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...

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...

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...

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...

Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Essay | Contributor(s): Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.562

Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples. Traditional food access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss...

Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributor(s): Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.582

Home food gardening has seen a resurgence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the preliminary findings from the first 6 months of a 22-month home food gardening study in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participant home food gardeners were asked to log their weekly gardening...

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributor(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Article | Contributor(s): Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.637

The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern...

A review of food asset maps in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Belinda Li, Tammara Soma, Raghava Payment, Srishti Kumar, Nicole Anderson, Flora Xu, Phonpoom Piensatienkul | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.655

Food asset mapping is gaining prominence in Canada as an important planning tool for the evaluation of local food systems. In addition to being used by planners to identify opportunities for improved food security, food asset maps are also valuable references for sourcing food locally,...

"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...

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...

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...

GFT - Food security and international trade: Risk, trust and rules

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Sophia Murphy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.133

The multilateral trade system today shapes the economy of almost every country of the world. The World Trade Organization (WTO) now has 160 members, and even the non-members must deal with the rules the WTO has established when they trade. The system is ubiquitous yet faces serious challenges....

GFT - Food fight: What the debate about food security means at the WTO

2025-03-19 22:03:51 | Article | Contributor(s): Gawain Kripke | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.118

Although still experiencing significant levels of hunger and malnutrition, India has recently taken historic measures to improve food security, namely through the expansion of domestic food assistance programs. Under the Obama Administration, the U.S. has prioritized improving global food...

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...

PRF - Progress on the right to food

2025-03-19 22:03:50 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.79

The idea of the human right to food as a legal framework to address inequalities in the global food system has become increasingly mainstreamed at the level of political discourse and public policy. Indeed, claiming the right to food on the part of individuals and collectives is now firmly...

Greening Canada’s Arctic food system: Local food procurement strategies for combating food insecurity

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Report | Contributor(s): Angel Chen, David Natcher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.301

Across northern Canada community gardens and greenhouses are being used as alternatives to imported foods that are often unaffordable, are of compromised quality, or simply unavailable in local retail outlets. Community gardens and greenhouses are seen as part of the solution to lessen local...

Gleaning in the 21st Century: Urban food recovery and community food security in Ontario, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Article | Contributor(s): Jennifer Marshman, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.264

Historic gleaning activities in Europe took place in farmers’ fields where gleaners could collect the leftovers of the harvest. One of the primary motivations for modern gleaning in Canadian cities is to donate fresh food to local organizations such as food banks. As there is currently little...

“They hold on tight to the healthy eating, we hold on tight to our food safety, and how do we bridge that?”: determinants of successful collaboration between food safety and food security practitioners in British Columbia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Contributor(s): Kelsey A Speed, Samantha B Meyer, Rhona M Hanning, Karen Rideout, Melanie Kurrein, Shannon E Majowicz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.384

Food safety and food security are two important public health sectors within Canada, which aim to address foodborne disease and food insecurity, respectively.  While these sectors are often siloed within public health organizations, the actions of the two sectors often interact and...

Examining Local Food Procurement, Adaptive Capacities and Resilience to Environmental Change in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Contributor(s): Paulina Paige Ross, Courtney W Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.373

By exploring localized adaptation strategies for climate change, this paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of local perspectives and efforts regarding food procurement in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories (NT). The benefits and risks associated with engaging in local food...