Looking back, looking forward: A field report on the Earth to Tables Legacies multimedia educational package

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Contributor(s): Alexandra Gelis, Deborah Barndt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.465

The Earth to Tables Legacies Project emerged in 2015, growing out of personal relationships, but also built on a long trajectory of participatory research, multimedia arts production and popular education. We created an intergenerational and intercultural exchange of food activists working for...

Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Culinary Food Studies Bachelor’s Degree

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Contributor(s): Caitlin Michelle Scott, Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.463

Although Food Studies has been acknowledged as a distinctive field in Canada for almost two decades, until now there has not been an undergraduate degree in Food Studies in this country. This is changing with the development of Canada’s first Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Food Studies (BFS) at...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | 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...

Etuaptmumk - two-eyed seeing: Bringing together land-based learning and online technology to teach Indigenous youth about food

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Contributor(s): Renee Bujold, Ann Fox, Kerry Propser, Kara Pictou, Debbie Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.466

In 2019 we began an intergenerational Land-based learning program with the goal of engaging a group of Mi’kmaw youth from a rural community in Nova Scotia with their Traditional Foodways. When COVID-19 and the physical distancing restrictions hit Nova Scotia, however, this changed how we...

Decolonizing the learning of sitopias in Toronto: The case of the Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributor(s): Chloe Kavcic, Andrea Moraes, Lina Rahouma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.469

The Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge is a pilot experiential learning activity created at Ryerson University for the class FNU100-Canadian Cuisine: Historical Roots, a first/second year liberal studies course offered to students from diverse programs and cultural backgrounds. This...

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

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

Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Contributor(s): Alissa Overend, Ronak Rai | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649

In this reflexive piece, the authors consider the unexpected lessons learned while undertaking a collaborative research project with their home institution’s Indigenous Learning Centre on urban berry foraging. The faculty member questions the ethics of settlers undertaking this work, even if...

Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Contributor(s): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13

This narrative presents refections on the role of the food studies researcher from the prespective of a new academic with a background in community and policy work. It details a multi-phased, mixed methods case study on the public policy relations of infant food insecurity in Canada and...

From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contributor(s): Kristin Burnett, Kelly Skinner, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.62

This paper is a critique of the report released on 25 November 2014 by the Auditor General of Canada (AG), Michael Ferguson, on Nutrition North Canada (NNC), a subsidy program designed to lower the cost of “perishable nutritious food” in northern communities. We argue that the situation is far...

Serious hunger games: Increasing awareness about food security in Canada through digital games

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | 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...

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 | 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...

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 | 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...

Healthy Roots: Building capacity through shared stories rooted in Haudenosaunee knowledge to promote Indigenous foodways and well-being

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributor(s): Kelly Gordon, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Hannah Tait Neufeld | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.210

Urban and reserve-based First Nation families in southern Ontario frequently experience food insecurity as well as more limited access to traditional, more nutrient dense foods from the local environment. Healthy Roots was initiated in the community of Six Nations to promote traditional food...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | 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...

Disruptive innovation and operationalization in local and sustainable food systems: Examining the University of Toronto-Local Food Plus partnership

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Contributor(s): Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.269

This paper traces the partnership between the University of Toronto and the non-profit Local Food Plus (LFP) to bring local sustainable food to its St. George campus. At its launch, the partnership represented the largest purchase of local sustainable food at a Canadian university, as well as...

Creating a local food procurement community of practice: The Alberta Flavour Learning Lab

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Contributor(s): Mary Anne Beckie, Leanne Hedberg, Jessie Radies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.267

In order for local food initiatives (LFIs) to have a transformative effect on the larger food system, greater levels of economic, organizational and physical scale are needed. One way for LFIs to reach the scale necessary to generate a more significant impact is through increased institutional...

Uncovering hidden urban bounty: A case study of Hidden Harvest

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Contributor(s): Chloé Poitevin DesRivières | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.354

Urban food systems primarily rely on foods grown in rural spaces, and often face challenges in creating spaces to grow fresh, healthful and affordable food in cities. Urban food harvest organizations aim to overcome these challenges by locating and harvesting food that already exists in cities...

Who are the cattails? Stories of Algonquin Anishinaabe Food Systems

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

Réponses à l’intelligence artificielle

2025-01-14 00:53:15 | Contributor(s): Brittany Amell | https://doi.org/10.25547/0518-EG90

Les rapports “Policy Insights and Signals” scrutent l’horizon afin d’identifier et d’analyser les tendances émergentes et les signaux précurseurs susceptibles d’influer sur les orientations politiques futures en matière de libre...