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A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7807/?v=1
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Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7792/?v=1
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The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Syma Habib
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7794/?v=1
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COVID-19: First wave impacts on the Charitable Food Sector in Manitoba, Canada
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Joyce Slater, Natalie Riediger, Bhanu Pilli, Kelsey Mann, Hannah Derksen, Avery L. Penner, Chantal Perchotte
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7782/?v=1
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Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7767/?v=1
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Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7762/?v=1
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“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7757/?v=1
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Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7751/?v=1
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A review of food asset maps in Canada
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Belinda Li, Tammara Soma, Raghava Payment, Srishti Kumar, Nicole Anderson, Flora Xu, Phonpoom Piensatienkul
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7727/?v=1
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"As we fish and farm"
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Lowitt
"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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7714/?v=1
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Serious hunger games: Increasing awareness about food security in Canada through digital games
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Una Lee, Stephanie Fisher
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7691/?v=1
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Social economic organizations tackling food insecurity amid a booming economy: The development of the Good Food Junction Cooperative in Saskatoon, SK
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Josie Steeves
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7692/?v=1
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GFT - Food fight: What the debate about food security means at the WTO
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Gawain Kripke
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7644/?v=1
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GFT - Food security and international trade: Risk, trust and rules
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sophia Murphy
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7645/?v=1
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GFT - Global food trade
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7643/?v=1
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PRF - Progress on the right to food
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7638/?v=1
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Greening Canada’s Arctic food system: Local food procurement strategies for combating food insecurity
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Angel Chen, David Natcher
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7547/?v=1
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Gleaning in the 21st Century: Urban food recovery and community food security in Ontario, Canada
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Marshman, Steffanie Scott
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7545/?v=1
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Examining Local Food Procurement, Adaptive Capacities and Resilience to Environmental Change in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Paulina Paige Ross, Courtney W Mason
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,...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7509/?v=1
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“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
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kelsey A Speed, Samantha B Meyer, Rhona M Hanning, Karen Rideout, Melanie Kurrein, Shannon E Majowicz
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7510/?v=1
