Transformation or the next meal? : Global-local tensions in food justice work

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Essay | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Vibert, Bikrum Singh Gill, Matt Murphy, Astrid Pérez Piñán, Claudia Puerta Silva | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.531

This article presents conversations across difference that took place among community partners and researchers at a week-long workshop in T’Sou-ke First Nation territory in 2019. The workshop launched the Four Stories About Food Sovereignty research network and project, which brings together...

Striving toward a peasant identity: The influence of the global peasant movement on three women farmers in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:08 | Essay | Contributor(s): Roseann Lydia Kerr, Erin Richan, Coral Sproule, Ayla Fenton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.535

As diverse actors work through disparate food movements seeking to tackle the causes and effects of the global food crisis, Holt-Giménez and Shattuck (2011) call for strategic alliances between progressive and radical trends in the food movement to transform our current food system. This paper...

Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Teresa Lloro, Frecia González | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.537

A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because...

Sharing the struggle for fairness: Exploring possibilities for solidarity & just labour in organic agriculture

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Susanna Klassen, Fuerza Migrante, Hannah Wittman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.536

Despite the organic movement’s early connections to labour advocacy and commitment to the principle of “Fairness”, the evolution of the organic sector has generated questions about the strength of its links to food justice in certified organic farming. Scholar-activists have, in particular,...

‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Carrie Seay Fleming | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.528

Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation, however, has been met with little resistance. In this paper, I show how the tensions between anti-GM...

Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

Over the past decades there has been a notable growth in community-based food systems projects and successes. Despite these advancements, food insecurity, precarious food work, ecological degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

Enacting just food futures through the state: evidence from Brazil

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Ricardo Barbosa, Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.540

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have...

Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Essay | Contributor(s): Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.521

In early stages of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian farming industry expressed panic that travel restrictions could disrupt the arrival of migrant farmworkers from the Majority World. In this Perspective essay, we consider how farm industry lobbying successfully framed delays to...

Reformist, progressive, radical: The case for an inclusive alliance

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Essay | Contributor(s): Janet Elizabeth Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.534

Scholars of food regimes and food movements have argued that the capacity of the contemporary food movement to achieve significant change is dependent upon the nature of the alliances formed by the progressive, food justice component of the broader array of food change organizations. They have...

The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Essay | Contributor(s): Syma Habib | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.538

COVID-19 has revealed deep inequities in our food system. As goodwill and charity from this crisis disappears, and emergency supports begin to dwindle, we can anticipate increased food insecurity amongst Canadians. Rising food prices and unemployment will drive a lack of access to fresh...

An unconditional basic income is necessary but insufficient to transition towards just food futures

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Essay | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Aric McBay | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.533

In food systems scholarship, the case for basic income to reduce food insecurity is well-established. Less well-appreciated is the potential for basic income to support young farmers, improve rural vitality, promote gender equality and racial justice in agriculture, and assist farmers in...

Towards Just Food Futures: Divergent approaches and possibilities for collaboration across difference

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Essay | Contributor(s): Marit Rosol, Eric Holt-Giménez, Lauren Kepkiewicz, Elizabeth Vibert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.598

The call for Just Food Futures reflects a desire to address social inequities, health disparities, and environmental disasters created by overlapping systems of oppression including capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. While many food movement actors share a desire to...

Jessica Fanzo, (2021). Can fixing dinner fix the planet? John Hopkins University Press, reviewed by Kathleen Kevany

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Review | Contributor(s): Kathleen May Kevany | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.595

Tasks undertaken at home have influence around the world. Eating patterns that citizens adopt or support have diverse impacts on the planet. What we fix for dinner may well help to fix the planet when lower emission foods, reduced waste, enhanced distribution, and equality are emphasized....

Proposing a Framework for School Food Program Evaluation in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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 | Article | 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...

COVID-19: First wave impacts on the Charitable Food Sector in Manitoba, Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Article | Contributor(s): Joyce Slater, Natalie Riediger, Bhanu Pilli, Kelsey Mann, Hannah Derksen, Avery L. Penner, Chantal Perchotte | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.551

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic led to significant socioeconomic changes in Canada due to business and school closures, and related job losses. This increased food insecurity among vulnerable populations, as well as many who had not been previously food insecure, placing unprecedented...

Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Essay | Contributor(s): Debbie Field, Carolyn Webb | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.618

We’re at a tipping point towards our goal of ensuring that all children and youth can access healthy food at school. With momentum building for a Canada-wide school food program, and with many provinces and territories making their own investments and developing programs, we have a collective...