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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The good, the bad, and the ugly of COP26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Report | Contributor(s): Jessie MacInnis, Roz Corbett, Annette Desmarais | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.586

The 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP (Conference of Parties) took place in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 amidst intersecting global crises. The rising number and intensity of unprecedented extreme weather events in many countries, increased knowledge about...

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...

Hunger: How food shaped the course of the First World War

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Review | Contributor(s): Laurie Wadsworth | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.579

Blom’s thesis for the book involved the impact food supply had on the outcome of WWI. Information presented focused on food security of civilians and armed forces across nations. Detailed coverage of food production, distribution, storage and consumption is a strength of the book. Blom...

Band-aid solutions: Small business owners’ perspectives on a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Article | Contributor(s): Fareeha Quayyum, Andrea Bombak, Emma Robinson, Kelsey Mann, Krista Beck, Jeff LaPlante, Michael Champagne, Myra Tait, Riel Dubois, Natalie Riediger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.554

This qualitative study explores perceptions of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation among small business owners/managers (n=7) in Manitoba, Canada through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. Most participants believed the tax would be ineffective; they predicted the majority of...

Review of First we eat: Food sovereignty north of 60

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Review | Contributor(s): Catherine Littlefield, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.575

Suzanne Crocker’s 2020 film First we eat documents her and her family’s efforts to spend an entire year eating only food that can be grown, gathered, and hunted around Dawson City, Yukon, in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. Living 300 km south of the Arctic Circle, Crocker’s...

Characterizing the development and dissemination of dietary messaging in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Article | Contributor(s): Julia Gyapay, Sonja Ostertag, Sonia Wesche, Brian Laird, Kelly Skinner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.569

Public health communication about diet in Inuit communities must balance the benefits and risks associated with both country and store-bought food choices and processes to support Inuit well-being. An understanding of how dietary messages—public health communication addressing the health and...

A livelihood to feel good about: Enacting values around animals, land, and food outside of the agricultural core

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Article | Contributor(s): Elizabeh Finnis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.599

This paper presents and reflects on findings from ethnographic research conducted with small-scale farmers in the Parry Sound district, Ontario, Canada. The research highlights understandings of what it means to be a “good farmer” and explores how farmers enact their personal values and morals...

Barriers and supports to traditional food access in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Article | Contributor(s): Amy Grann, Liesel Carlsson, Kayla Mansfield-Brown | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.571

Canada is a signatory nation on international covenants, conventions, and declarations supporting the human right to food, but has not granted constitutional protection thereof. Failure to uphold the right to food contributes to unacceptably high levels of food insecurity that vary...

Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Essay | Contributor(s): Hana Mustapha, Sharai Masanganise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.563

As scholars and community activists, to secure a just food system, we must first acknowledge our complicity in hierarchal power structures that shape structural inequities by questioning the underlying socio-political currents and interrogating the dominant relationships within our food...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Essay | Contributor(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...