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From tensions to transformation: Teaching food systems in a graduate dietetics course
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Eric Ng, Donald C Cole
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7829/?v=1
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Reimagining recipes for food studies: Enriching—not spoiling—the broth
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Stephanie Chartrand, Laurence Hamel-Charest, Raihan Hassen, Anson Hunt, noura nasser, Kelsey Speakman, David Szanto
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7721/?v=1
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Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7632/?v=1
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Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Phoebe Stephens
No abstract required (book review).
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7605/?v=1
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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
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Alejandro Rojas, Jennifer Black, Elena Orrego, Gwen Chapman, Will Valley
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7589/?v=1
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The need for contextual, place-based food policies: Lessons from Northwestern Ontario
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Connie Nelson, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel Kakegamic
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;...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7562/?v=1
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Food Counts: Food systems report cards, food sovereignty and the politics of indicators
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Z. Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7552/?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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A perspective on social economy and food systems: Key insights and thoughts on future research
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Phoebe Stephens, Connie Nelson, Charles Levkoe, Phil Mount, Irena Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer, Mary Anne Martin
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7521/?v=1
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The Value in Community Gardens: A Return on Investment Analysis
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Susie Cochran, Leia Minaker
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7515/?v=1
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Who are the cattails? Stories of Algonquin Anishinaabe Food Systems
19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):
By Samantha Kaitlyn Patterson
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7488/?v=1
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Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7478/?v=1
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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
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Z Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, David Szanto, Nii A. Addy
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7477/?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
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Food pedagogy for transformative social change
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Chelsea Klinke, Gertrude Korkor Samar
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...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/7468/?v=1
