Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Article | Contributeur(s): Harriet Friedmann | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.35

I have been thinking for a while now about the intriguing concept of foodshed in changing urban food regions. As the world becomes more urban, North and South, new fora, such as the International Urban Food Network—with the Toronto Food Policy Council as partner—reflect this shift of...

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 | Review | 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....

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 | Review | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | 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...

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | 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...

Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | 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 Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Review | 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...

Campus gardens: Food production or sense of place?

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Article | Contributeur(s): Natalee Ridgeway, June Matthews | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.23

Campus gardens can provide opportunities for experiential learning and enhanced physical and mental health; however, they require substantial commitments of time, money, and effort. This formative evaluation explored the perspectives of a university population on the establishment of a campus...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | 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...

From Food Mail to Nutrition North Canada: Reconsidering federal food subsidy programs for northern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributeur(s): Kristin Burnett, Kelly Skinner, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.62

This paper is a critique of the report released on 25 November 2014 by the Auditor General of Canada (AG), Michael Ferguson, on Nutrition North Canada (NNC), a subsidy program designed to lower the cost of “perishable nutritious food” in northern communities. We argue that the situation is far...

Serious hunger games: Increasing awareness about food security in Canada through digital games

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributeur(s): Una Lee, Stephanie Fisher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.44

Digital games are becoming increasingly common knowledge transfer media. So-called "serious games" or "games for good" have attracted academic, industry, and mainstream attention through the proliferation of conferences, journals, blogs, and online communities. They offer what few other...

Social economic organizations tackling food insecurity amid a booming economy: The development of the Good Food Junction Cooperative in Saskatoon, SK

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Report | Contributeur(s): Josie Steeves | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.49

Food insecurity is a phenomenon found around the world, including in developed countries that enjoy a large portion of the world’s wealth. Although the economy of the Canadian province Saskatchewan is currently ‘booming’, a large food desert still existed in one low-income area of the city of...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:57 | Review | 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...

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 | Review | 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...

GFG - SYNTHESIS - Thinking forward in global food governance

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Michelle Metzger | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.120

Global food governance is ever evolving as political leaders become increasingly aware of the complexity and dynamic nature of managing the global food system in a sustainable manner. Calls for reform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the early 2000s...

“Ways of knowing” in food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.76

What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these questions at CAFS 2014, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies. The authors...

Borders, boundaries, and becoming food studies: Looking back, pushing forward

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Brady, Charles Z Levkoe, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.56

On May 25, 2014, at the ninth annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), we (the authors) organized a plenary panel that assembled a number of leading food scholars from across North America to reflect on the current state of food studies. This commentary brings...

Life of Bryan: Working the magic of sustainable food's sweet spot, Part 2

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.69

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...

Land grabbing and land concentration: Mapping changing patterns of farmland ownership in three rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Darrin Qualman, André Magnan, Nettie Wiebe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.52

Since the 2007-2008 global food crisis there is growing interest in changing patterns of farmland ownership. Utilizing a dataset of the names of all farmland titleholders along with GIS data mapping software, this article demonstrates changes in patterns of land ownership in three rural...

Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.29

This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of land in growing urban areas with a view to profiting from re-zoning and exiting the market well...