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Agrifood systems literacy: Insights from two high schools’ programs in Ontario
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Alicia Martin, Marie-Josée Massicotte
Following the increased industrialization and globalization of the prevailing agrifood system, researchers and practitioners have highlighted the detrimental impacts of this model on human health,...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7832/?v=1
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Looking back, looking forward: A field report on the Earth to Tables Legacies multimedia educational package
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Alexandra Gelis, Deborah Barndt
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7831/?v=1
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Reframing food as a commons in Canada: Learning from customary and contemporary Indigenous food initiatives that reflect a normative shift
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Jodi Koberinski, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Joseph LeBlanc
This paper interrogates the role of the dominant narrative of “food-as-commodity” in framing food systems policy in Canada. Human values shape policies, usually privileging those policies that are...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7813/?v=1
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Critical food guidance
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Ellen Desjardins, Jennifer Sumner
In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7806/?v=1
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Transformation or the next meal? : Global-local tensions in food justice work
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Elizabeth Vibert, Bikrum Singh Gill, Matt Murphy, Astrid Pérez Piñán, Claudia Puerta Silva
This article presents conversations across difference that took place among community partners and researchers at a week-long workshop in T’Sou-ke First Nation territory in 2019. The workshop...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7801/?v=1
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Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7796/?v=1
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‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Seay Fleming
Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation,...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7797/?v=1
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of COP26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Jessie MacInnis, Roz Corbett, Annette Desmarais
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7781/?v=1
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Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Hana Mustapha, Sharai Masanganise
As scholars and community activists, to secure a just food system, we must first acknowledge our complicity in hierarchal power structures that shape structural inequities by questioning the...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7769/?v=1
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Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz, Danielle Boissoneau, Terran Giacomini, Ayla Fenton, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Sarah Rotz
In this field notes section we explore our work as a collective of Indigenous and settler academics, food providers, and community-based organizers, including how we came together over several...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7768/?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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“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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Sovereignty of and through food: A decolonial feminist political ecology of Indigenous food sovereignty in Treaty 9
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Keira A. Loukes
“Food sovereignty,” a term conceived by peasant agriculturalists in South America, has become ubiquitous worldwide in academic and activist circles advocating for greater local control over local...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7724/?v=1
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Globalization and food sovereignty: Global and local change in the new politics of food by Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte (Eds.)
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Patrick Clark, Chantal Clément, Amanda DiVito Wilson
“To demand a space of food sovereignty is to demand specific arrangements to govern territory and space” (Patel, 2009, p. 667). However, the further we move into a globalized system of food and...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7694/?v=1
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SFSGEC - Peasant agriculture, seeds, and biodiversity
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Faris Ahmed
Farmers and food providers have created and maintained the knowledge and biodiversity that is the basis for the planet’s food supply for thousands of years. Yet seeds and biodiversity have been at...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7676/?v=1
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FS - From protest to policy: The challenges of institutionalizing food sovereignty
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Hannah Wittman
In response to the failure of current approaches to alleviate the linked challenges of global food insecurity and environmental degradation—many of which involve voluntary measures to improve...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7656/?v=1
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FS - Repeasantization, agroecology and the tactics of food sovereignty
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Blain Snipstal
From the dawn of the 21stcentury, we have seen and experienced at the global and local levels several severe world food crises, the advancement of global land grabbing and land speculation...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7655/?v=1
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FS - SYNTHESIS - The hefty challenges of food sovereignty’s adulthood
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Andrés García Trujillo
The three articles in this section reflect a broader shift that is taking place in the debate on food sovereignty. After almost two decades since its inception, the term—which is also a...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7657/?v=1
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FS - Food sovereignty
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
Citizens in many countries are increasingly wary of the global industrial neoliberal food system. A number of food scares, growing awareness of human rights abuses in the countryside, a global food...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7653/?v=1
