No syllabus, no problem: Let’s co-create a world of food, agriculture, and society

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Contributor(s): David Connell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.458

The intimate relation people have with food provides unique opportunities for teaching. In this field report, I will describe and reflect upon the method of student-centred learning I use in a first-year university course entitled Food, Agriculture & Society. The aim of the course is to...

A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Review | Contributor(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Essay | Contributor(s): Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.497

Food charters have been one means of mobilizing critical food guidance relevant discussions among stakeholders and policy makers in rural areas.  As actors in the rural food system of Grey and Bruce counties, we describe the counties' charter development led by the Food Security Action...

Negotiating farm femininity in agricultural leadership

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Braun, Ken Caine, Mary Anne Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.646

A growing number of women in the Canadian Prairie region are advancing into leadership roles in agriculture, which remains a predominantly male domain. In this research we explore how professionally and managerially employed women in agriculture in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and...

"As we fish and farm"

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Contributor(s): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.12

"As we fish and farm" is a short radio documentary that explores a changing food and fishing system in the Bonne Bay region on Newfoundland's west coast. It was developed as part of the interdisicplinary Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) project at Memorial University...

GFT - Global food trade

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.80

Few issues animate debate about the global food system as much as the role of international trade and, in particular, that of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Indeed, the WTO is a subject that polarizes debate among food scholars and activists. Some scholars see the WTO as imperfect but...

GFT - SYNTHESIS - The uneasy relationship between international trade and agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Kim Burnett | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.137

In his 2006 book, Food is Different, Peter Rosset posited we “get agriculture out of the [World Trade Organization] WTO”. This contention, which is the rallying cry for the Food Sovereignty movement, is that the WTO should not have any purview over agriculture and by extension food systems....

CRFA - Corporate role in food and agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.87

Transnational corporations are powerful agents on the global food landscape. They have been able to shift and adapt their activities in a global food economy that has been constantly in flux in recent decades, while at the same time shaping it in ways that serve their interests. The papers in...

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems by Henk de Zeeuw and Pay Drechsel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Review | Contributor(s): Zhenzhong Si, Jennifer Marshman, Simon Berge, Ning Dai, Tammara Soma, Bryan Dale, Karen Landman, John Bacher, Mashiur Rahman, Charles Z. Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.177

In an age when we are inundated with information, efforts that streamline that information—by sifting kernels of wheat from the chaff—are precious. Our reviews are intended to assist CFS readers faced with a growing body of material relevant to food studies. However, the standard book review...

Farm safety: A prerequisite for sustainable food production in Newfoundland and Labrador

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Article | Contributor(s): Lesley Butler, Ewa M. Dabrowska, Barbara Neis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.317

A sustainable approach to food production must address both environmental sustainability and the wellbeing of food producers. Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations globally with high rates of injury, fatality, and occupational disease. However, occupational hazards and the practices...