Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Rita Hansen Sterne | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57

Food systems include many issues interconnected through complex relationships. Some writers examine one part of the food system in depth but—from my perspective as a management student—a strength of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat is that it examines food systems by systematically...

Hedonistika-Montreal

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.54

When food, art, and machines clash in a gallery you have Hedonistika. Part food and part robotic exhibition curators Simon Laroche and Jane Tingley tackle the connections between food and technology with the aesthetics of digital art. On offer was a 3D printer providing you with an edible...

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Bradley C Hiebert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51

At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina...

The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | Contributor(s): Haroon Akram-Lodhi | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59

When global food prices spiked upwards in 2007, the popular press explained the spike, in part, by rising demand for meat in rapidly-growing ‘emerging markets’ such as India and South Africa. Such an explanation was palpably wrong: people in rich countries consume more than three times as much...

Voices and visuals from the Canadian foodscape

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.43

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, the open-access, online journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies/l’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CAFS/ACÉA). Our journal arrives on the scene in the...

Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Article | Contributor(s): Harriet Friedmann | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.35

I have been thinking for a while now about the intriguing concept of foodshed in changing urban food regions. As the world becomes more urban, North and South, new fora, such as the International Urban Food Network—with the Toronto Food Policy Council as partner—reflect this shift of...

Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: The social costs of eating fresh by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Anelyse Margaret Weiler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.61

One of the most common justifications for maintaining low-paid, precarious conditions for farm workers is that while farmers are being squeezed by globalized competition, economic turmoil and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, labour remains one of the few costs they can control....

Alternative agrifood movements: Patterns of convergence and divergence by Douglas, H. Constance, Marie-Christine Renard, and Marta G. Rivera-Ferre (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Theresa Schumilas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.64

The introduction to this volume offers a concise overview of the history and state of AAFN scholarship, making it a great early read for newcomers to the field. Drawing together experiences of global South food justice movements and global North alternative food movements is welcomed and a...

Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Brady | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.46

When most of us think of Canadian history, particularly Canada’s involvement in the Second World War, it is unlikely that food is what first comes to mind. However, Ian Mosby’s new—and first—book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front, invites...

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Sarah J Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

It is hard to avoid the question of the future of food these days. Filmmakers, scholars, activists and book authors are fretting over what is to be done. Joining the fray is Dan Barber, ‘chef activist’ at Blue Hill Restaurant at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico...

Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Geoff Tansey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

A long, long time ago, in a world where ‘free trade’ market fundamentalism was not the only economic religion, I helped start a journal called Food Policy—economics, planning and politics of food and agriculture. Well, actually, not that long ago, in the mid 1970s. It just seems a world away....

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.58

There is no shortage of books, magazines, lifestyle shows, and academic texts that have something to say about what, where, how, and with whom we should eat. In his book The Politics of the Pantry, Michael Mikulak critically engages with this storied food, a genre of literature, film, and new...

Campus gardens: Food production or sense of place?

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Natalee Ridgeway, June Matthews | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.23

Campus gardens can provide opportunities for experiential learning and enhanced physical and mental health; however, they require substantial commitments of time, money, and effort. This formative evaluation explored the perspectives of a university population on the establishment of a campus...

Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.30

Private agri-food standards have emerged in response to the constraints imposed on the role of the state under the influence of neoliberalism. These standards reflect the ongoing ‘value wars’ between the money code of value and the life code of value (McMurtry 2002). While some private...

From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributor(s): Kristin Burnett, Kelly Skinner, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.62

This paper is a critique of the report released on 25 November 2014 by the Auditor General of Canada (AG), Michael Ferguson, on Nutrition North Canada (NNC), a subsidy program designed to lower the cost of “perishable nutritious food” in northern communities. We argue that the situation is far...

Serious hunger games: Increasing awareness about food security in Canada through digital games

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributor(s): Una Lee, Stephanie Fisher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.44

Digital games are becoming increasingly common knowledge transfer media. So-called "serious games" or "games for good" have attracted academic, industry, and mainstream attention through the proliferation of conferences, journals, blogs, and online communities. They offer what few other...

Social economic organizations tackling food insecurity amid a booming economy: The development of the Good Food Junction Cooperative in Saskatoon, SK

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributor(s): Josie Steeves | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.49

Food insecurity is a phenomenon found around the world, including in developed countries that enjoy a large portion of the world’s wealth. Although the economy of the Canadian province Saskatchewan is currently ‘booming’, a large food desert still existed in one low-income area of the city of...

The no-nonsense guide to world food: New edition by Wayne Roberts

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.74

For many, the world of food is complicated and riddled with confusion and misinformation. The food system has become so globalized and convoluted that it has become difficult for even the most conscientious reader or eater to feel adequately informed. Wayne Roberts’ No-Nonsense Guide to World...

Globalization and food sovereignty: Global and local change in the new politics of food by Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | Contributor(s): Patrick Clark, Chantal Clément, Amanda DiVito Wilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.75

“To demand a space of food sovereignty is to demand specific arrangements to govern territory and space” (Patel, 2009, p. 667). However, the further we move into a globalized system of food and agricultural production, the more these specific arrangements come into conflict with current global...

GFG - SYNTHESIS - Thinking forward in global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Michelle Metzger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.120

Global food governance is ever evolving as political leaders become increasingly aware of the complexity and dynamic nature of managing the global food system in a sustainable manner. Calls for reform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the early 2000s...