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Opportunities and challenges for school food programs in Canada: Lessons from the United States
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Amberley T. Ruetz, Janet Poppendieck
As Canada works towards developing a national school food program, it is timely to examine the lessons learned from the programs of other countries. Analyzing these insights can help Canada avoid...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7739/?v=1
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Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Flora Zhang, Amberley T. Ruetz, Eric Ng
An overwhelming number of Canadians believe that a national school food program (SFP) would benefit children, but concerns around limited funding are frequently raised. SFPs across Canada are...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7720/?v=1
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SWFS - Crisis of legitimacy and challenges for food policy
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Mustafa Koç
Looking into the food system through the lens of food security, the first decade of the 21st Century was a period of broken promises, distrust, as well as fear and anxiety due to multiple crises in...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7635/?v=1
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Community Review: A little regulatory pluralism with your counter-hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Rod MacRae, Mark Winfield
Canadian food policy is deficient in many ways. First, there is neither national joined-up food policy, nor much supporting food policy architecture at the provincial and municipal levels. Second,...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7625/?v=1
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Constituting community through food charters: A rhetorical-genre analysis
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Philippa Spoel, Colleen Derkatch
Communities across Canada are increasingly developing food charters, with at least 22 regional charters published in Ontario alone. As a rhetorical genre, food charters are persuasive actions that...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7622/?v=1
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A food policy for Canada, but not just for Canadians: Reaping justice for migrant farm workers
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Anelyse M. Weiler
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7564/?v=1
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Closing the loop on Canada's National Food Policy: A food waste agenda
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Tammara Soma
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7563/?v=1
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Settler colonialism and the (im)possibilities of a national food policy
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sarah Rotz, Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz
In this perspectives piece we ask: is it possible for a national food policy to form the foundation for sustainable and equitable food systems in Canada? First, we argue that under the current...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7560/?v=1
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What about the other 50 percent of the Canadian population? Food allergies ignored in national policy plan
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Susan Elliott, Francesca Cardwell
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7565/?v=1
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Food for thought: How trade agreements impact the prospects for a national food policy
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Elizabeth Ann Smythe
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7553/?v=1
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Special issue on building an integrated Food Policy for Canada: An open letter to the Canadian food policy community
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Peter Andrée, Charles Z. Levkoe, Amanda Wilson
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7549/?v=1
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Integrative Governance for Ecological Public Health: An Analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019)
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Peter Andree, Patricia Ballamingie, Mary Coulas
Normatively grounded in the ecological public health paradigm, this paper speaks to the role of public policy in addressing food and nutrition-related health challenges through a critical analysis...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7483/?v=1
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FLEdGE (Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Alison Blay-Palmer
The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7475/?v=1
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Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets: The Case of Lake Superior
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Lowitt
The contribution of fisheries to food systems are largely absent from conceptions of sustainable food systems. At the root of this problem is that fisheries are often seen in terms of maximizing...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7476/?v=1
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Meaning as Motivator to Address Distancing in the Food System
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Karen Rideout
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7479/?v=1
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Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Levkoe, Patricia Ballamingie
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7474/?v=1
