Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Contributeur(s): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

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 degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

Enacting just food futures through the state: evidence from Brazil

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Contributeur(s): Ricardo Barbosa, Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.540

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have...

Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Contributeur(s): Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.521

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 this Perspective essay, we consider how farm industry lobbying successfully framed delays to...

Reformist, progressive, radical: The case for an inclusive alliance

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Contributeur(s): Janet Elizabeth Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.534

Scholars of food regimes and food movements have argued that the capacity of the contemporary food movement to achieve significant change is dependent upon the nature of the alliances formed by the progressive, food justice component of the broader array of food change organizations. They have...

The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Contributeur(s): Syma Habib | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.538

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 amongst Canadians. Rising food prices and unemployment will drive a lack of access to fresh...

An unconditional basic income is necessary but insufficient to transition towards just food futures

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributeur(s): Elaine Power, Aric McBay | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.533

In food systems scholarship, the case for basic income to reduce food insecurity is well-established. Less well-appreciated is the potential for basic income to support young farmers, improve rural vitality, promote gender equality and racial justice in agriculture, and assist farmers in...

Towards Just Food Futures: Divergent approaches and possibilities for collaboration across difference

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributeur(s): Marit Rosol, Eric Holt-Giménez, Lauren Kepkiewicz, Elizabeth Vibert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.598

The call for Just Food Futures reflects a desire to address social inequities, health disparities, and environmental disasters created by overlapping systems of oppression including capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. While many food movement actors share a desire to...

Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Contributeur(s): Debbie Field, Carolyn Webb | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.618

We’re at a tipping point towards our goal of ensuring that all children and youth can access healthy food at school. With momentum building for a Canada-wide school food program, and with many provinces and territories making their own investments and developing programs, we have a collective...

“Dismantling the structures and sites that create unequal access to food:” : Paul Taylor and Elaine Power in conversation about food justice

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributeur(s): Paul Taylor, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.567

In the summer of 2019, Elaine Power, Professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University, interviewed Paul Taylor for a research project on community food programs. Paul, a Black man, is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto and an anti-poverty activist. In...

Ethnic food practices, health, and cultural racism: Diabetes risk discourse among racialized immigrants in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributeur(s): Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.548

Type 2 diabetes is more prevalent among racialized immigrant groups in Canada compared to the general population. Hence, “ethnicity” is identified as a risk factor for diabetes, focusing on ethnic differences in health behaviours. By linking ethnic differences and diabetes risk, ethnic food...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributeur(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...

Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributeur(s): Hana Mustapha, Sharai Masanganise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.563

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 underlying socio-political currents and interrogating the dominant relationships within our food...

Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(s): Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.562

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 access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss...

Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(s): Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz, Danielle Boissoneau, Terran Giacomini, Ayla Fenton, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Sarah Rotz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.565

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 plates of nachos and a shared vision of deepening our relationships to land rooted in...

Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(s): Leticia Ama Deawuo, Michael Classens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.631

The impetus for this themed section came out of the broader reckoning that touched off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The Canadian Association for Food Studies board, like so many organizations struggling to respond to such brazen violence, released a...

Transition, coherence, resilience and joy

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Contributeur(s): Canadian Food Studies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.652

These four nouns are taken out of the article titles on offer in this issue. Uncover within the systemic transitions taking place, the coherence required, the resilience that has emerged, and the joy that may be found in food production, distribution and consumption. With this issue also comes...

A window, a mountain, a scape

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(s): L. Sasha Gora | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.676

Is cell-based meat a climate solution for Canada? : Interpreting lifecycle footprints within the domestic agri-food context

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributeur(s): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.629

Interest and technological know-how in cell-based meat production has grown tremendously in recent years. The appeal is wide ranging, but two main drivers include: i) the possibility of producing edible meat without requiring the slaughter of sentient animals; and ii) the potential to...

Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributeur(s): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.632

This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize these regulations at the global level to facilitate international trade have proven to be...

Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributeur(s): Kelsey Speakman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638

Flexitarianism was one of the top food trends of the summer in 2020. Characterizing reductions in meat eating as representative of the reflections on personal and societal health that were taking place at the time, Canada’s largest food retailer, Loblaw situated the company’s expanded...