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  1. Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys

    Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys

    2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Contributor(s): Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.181

    Critical discussions of human rights have featured prominently in the development studies literature. While many social actors have utilized human rights to advance their goals, the framework has also been criticized for its tendency to individualize struggles and emphasize legal dimensions of...

  2. Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston

    Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston

    2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.184

    Driven by a central question—“why do so many women care so much about food?”—Cairns and Johnston investigate the contemporary contours and connections between food and femininity, detailing the diverse ways these two things intersect and emerge in women’s lives. Their research is done in a...

  3. How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy by Charlene Elliott (Ed.)

    How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy by Charlene Elliott (Ed.)

    2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Kathy Dobson, Fleur Esteron, Irena Knezevic, Agnes Malkinson, Scott Mitchell, Andrea Noriega, Chloe Poitevin DesRivieres, Julie Pasho, Antonella Pucci | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.182

    Elliott’s collection brings communication studies to the core of food studies, and this makes it a long-overdue book. While not all authors are communication scholars, the range of topics covered in the book are representative of how enmeshed the study of food and the study of human...

  4. Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems by Henk de Zeeuw and Pay Drechsel (Eds.)

    Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems by Henk de Zeeuw and Pay Drechsel (Eds.)

    2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Zhenzhong Si, Jennifer Marshman, Simon Berge, Ning Dai, Tammara Soma, Bryan Dale, Karen Landman, John Bacher, Mashiur Rahman, Charles Z. Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.177

    In an age when we are inundated with information, efforts that streamline that information—by sifting kernels of wheat from the chaff—are precious. Our reviews are intended to assist CFS readers faced with a growing body of material relevant to food studies. However, the standard book review...

  5. New CSR in the food system: Industry and non-traditional corporate food interests

    New CSR in the food system: Industry and non-traditional corporate food interests

    2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Margaret Bancerz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.171

    Throughout the twentieth century, the food system has not only undergone changes in structure and in process, but has shown a growing transformation in food system governance. Often this transformation involves private actors engaging in the policymaking and governance arena. This paper draws...

  6. Making better use of what we have: Strategies to minimize food waste and resource inefficiency in Canada

    Making better use of what we have: Strategies to minimize food waste and resource inefficiency in Canada

    2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributor(s): Rod MacRae, Anne Siu, Marlee Kohn, Moira Matsubuchi-Shaw, Doug McCallum, Tania Hernandez Cervantes, Danielle Perreault | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.143

    We examined the problems of and solutions to food waste through the main three frames of social science research on food waste: political economy; the cultural turn (the cultures, ideologies and politics of food and consumption); and political ecology. In the course of our collective research...

  7. Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

    Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

    2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.215

    No abstract required (book review).

  8. Nourrir la machine humaine. Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 par Caroline Durand

    Nourrir la machine humaine. Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 par Caroline Durand

    2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Manon Boulianne | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.214

    Il est toujours fascinant de prendre connaissance des contextes d’émergence des discours qui cherchent à transformer les normes et les pratiques sociales, ainsi que des véhicules utilisés pour en assurer la diffusion et tenter d’obtenir l’adhésion des publics concernés. Dans cet ouvrage,...

  9. Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey by Lenore Newman

    Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey by Lenore Newman

    2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.223

    Book review.

  10. Alternative Food Networks in Quebec

    Alternative Food Networks in Quebec

    2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributor(s): Manon Boulianne, Patrick Mundler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.217

    This commentary reflects on a two-day conference, Réseaux alimentaires alternatifs au Québec. Perspectives comparatives, held in Montreal on May 12 & 13, 2016, during the 84th Congress of ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences). The event was organized by...

  11. Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (Eds.)

    Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (Eds.)

    2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Anita Stewart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.261

    Based on broadly annotated recipes published in 1855, this historical treasure trove of food sourcing and cooking has been reworked for modern readers by editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. These authors have been deeply immersed in Canadian culinary history for most of their careers,...

  12. Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang

    Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang

    2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.250

    This path-breaking book situates the thorny issue of diets firmly within what has been called the Anthropocene—the era of human-induced changes to the planet. Since many of these changes are associated with food production and consumption, the authors argue that we need to develop sustainable...

  13. Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson, Jennifer Brady, and Charles Z. Levkoe (Eds.)

    Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson, Jennifer Brady, and Charles Z. Levkoe (Eds.)

    2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributor(s): Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.244

    This inspiring collection of essays by mostly young and freshly minted scholars takes me back 50 years, to my own misspent youth during the 1960s and ’70s, when I was part of a social history gang eager to “rewrite history from the bottom up.” We wanted to ask new questions and use new...

  14. En’owkin Centre Breastfeeding Art Expo

    En’owkin Centre Breastfeeding Art Expo

    2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributor(s): Karen Graham, Rhonda Camille, Tracey Kim Bonneau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.289

    A unique Indigenous-focused Art Expo on the topic of breastfeeding was held at En’owkin Centre at Penticton Indian Band in October and November 2017. The En’owkin Centre is a nationally recognized Indigenous arts and training centre. This review highlights some of the art from the En’owkin...

  15. Can we eat our way to a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system?

    Can we eat our way to a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system?

    2025-03-19 22:03:36 | Contributor(s): Barbara Seed, Cecilia Rocha | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.258

    The food system is a major contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, eutrophication and deforestation. This article examines national dietary guidelines as a way to shift dietary patterns in the population toward diets that continue to promote health while being more ecologically...

  16. Pesticides: Le Talon d’Achille des politiques alimentaires canadiennes et québécoises

    Pesticides: Le Talon d’Achille des politiques alimentaires canadiennes et québécoises

    2025-03-19 22:03:36 | Contributor(s): Marie-Hélène Bacon, Louise Vandelac, Sébastien Petrie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.274

    Comment expliquer que le projet de politique alimentaire du Canada ignore le dossier des pesticides alors que la récente politique bioalimentaire du Québec évoque vaguement la question, mais sans engagements significatifs? Pourquoi évacuer ainsi l’analyse des enjeux et des effets sanitaires et...

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

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

    2025-03-19 22:03:33 | Contributor(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...

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

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

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

    Book Review.

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

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

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

    Book Review

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

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

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

    book review

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