Enacting just food futures through the state: evidence from Brazil

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Ricardo Barbosa, Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.540

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have...

Ethnic food practices, health, and cultural racism: Diabetes risk discourse among racialized immigrants in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Autor(es): Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.548

Type 2 diabetes is more prevalent among racialized immigrant groups in Canada compared to the general population. Hence, “ethnicity” is identified as a risk factor for diabetes, focusing on ethnic differences in health behaviours. By linking ethnic differences and diabetes risk, ethnic food...

Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Autor(es): Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz, Danielle Boissoneau, Terran Giacomini, Ayla Fenton, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Sarah Rotz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.565

In this field notes section we explore our work as a collective of Indigenous and settler academics, food providers, and community-based organizers, including how we came together over several plates of nachos and a shared vision of deepening our relationships to land rooted in...

Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Autor(es): Jennifer Brady, Barbara Parker, Susan Belyea, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.308

The idea for this special issue emerged from the enthusiastic response to a day-long series of sessions on feminist food studies that were held during the joint conference of the Canadian Association of Food Studies, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food,...

FLEdGE (Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Autor(es): 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....

Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Teresa Lloro, Frecia González | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.537

A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because...

Food policy councils and the food-city nexus: The History of the Toronto Food Policy Council

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Autor(es): Lori Stahlbrand, Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.505

This field report links food and city policies by tracing the history of the Toronto Food Policy Council and offers our experience-based suggestions regarding the concept of critical food guidance, which we associate with capacity-building and providing opportunities for civic engagement on a...

From bitter to sweet: Continuing the conversation on Indigenous food sovereignty through sharing stories, engaging communities, and embracing culture

2025-03-19 22:03:38 | Autor(es): Kelly Skinner, Tabitha Robin Martens, Jaime Cidro, Kristin Burnett | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.323

The desire to undertake a special issue on Indigenous Food arose during a conversation that took place between the co-editors following a panel on the same topic at the annual conference of the Native American Indigenous Studies Association in 2015. The panel contained a mixture of...

How to enhance the good health and well-being of Canadians: Effective food and meal-based guidelines and policies that fit the facts and face the future

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Autor(es): Jean-Claude Moubarac, Jane Y. Polsky, Milena Nardocci, Geoffrey Cannon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.500

Diet-related diseases and disorders in Canada are a national public health emergency, now and as projected. One main reason is that the national food supply has become increasingly dominated by ultra-processed food and drink products, mostly snacks, that displace dietary patterns based on...

Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Autor(es): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.632

This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize these regulations at the global level to facilitate international trade have proven to be...

Inspiring and informing through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Autor(es): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.156

Often, the ordinariness of familiar terms or concepts belies their complexity and hidden sides, necessitating closer scrutiny. “Big data” is one such phenomenon, upon which Bronson and Knezevic shine a critical spotlight. Showing how current data sources and data collection technologies differ...

Introducing meat studies

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Autor(es): Ryan J. Phillips, Elisabeth Abergel | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.691

A growing, though still loosely connected, body of academic work has started placing meat at the centre of critical discourses regarding climate change and environmental sustainability, human health, economic wellbeing, food futures, and animal and ecological ethics. This special themed issue...

Introduction to the special issue on food procurement

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

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

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

Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

Over the past decades there has been a notable growth in community-based food systems projects and successes. Despite these advancements, food insecurity, precarious food work, ecological degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

Is cell-based meat a climate solution for Canada? : Interpreting lifecycle footprints within the domestic agri-food context

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Autor(es): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.629

Interest and technological know-how in cell-based meat production has grown tremendously in recent years. The appeal is wide ranging, but two main drivers include: i) the possibility of producing edible meat without requiring the slaughter of sentient animals; and ii) the potential to...

Locked In: Looking Back and Moving Forward at the DW/R

2025-07-10 17:49:51 | Autor(es): Jordana Garbati, Taylor Morphett | https://doi.org/10.31468/dwr.1113

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Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | Autor(es): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.103

The global food landscape is changing rapidly. In 2007–08 food prices soared and remained volatile in the following years, effectively leading to a world food crisis that drove tens of millions of people into poverty and hunger. A phenomenal increase in large-scale farmland acquisitions in...

Meat politics at the dinner table: Understanding differences and similarities in Canadians’ meat-related attitudes, preferences and practices

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Autor(es): Emily Kennedy, Shyon Baumann, Josée Johnston | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.529

Few food groups are subject to the same depth and scope of critique as meat. Yet little is known about how the Canadian public feels about meat production and consumption. In other jurisdictions, meat has been a politically polarizing topic; thus, we focus our analysis on political differences...

Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Autor(es): Debbie Field, Carolyn Webb | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.618

We’re at a tipping point towards our goal of ensuring that all children and youth can access healthy food at school. With momentum building for a Canada-wide school food program, and with many provinces and territories making their own investments and developing programs, we have a collective...