Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Article | Contributeur(s): Flora Zhang, Amberley T. Ruetz, Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.681

An overwhelming number of Canadians believe that a national school food program (SFP) would benefit children, but concerns around limited funding are frequently raised. SFPs across Canada are struggling to meet increasing demands due to rising food costs, meaning that food quality and quantity...

Reimagining recipes for food studies: Enriching—not spoiling—the broth

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Article | Contributeur(s): Stephanie Chartrand, Laurence Hamel-Charest, Raihan Hassen, Anson Hunt, noura nasser, Kelsey Speakman, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.678

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 annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS). Assessing current...

Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Report | Contributeur(s): Alissa Overend, Ronak Rai | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649

In this reflexive piece, the authors consider the unexpected lessons learned while undertaking a collaborative research project with their home institution’s Indigenous Learning Centre on urban berry foraging. The faculty member questions the ethics of settlers undertaking this work, even if...

Food by Jennifer Clapp

2025-03-19 22:04:02 | Review | Contributeur(s): Christopher Yordy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.36

The economic shocks witnessed at the time of the global food price crisis of 2008 were a stress test for governance mechanisms in the global food economy. As the decisions at the top of the largest transnational food corporations are often shrouded in secrecy, the associated patterns of...

The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Contributeur(s): Erin Maureen Pratley, Belinda Dodson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.22

The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies. In this research, we used interviews and observation to determine how the differing valuations of...

Transitions Stream: Do trade agreements substantially limit development of local / sustainable food systems in Canada?

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Contributeur(s): Rod MacRae | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.25

A common view in policy and business circles is that certain elements of trade agreements (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade rules, the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture, and the North American Free Trade Agreement) and the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade significantly...

Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Report | Contributeur(s): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13

This narrative presents refections on the role of the food studies researcher from the prespective of a new academic with a background in community and policy work. It details a multi-phased, mixed methods case study on the public policy relations of infant food insecurity in Canada and...

"As we fish and farm"

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Contributeur(s): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.12

"As we fish and farm" is a short radio documentary that explores a changing food and fishing system in the Bonne Bay region on Newfoundland's west coast. It was developed as part of the interdisicplinary Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) project at Memorial University...

Growing Resistance by Emily Eaton

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Review | Contributeur(s): Taarini Chopra | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38

The short history of genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada has been defined by controversy, debates about health and environmental concerns, and deeply entrenched corporate control. The past fifteen years have seen numerous approvals of new GM crop varieties, while just a handful have been...

The Industrial Diet by Anthony Winson

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Review | Contributeur(s): Julie Pilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.41

Anthony Winson, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, has written or co-authored several books that explore agriculture, food and the food system in both North and Central America. These books include: Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica...

Gastronomie québécoise et patrimoine edited by Marie-Noëlle Aubertin and Geneviève Sicotte

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Review | Contributeur(s): Gwenaëlle Reyt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.40

Comment le Québec est-il passé d’une identité culinaire quasi inexistante à une valorisation sociale importante de sa cuisine? Comment le pâté chinois et la poutine, l’agneau de Charlevoix et la volaille Chantecler de tradition ou encore le temps des sucres sont-ils devenus des emblèmes...

Notes from the Nanaimo bar trail

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Article | Contributeur(s): Lenore Lauri Newman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.11

Archival work suggests that the Nanaimo bar is based on a recipe for unbaked chocolate cake published in the Vancouver Sun in 1947 and republished in 1948. The bar itself was likely developed by a member or members of the Nanaimo Hospital Auxiliary, and the first known recipe was published in...

Life of Bryan: Working the magic of sustainable food's sweet spot

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Article | Contributeur(s): Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.39

Bryan Gilvesy is one of Canada’s most-recognized farm innovators, as well as one of the country’s best-known leaders of the food movement. That combination is unusual in any region or country—one of the ways that Gilvesy exemplifies both the hallmarks of the food movement in Canada, as well as...

Building Effective Relationships for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Food Studies

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Article | Contributeur(s): Peter Andrée, Dayna Chapman, Louisa Hawkins, Cathleen Kneen, Wanda Martin, Christina Muehlberger, Connie Nelson, Katherine Pigott, Wajma Qaderi-Attayi, Steffanie Scott, Mirella Stroink | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.19

How can community-engaged scholars best undertake grounded, policy-relevant, food systems research and teaching in ways that support the capacity of—and meaningfully build on—the experiences of civil society organizations working on these issues in Canada? This paper analyzes four case studies...

Against the Odds: The Survival of Traditional Food Knowledge in a Rural Alberta Community

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Article | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Braun, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.21

The globalization and industrialization of the agri-food system has been linked to declining knowledge and skills in the general population related to growing, preserving and cooking food. In rural communities, loss of this knowledge and associated culture and traditions has been further...

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | 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...

Hedonistika-Montreal

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | 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...

The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Review | 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...

Voices and visuals from the Canadian foodscape

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.43

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, the open-access, online journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies/l’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CAFS/ACÉA). Our journal arrives on the scene in the...