“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Contributeur(s): André Magnan, Mengistu Wendimu, Annette Desmarais, Katherine Aske | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.518

This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the...

COVID-19: First wave impacts on the Charitable Food Sector in Manitoba, Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Contributeur(s): Joyce Slater, Natalie Riediger, Bhanu Pilli, Kelsey Mann, Hannah Derksen, Avery L. Penner, Chantal Perchotte | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.551

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 vulnerable populations, as well as many who had not been previously food insecure, placing unprecedented...

Band-aid solutions: Small business owners’ perspectives on a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:13:02 | Contributeur(s): Fareeha Quayyum, Andrea Bombak, Emma Robinson, Kelsey Mann, Krista Beck, Jeff LaPlante, Michael Champagne, Myra Tait, Riel Dubois, Natalie Riediger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.554

This qualitative study explores perceptions of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation among small business owners/managers (n=7) in Manitoba, Canada through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. Most participants believed the tax would be ineffective; they predicted the majority of...

Characterizing the development and dissemination of dietary messaging in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Contributeur(s): Julia Gyapay, Sonja Ostertag, Sonia Wesche, Brian Laird, Kelly Skinner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.569

Public health communication about diet in Inuit communities must balance the benefits and risks associated with both country and store-bought food choices and processes to support Inuit well-being. An understanding of how dietary messages—public health communication addressing the health and...

A livelihood to feel good about: Enacting values around animals, land, and food outside of the agricultural core

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Contributeur(s): Elizabeh Finnis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.599

This paper presents and reflects on findings from ethnographic research conducted with small-scale farmers in the Parry Sound district, Ontario, Canada. The research highlights understandings of what it means to be a “good farmer” and explores how farmers enact their personal values and morals...

Barriers and supports to traditional food access in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)

2025-03-19 22:13:01 | Contributeur(s): Amy Grann, Liesel Carlsson, Kayla Mansfield-Brown | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.571

Canada is a signatory nation on international covenants, conventions, and declarations supporting the human right to food, but has not granted constitutional protection thereof. Failure to uphold the right to food contributes to unacceptably high levels of food insecurity that vary...

“Eating is a hustle”: The complex realities of food in federal prison

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributeur(s): Amanda Wilson, Julie Courchesne, Ghassan Zahran | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.607

Juxtaposing insights from the academic literature with those drawn from lived experience, this Perspective article explores the role of food in federal prisons in Canada. Highlighting its multiple meanings and uses, we underscore the complexity of food in prison as well as its fundamental...

Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributeur(s): Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.582

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 Nova Scotia, Canada. Participant home food gardeners were asked to log their weekly gardening...

Food system resilience during COVID-19: The role of local producers in rural Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributeur(s): Kelli Weinkauf, Tracy Everitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.594

Over the last 70 years, Canadian agriculture has shifted from many small farms that supplied local residents, to fewer large farms designed to maximize production, reduce cost, and target international markets. At present, small local food chains exist as a small fraction of the Canadian food...

“This brings meaning and purpose to the lessons:” : Teachers’ and facilitators’ perspectives on the joys and challenges of school garden programs in south-eastern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributeur(s): Janette Haase, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.600

School garden programs (SGPs) offer students opportunities to experience and participate in the processes of nature and agriculture through hands-on learning in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Although the value of school gardens has been well documented, there is little-to-no concrete...

Cohérence des interventions gouvernementales pour prévenir l’insécurité alimentaire des ménages : Le cas du Québec

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Contributeur(s): Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme, Laurence Bastien, Etienne-Yusufu Kachaka, Laurence Godin, Laure Saulais, Ibrahima Bocoum | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.606

In Quebec, food insecurity is a public health issue. Despite the support of several ministries to community and private organizations fighting against food insecurity, it persists and has worsened with the pandemic of COVID-19. This article analyzes the coherence of government policies and...

Transitioning to a public-minded food system: Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communities

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contributeur(s): Matilda Dipieri | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.611

A vision for a more sustainable, just, and health-promoting food system comes from scholars, activist organizations, and communities alike. However, creating infrastructure and implementing policy that allows for the transition to a healthy, community-minded system comes with significant...

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contributeur(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

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 security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Contributeur(s): Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.637

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 informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern...

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Contributeur(s): Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Oleg Lavriv, Mary Beckie, Maria Mayan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.627

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying...

Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Contributeur(s): Sarah Elton, Evan Fraser, Ruth Siew | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.626

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many warned that the resilience of the global, industrial food system would be tested. We conducted regular interviews in 2020 with key actors at the Ontario Food Terminal, North America’s third largest produce wholesale market, to better understand...

Le territoire agroalimentaire en tant qu’attrait touristique au Québec: Réflexion à l’égard des représentations d’une destination gourmande à partir du concept de terroir

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(s): Ronaldo Tavares de Souza, Pascale Marcotte, Laurent Bourdeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.612

Terroir products are characterized by the uniqueness of the territory where they are produced. This uniqueness is used to promote them, but it may also serve to trigger the interest of individuals in this territory. Starting in Europe and linked to wine, the concept of terroir is expanding all...

Food insecurity in books for children: A qualitative content analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Contributeur(s): Dian Day | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654

Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of...

Opportunities and challenges for school food programs in Canada: Lessons from the United States

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Contributeur(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Janet Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.665

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 key pitfalls and replicate promising practices in program design and implementation. The...

Envisioning a community food hub to support food security: A community engagement process at a post-secondary institute

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Contributeur(s): Sarah Clement, Sara Kozicky, Cassandra Hamilton, Rachel Murphy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.645

Objective: The objective of this community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) project was to gain an in-depth understanding of the needs, interest and opportunities that exist within a post-secondary institution with respect to supporting food security among students via a food hub....