daily experiences and voices are often overlooked in advocacy around school food. In Canada, where the federal government recently expressed interest in creating a National School Food Program, nearly no research has...

Proposing a Framework for School Food Program Evaluation in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributor(s): Tracy Everitt, Stephanie Ward, Wanda Martin, Rachel Engler-Stringer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.543

Healthy eating in school-aged children supports optimal growth and learning; however, diet quality and food insecurity are a source of concern for many school-aged children in Canada. Canadian school-aged children’s diets are a concern. In 2019 the Canadian federal government announced the...

Food providers’ experiences with a central procurement school snack program

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Mariam R Ismail, Jason A Gilliland, June I Matthews, Danielle S Battram | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.573

Universal, government-funded school food programs (SFPs) offer many benefits not only to the children they serve, but also to the communities that support them. To date, Canada does not have a national SFP. Thus, if one is to be considered, evaluations of current SFPs in a Canadian context are...

Engaging youth in food preservation: Examining knowledge and practice on Canada’s West Coast

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Majing Oloko, Maureen G. Reed, James P. Robson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.523

Youth in remote communities of Canada, including those in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region (CSUBR), can benefit from building food preservation knowledge because of the additional challenges they experience accessing healthy food. Regrettably, youth in these areas are not adequately...

Food insecurity on campus: A community-engaged case study with student-led families at the University of British Columbia

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Claudia Paez-Varas, Gail Hammond | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.576

This paper draws from a community-engagement case study conducted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. The study examines food insecurity experienced by student families. Research data was collected through quantitative and qualitative methods applied in a residence...

Operationalizing sustainable food systems through food programs in elementary schools

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Tracy Everitt, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Wanda Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.482

Healthy eating supports optimal growth, development, and academic achievement. Yet, the diet quality of school-aged children is poor. Food insecurity and chronic disease are concerns, as are unsustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable food systems have a low environmental impact and can...

“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Contributor(s): André Magnan, Mengistu Wendimu, Annette Desmarais, Katherine Aske | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.518

This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the...