From tensions to transformation: Teaching food systems in a graduate dietetics course

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Contributor(s): Eric Ng, Donald C Cole | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.462

Dietitians are deeply embedded within food systems, so food systems concepts are becoming an essential component of dietetic education in Canada. Yet how can we, as educators, better prepare future dietitians to embrace the complexity of food systems and be forces of change towards...

Critical reflections on "humane" meat and plant-based meat "alternatives"

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contributor(s): Wesley Tourangeau, Caitlin Michelle Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.510

Canadians are among the top meat consumers in the world. Greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, animal stress and suffering, worker health and safety, and cardiovascular disease are among the multitude of issues tied to high rates of meat consumption. In response to rising concern and...

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...

Reimagining recipes for food studies: Enriching—not spoiling—the broth

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Article | Contributor(s): Stephanie Chartrand, Laurence Hamel-Charest, Raihan Hassen, Anson Hunt, noura nasser, Kelsey Speakman, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.678

This perspective is a continuation of a conversation started during “Reimagining Food, Food Systems, and Food Studies,” a plenary session in which we, the authors, participated at the eighteenth annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS). Assessing current...

Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | Essay | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.103

The global food landscape is changing rapidly. In 2007–08 food prices soared and remained volatile in the following years, effectively leading to a world food crisis that drove tens of millions of people into poverty and hunger. A phenomenal increase in large-scale farmland acquisitions in...

Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Review | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.215

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Insights from the Think&EatGreen@School Project: How a community-based action research project contributed to healthy and sustainable school food systems in Vancouver

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Report | Contributor(s): Alejandro Rojas, Jennifer Black, Elena Orrego, Gwen Chapman, Will Valley | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.225

From 2010 to 2016 the Think&EatGreen@School project worked to create healthy and sustainable school food systems in the Vancouver School Board. Using models of Community-Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Action Research, we implemented diverse programmatic and monitoring activities...

The need for contextual, place-based food policies: Lessons from Northwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Article | Contributor(s): Connie Nelson, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel Kakegamic | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.327

In recent years, several reports have highlighted the need for a national food policy that takes a comprehensive approach to addressing food systems (CAC, 2014; Levkoe & Sheedy, 2017; Martorell, 2017; UNGA, 2012). These findings suggest that, at the core, resilient food systems must be...

Food Counts: Food systems report cards, food sovereignty and the politics of indicators

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.277

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recognized that "current systems will be held in place insofar as these systems continue to be measured in terms of what industrial agriculture is designed to deliver, at the expense of many other outcomes that really matter in...

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...

A perspective on social economy and food systems: Key insights and thoughts on future research

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Article | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens, Connie Nelson, Charles Levkoe, Phil Mount, Irena Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer, Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.355

For a concept that was largely outside of the public gaze a decade ago, “social economy” has, in a short time, captured the attention and imaginations of civil society organizations, mainstream institutions, and funders. Local and national governments, international agencies and foundations...

The Value in Community Gardens: A Return on Investment Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contributor(s): Susie Cochran, Leia Minaker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.332

Food production in cities is increasingly regarded as one of the building blocks for sustainable urban living, particularly as the agricultural industry faces mounting ecological and economic constraints, and populations continue to concentrate in urban centers. While substantial research...

Who are the cattails? Stories of Algonquin Anishinaabe Food Systems

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Report | Contributor(s): Samantha Kaitlyn Patterson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.474

This narrative illustrates my evolving ontological and epistemological relations with food systems on Algonquin territory as an Algonquin woman and a registered dietitian. As dietitians, we study the function of food within our human bodies, but do not think about the who behind our...

Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.443

Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of...

Modularity in Intersectoral Research/Action Collaborations for Food Systems Transformation: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Network: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Research Collaborative

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, David Szanto, Nii A. Addy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.431

How can academics and community practitioners better collaborate to overcome the existing barriers? What role can intersectoral research collaboratives play in supporting, enhancing, and sustaining the impact of community-engaged research? In response to these broad questions, this paper...

Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Levkoe, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.515

Wayne Roberts (1944–2021) was a food systems thinker, public intellectual, and “actionist.” This text was developed from a series of oral history interviews conducted between December 2020 and January 2021. It touches upon several of the key themes Wayne addressed during the interviews:...

Food pedagogy for transformative social change

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Article | Contributor(s): Chelsea Klinke, Gertrude Korkor Samar | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.485

The contemporary global agrarian regime has altered the patterns of food production, circulation, and consumption. Its efforts towards food security vis-á-vis capitalist modes of mechanized cultivation have produced large-scale climatic and socioeconomic ramifications, including the...