Who are the cattails? Stories of Algonquin Anishinaabe Food Systems

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Report | Contributeur(s): Samantha Kaitlyn Patterson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.474

This narrative illustrates my evolving ontological and epistemological relations with food systems on Algonquin territory as an Algonquin woman and a registered dietitian. As dietitians, we study the function of food within our human bodies, but do not think about the who behind our...

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...

Growing With Lady Flower Gardens: Governance in a Land-based Initiative Focused on Building Community, Well-being and Social Equity Through Food

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributeur(s): Ashley M. Roszko, Mary A. Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.441

The local food sector has been gaining strong momentum in the province of Alberta but inclusiveness, social equity, and affordability remain issues of concern. Lady Flower Gardens (LFG) is a community-based initiative that is working to address these issues. Established in 2012 on private land...

Integrative Governance for Ecological Public Health: An Analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Article | Contributeur(s): Peter Andree, Patricia Ballamingie, Mary Coulas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.450

Normatively grounded in the ecological public health paradigm, this paper speaks to the role of public policy in addressing food and nutrition-related health challenges through a critical analysis of the 2019 Food Policy for Canada (FPC). We draw on primary data gathered through a SSHRC-funded...

On the Front Lines in Food Policy: Assessing the Role of Neighbourhoods for Food Systems Transformation in the Montreal Food Polity

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Review | Contributeur(s): Anna-Liisa Aunio, Laurette Dube | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.493

This paper reports a multi-year design-based implementation research (DBIR) that examines practical issues, challenges, and innovations faced by the Montreal food polity in transforming food systems for alleviating insecurity in vulnerable populations. Community organizations in three...

O is for open (as well as optimal, operable, optimistic, organic)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Essay | Contributeur(s): David Szanto, Alexia Moyer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.513

Much as we might like to think of the academy as an enlightened domain of pure knowledge creation, it is inextricably linked to financial and corporate influences. The business of academic publishing is a complex ecosystem of actors, processes, expectations, and perversions. Many of us have...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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:...

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...

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...