Community orchards and Hyde’s theory of the gift

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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,...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:29 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Uncovering hidden urban bounty: A case study of Hidden Harvest

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Report | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

The Value in Community Gardens: A Return on Investment Analysis

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Susie Cochran, Leia Minaker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.332

Food production in cities is increasingly regarded as one of the building blocks for sustainable urban living, particularly as the agricultural industry faces mounting ecological and economic constraints, and populations continue to concentrate in urban centers. While substantial research...

Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.411

Book review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations.

The Strawberry Squeeze - a review of Wilted: Chemicals, Pathogens and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Janette Haase | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.420

Book review of Julie Guthman's Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry 

Recension de The Sociology of Food and Agriculture de Michael Carolan

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Serge-Olivier Rondeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.311

Écrit d’une manière claire et conçu comme une introduction pour les étudiant(es), le livre permet de voir l’étendue du champ de la SAA, de saisir son évolution, de cerner ses objets et de se familiariser avec les approches méthodologiques et les enjeux auxquels elle fait face. Dans une visée...

Film Review: The Superfood Chain

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Review | Contribuidor(es): Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.412

Film review of The Superfood Chain.

Introduction to the special issue on the social and informal economy of food

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Essay | Contribuidor(es): Irena Knezevic, Charles Z. Levkoe, Phil Mount, Connie Nelson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.379

A perspective on social economy and food systems: Key insights and thoughts on future research

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Phoebe Stephens, Connie Nelson, Charles Levkoe, Phil Mount, Irena Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer, Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.355

For a concept that was largely outside of the public gaze a decade ago, “social economy” has, in a short time, captured the attention and imaginations of civil society organizations, mainstream institutions, and funders. Local and national governments, international agencies and foundations...

A Participatory Study of the Health and Social Impact of a Community Food Centre in Ottawa, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Aganeta Enns, Myddryn Ellis, Tracey O’Sullivan, Peter Milley, Elizabeth Kristjansson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.366

Food insecurity is a pervasive and persistent issue across Canada, where a growing number of people are accessing food banks. Conventional food banks may offer relief for immediate needs but typically have limited capacity to address longer-term food insecurity. This paper focuses on the...

Starving to be a student: The experiences of food insecurity among undergraduate students in Nova Scotia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Meredith Bessey, Lesley Frank, Patricia L. Williams | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.375

Household food insecurity (HFI) exists when access to food is inadequate or insecure due to financial constraints, and is an issue of increasing concern among postsecondary students who face barriers to food access due to precarious finances. The goal of the current study was to explore the...

Obscuring the Veil: Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Ellyse Winter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.377

Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States....

Examining Local Food Procurement, Adaptive Capacities and Resilience to Environmental Change in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Paulina Paige Ross, Courtney W Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.373

By exploring localized adaptation strategies for climate change, this paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of local perspectives and efforts regarding food procurement in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories (NT). The benefits and risks associated with engaging in local food...

“They hold on tight to the healthy eating, we hold on tight to our food safety, and how do we bridge that?”: determinants of successful collaboration between food safety and food security practitioners in British Columbia, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Kelsey A Speed, Samantha B Meyer, Rhona M Hanning, Karen Rideout, Melanie Kurrein, Shannon E Majowicz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.384

Food safety and food security are two important public health sectors within Canada, which aim to address foodborne disease and food insecurity, respectively.  While these sectors are often siloed within public health organizations, the actions of the two sectors often interact and...

What Makes a CSA a CSA? A Framework for Comparing Community Supported Agriculture with Cases of Canada and China

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Weiping Chen, Tony Fuller, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.390

In different parts of the world, community supported agriculture (CSA) has taken a variety of organizational forms, drawn on different ideologies, used a variety of land tenure arrangements, and taken on varied types of market relations in terms of how they arrange sales and memberships....

“Its smoke must make it blind” : Fire and a commitment to regeneration

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Essay | Contribuidor(es): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.435

Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Emily Reisman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.415

This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from “next year in Jerusalem” to “next year, together,” the essay explores the politics of place in...