From contracts to culture: Exploring how to leverage local, sustainable food purchasing by institutions for food systems change

2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Review | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Reynolds, Beth Hunter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.285

In recent years, certain hospitals, schools, and campuses across Canada have shown that they can transform their practices to serve more local and sustainable food. These changes have often been led by visionary champions, and in some cases aided by supportive public policies or programs. Yet...

Introduction to the special issue on food procurement

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner, Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.350

A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat by Eric Holt-Giménez

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Review | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.329

Book Review.

Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? by Philip H. Howard

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Review | Contributeur(s): Chloé Poitevin-DesRivières | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.209

book review

The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Review | Contributeur(s): Meredith Bessey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.364

Book Review

The role of alcohol in Canadian family food practices: Commensality, identity, and everyday tastes

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Article | Contributeur(s): Brent Hammer, Helen Vallianatos | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.334

The authors use an anthropological lens to examine the role of alcoholic beverages and their consumption within everyday food practices of contemporary Canadian families. Anthropology and anthropologists have a long history of interest and fascination in the ceremonial and ritual use of...

Farm safety: A prerequisite for sustainable food production in Newfoundland and Labrador

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Article | Contributeur(s): Lesley Butler, Ewa M. Dabrowska, Barbara Neis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.317

A sustainable approach to food production must address both environmental sustainability and the wellbeing of food producers. Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations globally with high rates of injury, fatality, and occupational disease. However, occupational hazards and the practices...

Food Network’s food-career frenzy? An examination of students’ motivations to attend culinary school

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Article | Contributeur(s): Ryan Whibbs, Mark Holmes | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.255

This research presents the findings of a year long study, undertaken between 2016 and 2017, seeking to understand the degree to which students are influenced to attend culinary school by food medias, social media, and the Food Network. The notion that food medias draw the majority of new cooks...

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:31 | Article | Contributeur(s): Shailesh Shukla, Jazmin Alfaro, Carol Cochrane, Cindy Garson, Gerald Mason, Jason Dyck, Brielle Beudin-Reimer, Janna Barkman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.218

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian...

Honouring the grandmothers through (re)membering, (re)learning, and (re)vitalizing Métis traditional foods and protocols

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Article | Contributeur(s): Monica Cyr, Joyce Slater | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.339

In Canada, Métis cultural restoration continues to advance. Food practices and protocols, from the vantage point of Métis women who were traditionally responsible for domestic work, qualify as important subjects worthy of study because food and food work are integral components of family...

Supply management and the business activities of Ontario meat processors

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Article | Contributeur(s): Rita Hansen Sterne, Erna van Duren | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.290

Canadian supply management policies in dairy, poultry and eggs have been hotly debated for over 50 years. During the most recent renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2017-2018, the U.S. threatened to cancel NAFTA if concessions were not made to Canada’s supply...

Culinary tourism on Cape Breton Island

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Article | Contributeur(s): Erna MacLeod | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.333

Cape Breton Island is a well-known North American tourism destination with long-standing attractions such as the Cabot Trail and more recently developed world-class offerings such as the Cabot Links Golf Course. Tourism contributes significantly to Cape Breton’s economy, particularly since the...

Canadian Food Studies evolves

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Ellen Desjardins, Wesley Tourangeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.369

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Social economy of food initiatives that are nourishing communities through “power-with” practices

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contributeur(s): Mary Anne Martin, Irena Knezevic, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.362

From 2014 to 2019, Nourishing Communities: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group explored food initiatives in the social economy, many of which use practices like bartering, gifting, and self-provisioning, that remain under-recognized for their economic value. Nourishing Communities...

Community orchards and Hyde’s theory of the gift

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contributeur(s): Jennie K Barron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.358

Food scholars and advocates just have long asserted that commodification is one of the fundamental injustices of our dominant, industrial food system, as it stands in direct opposition to the notion of food as a human right. The informal social economy, with its concerns for solidarity,...

Seed saving in Atlantic Canada: Sustainable food through sharing and education

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contributeur(s): Norma Jean Worden-Rogers, Kathleen Glasgow, Irena Knezevic, Stephanie Hughes | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.352

Seed saving is an important element of seed security. Seed saving can support biodiversity, nourish food systems, facilitate environmental education, and enable the creation of networks that support food sovereignty. Public interest in seed security is on the rise, but local resources and...

Digging through urban agriculture with feminist theoretical implements

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contributeur(s): Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.356

This article considers the value of using tools from feminist theory to explore the efforts of urban agriculture initiatives that practice to some extent outside the formal economy. Such a lens looks beyond the presence of women in specific projects to the value, extent, purpose, and...

Community financing for sustainable food systems: The case of FarmWorks Investment Co-operative

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Article | Contributeur(s): Phoebe Stephens, Irena Knezevic, Linda Best | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.353

Since 2011, FarmWorks Investment Co-operative Limited (FarmWorks) has been boosting Nova Scotia’s farm and food economy through small loans to local food businesses. The fund relies on community investments and relationship-based lending, markers of the provincial government’s Community...

Understanding social economy through a complexity lens: Four case studies in Northwestern Ontario: Four Case Studies

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Article | Contributeur(s): Connie Nelson, Mirella L. Stroink, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel Kakegamic, Esther McKay, William Stolz, Allison Streutker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.357

Broadly described, the social economy refers to a series of initiatives with common values representing explicit social objectives. The roots of social economy organizations predate the neoliberal economy and are integral to the human condition of coming together in mutual support to address...

Uncovering hidden urban bounty: A case study of Hidden Harvest

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Report | Contributeur(s): Chloé Poitevin DesRivières | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.354

Urban food systems primarily rely on foods grown in rural spaces, and often face challenges in creating spaces to grow fresh, healthful and affordable food in cities. Urban food harvest organizations aim to overcome these challenges by locating and harvesting food that already exists in cities...