The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributeur(s): Haroon Akram-Lodhi | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59

When global food prices spiked upwards in 2007, the popular press explained the spike, in part, by rising demand for meat in rapidly-growing ‘emerging markets’ such as India and South Africa. Such an explanation was palpably wrong: people in rich countries consume more than three times as much...

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributeur(s): Bradley C Hiebert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51

At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina...

Hedonistika-Montreal

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributeur(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.54

When food, art, and machines clash in a gallery you have Hedonistika. Part food and part robotic exhibition curators Simon Laroche and Jane Tingley tackle the connections between food and technology with the aesthetics of digital art. On offer was a 3D printer providing you with an edible...

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributeur(s): Rita Hansen Sterne | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.57

Food systems include many issues interconnected through complex relationships. Some writers examine one part of the food system in depth but—from my perspective as a management student—a strength of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat is that it examines food systems by systematically...

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.58

There is no shortage of books, magazines, lifestyle shows, and academic texts that have something to say about what, where, how, and with whom we should eat. In his book The Politics of the Pantry, Michael Mikulak critically engages with this storied food, a genre of literature, film, and new...

Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Geoff Tansey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

A long, long time ago, in a world where ‘free trade’ market fundamentalism was not the only economic religion, I helped start a journal called Food Policy—economics, planning and politics of food and agriculture. Well, actually, not that long ago, in the mid 1970s. It just seems a world away....

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Sarah J Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

It is hard to avoid the question of the future of food these days. Filmmakers, scholars, activists and book authors are fretting over what is to be done. Joining the fray is Dan Barber, ‘chef activist’ at Blue Hill Restaurant at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico...

Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Brady | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.46

When most of us think of Canadian history, particularly Canada’s involvement in the Second World War, it is unlikely that food is what first comes to mind. However, Ian Mosby’s new—and first—book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front, invites...

Alternative agrifood movements: Patterns of convergence and divergence by Douglas, H. Constance, Marie-Christine Renard, and Marta G. Rivera-Ferre (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Theresa Schumilas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.64

The introduction to this volume offers a concise overview of the history and state of AAFN scholarship, making it a great early read for newcomers to the field. Drawing together experiences of global South food justice movements and global North alternative food movements is welcomed and a...

Seasonal workers in Mediterranean agriculture: The social costs of eating fresh by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Anelyse Margaret Weiler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.61

One of the most common justifications for maintaining low-paid, precarious conditions for farm workers is that while farmers are being squeezed by globalized competition, economic turmoil and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, labour remains one of the few costs they can control....

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.)

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contributeur(s): Patrick Clark, Chantal Clément, Amanda DiVito Wilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.75

“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 agricultural production, the more these specific arrangements come into conflict with current global...

The no-nonsense guide to world food: New edition by Wayne Roberts

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contributeur(s): Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.74

For many, the world of food is complicated and riddled with confusion and misinformation. The food system has become so globalized and convoluted that it has become difficult for even the most conscientious reader or eater to feel adequately informed. Wayne Roberts’ No-Nonsense Guide to World...

Standards as a commons: Private agri-food standards as governance for the 99 percent

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.30

Private agri-food standards have emerged in response to the constraints imposed on the role of the state under the influence of neoliberalism. These standards reflect the ongoing ‘value wars’ between the money code of value and the life code of value (McMurtry 2002). While some private...

The art of natural cheesemaking by David Asher

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Christopher Yap | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.157

Cheese wasn’t designed. Cheeses were, and are, products of specific geographical, economic, ecological, and cultural circumstances. And so in the history of cheesemaking we see the history of agriculture, of trade, of places, and people. The countless cheeses—each made with only milk, rennet,...

Community Review: A little regulatory pluralism with your counter-hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Rod MacRae, Mark Winfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.60

Canadian food policy is deficient in many ways. First, there is neither national joined-up food policy, nor much supporting food policy architecture at the provincial and municipal levels. Second, there is no roadmap for creating such policy changes. And third, we don’t have an analytical...

Event Review of BPLTC III: Food Control

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.154

In Eastern Bloc’s recent exhibition BPLTC 111: Food Control new media artists use digital technologies as both a form of aesthetic presentation and a kind of mimicry to critique the technologically driven industrial food system. This exhibition was the last of a three-part exhibition on...

The gluten lie: And other myths about what you eat by Alan Levinovitz

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Brady | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.96

What nutrition buzzword is on the tip of more tongues than gluten? Today’s popular obsession with gluten, or gluten avoidance more precisely, has spurred a bevy of gluten-free products and cookbooks with recipes for items such as cauliflower pizza crust. The Canadian market for gluten free...

Changing the food game: Market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture by Lucas Simons

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Adam Sneyd | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.139

Experts in the area of new agricultural standards, codes, and certifications tend to hold strong perspectives on the reforms that they believe will transform unsustainable conventional farming practices. However, these important practitioner points of view infrequently make a big splash in...

Growing local: Case studies on local food supply chains by Robert P. King, Michael S. Hand, and Miguel I. Gomez (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Ryan Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.136

The local food movement in North America has grown significantly during the last decade, yet there still remains relatively little empirical research on the subject. Fortunately, however, the recent work Growing Local: Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains edited by Robert King, Michael...

Fat activism: A radical social movement by Charlotte Cooper

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Cassandra Kuyvenhoven | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.158

In Fat Activism, Cooper responds to mainstream and scholarly writings on fat activism that she claims create negative assumptions or “proxies” of fat people. These constructed proxies serve to efface, reduce, and oversimplify the voices and the lived experiences of fat activists and fat...