Working for Justice in Food Systems on Stolen Land? Interrogating Food Movements Confronting Settler Colonialism

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributeur(s): Michaela Bohunicky, Charles Levkoe, Nick Rose | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.452

The evolving practice and scholarship surrounding food movements aim to address social, political, economic and ecological crises in food systems. However, limited interrogation of settler colonialism remains a crucial gap. Settler colonialism is the ongoing process of invasion that works to...

Moving Your Body, Soul, and Heart to Share and Harvest Food: Food Systems Education for Youth and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributeur(s): Kaylee Michnik, Shirley Thompson, Byron Beardy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.446

Colonialism, and its partner, racism, greatly impact Indigenous food systems across Canada elevating the rates of diet-related diseases and food insecurity. Many Indigenous communities have responded to these challenges with their own community-based, culturally appropriate food solutions,...

Meaning as Motivator to Address Distancing in the Food System

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributeur(s): Karen Rideout | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.442

Distancing in the food system prevents people from having full knowledge and making informed choices about what and how they produce, exchange, prepare, and eat food. This becomes problematic when the dominant industrial food system contributes to myriad negative human health, ecological, and...

Mapping Food Policy Groups: Understanding Cross-Sectoral Network Building through Social Network Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributeur(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Rebecca Schiff, Karen Arnold, Ashley Wilkinson, Karen Kerk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.443

Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of...

Modularity in Intersectoral Research/Action Collaborations for Food Systems Transformation: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Network: Lessons from the FLEdGE Community-Engaged Research Collaborative

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributeur(s): Charles Z Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, David Szanto, Nii A. Addy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.431

How can academics and community practitioners better collaborate to overcome the existing barriers? What role can intersectoral research collaboratives play in supporting, enhancing, and sustaining the impact of community-engaged research? In response to these broad questions, this paper...

Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets: The Case of Lake Superior

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Article | Contributeur(s): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.449

The contribution of fisheries to food systems are largely absent from conceptions of sustainable food systems. At the root of this problem is that fisheries are often seen in terms of maximizing economic efficiency rather than local food security. This perspective piece engages with...

FLEdGE (Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.539

The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010....

Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Article | Contributeur(s): Charles Levkoe, Patricia Ballamingie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.515

Wayne Roberts (1944–2021) was a food systems thinker, public intellectual, and “actionist.” This text was developed from a series of oral history interviews conducted between December 2020 and January 2021. It touches upon several of the key themes Wayne addressed during the interviews:...

Review of "A recipe for gentrification: Food, power, and resistance in the city"

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Review | Contributeur(s): Rachel Engler-Stringer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.512

The book, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City is a well-crafted and useful contribution to the food environment, food access and food justice literatures. The premise of this edited book is to take a close look at the intersections between gentrification,...

Review of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Review | Contributeur(s): Stephanie Rutherford | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.519

Alex Blanchette's Porkopolis offers a compelling ethnography of pig life and death as part of the industrial food system. Blanchette challenges readers to think about factory farms not only as spaces of domination but also also sites where intimacy and exploitation unfold in complicated...

Exploring experiences of food insecurity, stigma, social exclusion, and shame among women in high-income countries: A narrative review

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Review | Contributeur(s): Chloe Pineau, Patricia L Williams, Jennifer Brady, Madeleine Waddington, Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.473

In Canada, over 4.4 million people experience food insecurity, a serious public health issue characterized by inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints. Globally, women experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity, which can be a highly stigmatizing...

Characteristics of Canadian school food programs funded by provinces and territories

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Article | Contributeur(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Mary L. McKenna | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.483

Given the complex administration of school food programs (SFPs) in Canada and recent federal interest, this research systematically examined provincial and territorial funded SFPs during the 2018/19 school year.Relevant literature and the RE-AIM Framework, a planning and evaluation tool...

Examining the relationship between food security and perceived health among Memorial University students

2025-03-19 22:03:16 | Article | Contributeur(s): Lisa Blundell, Maria Mathews | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.414

Abstract Objectives: The prevalence of student food insecurity at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) is relatively high (58.0%) compared to the national population (12.7%). We explored the relationship between food security status, perceived health, and student experience among MUN...

Food pedagogy for transformative social change

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Article | Contributeur(s): Chelsea Klinke, Gertrude Korkor Samar | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.485

The contemporary global agrarian regime has altered the patterns of food production, circulation, and consumption. Its efforts towards food security vis-á-vis capitalist modes of mechanized cultivation have produced large-scale climatic and socioeconomic ramifications, including the...

Unboxing the bento box: An arts-informed inquiry into Japanese families’ experience at Canadian school lunch time

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Article | Contributeur(s): Yukari Seko, Lina Rahouma, Chie Takano Reeves, Veen Wong | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.492

Bento, a Japanese style boxed lunch, has a distinct cultural meaning for Japanese people as a medium of affective communication between children and parents. However, in Canadian schools governed by the Anglo-Western food norms, their culinary practices may stand out. This study employed an...

Fenced community gardens effectively mitigate the negative impacts of white-tailed deer on household food security

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Article | Contributeur(s): Paul Manning | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.416

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are large herbivores that thrive in urban and peri-urban landscapes. Their voracious appetite and ubiquity have made deer a significant threat to growing food in home and community gardens; features that often make important contributions towards...

Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:14 | Article | Contributeur(s): Amanda Wilson, Meredith Bessey, Jennifer Brady, Michael Classens, Kirsten Lee, Charles Levkoe, Jennifer Marshman, Tabitha Martens, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Phoebe Stephens, Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.520

In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a modified version of the 2021 CAFS Presidential Address, given at the joint CAFS/ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN...

The imperative to transform global food systems

2025-03-19 22:03:14 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Philip Loring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.561

Never before, perhaps, has there been greater consensus that our food systems need to be radically reimagined and transformed. However, there is also much contention among those working to advance these transformations over the solutions and futures that ought to be pursued. So, while there is...

CCC catalogue dataset - Printed Translations in Britain 1641-1660

2025-03-19 12:56:50 | Dataset | Contributeur(s): Marie Alice Belle, Brenda Hosington, Olga Stepanova, Faustine Richalet, Daniel Lévy, Marie-France Guénette, Laurence Marion-Pariseau, Josephine Bywaters | https://doi.org/10.25547/2H8F-P835

translation, early modern print, Britain, book trade, Stuart, Civil Wars, Interregnum

CCC subset: Women in translation and print 1641-1660

2025-03-15 22:19:31 | Dataset | Contributeur(s): Marie Alice Belle, Marie-France Guénette | https://doi.org/10.25547/B1DV-YA63

translation; women; print culture; book trade; early modern Britain