Closing the loop on Canada's National Food Policy: A food waste agenda

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.314

In the near future, Canada will be implementing a national food policy; in doing so, it will be joining a growing number of countries with policies and strategies that address the growing problem of food waste. Food waste is a major economic drain estimated to cost Canada $31 billion dollars...

A food policy for Canada, but not just for Canadians: Reaping justice for migrant farm workers

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Anelyse M. Weiler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.312

In this policy commentary, I highlight opportunities to advance equity and dignity for racialized migrant workers from less affluent countries who are hired through low-wage agricultural streams of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Core features of the program such as 'tied' work...

What about the other 50 percent of the Canadian population? Food allergies ignored in national policy plan

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Susan Elliott, Francesca Cardwell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.326

Food allergy is a growing public health epidemic in Canada, affecting 50 percent of Canadian households either directly or indirectly. Despite the physical, psychosocial and quality of life impacts to those affected, food allergy has recently been ignored in the Canadian policy context. While...

Food for thought: How trade agreements impact the prospects for a national food policy

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Article | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.282

This article examines the prospect for a national food policy through the lens of trade agreements and the concept of policy space. It traces the shrinking of domestic policy space in recent decades as a result of trade agreements. Advocates such as Food Secure Canada seek a “coherent” food...

Special issue on building an integrated Food Policy for Canada: An open letter to the Canadian food policy community

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Essay | Contributor(s): Peter Andrée, Charles Z. Levkoe, Amanda Wilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.335

This editorial introduces the special issue of Canadian Food Studies, “Building an integrated Food Policy for Canada”. In a letter to the food policy community, the guest editors assert that the federal government’s development of a Food Policy for Canada will be just the beginning. Many...

Meaning as Motivator to Address Distancing in the Food System

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributor(s): Karen Rideout | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.442

Distancing in the food system prevents people from having full knowledge and making informed choices about what and how they produce, exchange, prepare, and eat food. This becomes problematic when the dominant industrial food system contributes to myriad negative human health, ecological, and...