Looking back, looking forward: A field report on the Earth to Tables Legacies multimedia educational package

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Report | Autor(es): Alexandra Gelis, Deborah Barndt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.465

The Earth to Tables Legacies Project emerged in 2015, growing out of personal relationships, but also built on a long trajectory of participatory research, multimedia arts production and popular education. We created an intergenerational and intercultural exchange of food activists working for...

Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Culinary Food Studies Bachelor’s Degree

2025-03-19 22:13:17 | Report | Autor(es): Caitlin Michelle Scott, Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.463

Although Food Studies has been acknowledged as a distinctive field in Canada for almost two decades, until now there has not been an undergraduate degree in Food Studies in this country. This is changing with the development of Canada’s first Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Food Studies (BFS) at...

From tensions to transformation: Teaching food systems in a graduate dietetics course

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Autor(es): Eric Ng, Donald C Cole | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.462

Dietitians are deeply embedded within food systems, so food systems concepts are becoming an essential component of dietetic education in Canada. Yet how can we, as educators, better prepare future dietitians to embrace the complexity of food systems and be forces of change towards...

No syllabus, no problem: Let’s co-create a world of food, agriculture, and society

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Autor(es): David Connell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.458

The intimate relation people have with food provides unique opportunities for teaching. In this field report, I will describe and reflect upon the method of student-centred learning I use in a first-year university course entitled Food, Agriculture & Society. The aim of the course is to...

Etuaptmumk - two-eyed seeing: Bringing together land-based learning and online technology to teach Indigenous youth about food

2025-03-19 22:13:16 | Report | Autor(es): Renee Bujold, Ann Fox, Kerry Propser, Kara Pictou, Debbie Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.466

In 2019 we began an intergenerational Land-based learning program with the goal of engaging a group of Mi’kmaw youth from a rural community in Nova Scotia with their Traditional Foodways. When COVID-19 and the physical distancing restrictions hit Nova Scotia, however, this changed how we...

Decolonizing the learning of sitopias in Toronto: The case of the Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Report | Autor(es): Chloe Kavcic, Andrea Moraes, Lina Rahouma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.469

The Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge is a pilot experiential learning activity created at Ryerson University for the class FNU100-Canadian Cuisine: Historical Roots, a first/second year liberal studies course offered to students from diverse programs and cultural backgrounds. This...

From a study of the Newfoundland and Labrador school food system: : Describing an evolution in ways of knowing about school food

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Autor(es): Emily Doyle | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.471

In this perspective piece I reflect on the importance of considering the place of schools within broader systems for critical school food study and intervention. These reflections are based on my study of school food in Newfoundland and Labrador from a systems perspective which helped reveal...

Towards a common understanding of food literacy: a pedagogical framework

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Autor(es): Kimberley J Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, Sara Kirk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.467

Food literacy is an evolving term fundamental to both health and education.  The concept of food literacy typically has been informed by nutrition-focused thinking, with particular emphasis on food skills.  Moving beyond this traditional focus is necessary to address...

Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Essay | Autor(es): Michael Classens, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.572

The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly...

A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Review | Autor(es): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

Une Recension du livre Diners, Dudes and Diets

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Review | Autor(es): Janie Perron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.549

Diners, Dudes and Diets by Emily Contois offers a unique opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of the gendered nature of food in the historical context of the United States. In her book, Contois illustrates how the industry contributes to the construction of gender binaries to...

Cultivating critical and food justice dimensions of youth food programs: : Lessons learned in the kitchen and the garden

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Autor(es): Tina Moffat, Sarah Oresnik, Amy Angelo, Hanine Chami, Krista D'aoust, Sarah Elshahat, Yu Jia Guo | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.547

In this article we present accounts of two youth food programs operating at a Community Food Centre. One program, Kids Club, engages children, aged 6 to 12, in cooking and gardening activities; the other, Cookin' Up Justice, is directed to adolescents (13 to 18 years) and explores food justice...

Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene – On the necessity of food and agriculture change

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Article | Autor(es): Marit Rosol, Christoph Rosol | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.532

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates forcefully that human health, the well-being of animals, and planetary health must not be viewed in isolation—and that they all depend to a large extent on the ways in which we produce, process, trade, and consume food. In this perspective essay, we argue for...

Seizing this COVID moment: What can Food Justice learn from Disability Justice?

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Article | Autor(es): Martha Stiegman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.525

It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying the structural inequalities Canadian society is built upon. We are now a year and a half into the global pandemic. I am writing from Toronto, where “hot spots” (neighbourhoods with high infection...

Reframing food as a commons in Canada: Learning from customary and contemporary Indigenous food initiatives that reflect a normative shift

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Autor(es): Jodi Koberinski, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.504

This paper interrogates the role of the dominant narrative of “food-as-commodity” in framing food systems policy in Canada. Human values shape policies, usually privileging those policies that are aligned with dominant values and neglecting others that confront dominant values. In that sense,...

Critical reflections on "humane" meat and plant-based meat "alternatives"

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Autor(es): Wesley Tourangeau, Caitlin Michelle Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.510

Canadians are among the top meat consumers in the world. Greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, animal stress and suffering, worker health and safety, and cardiovascular disease are among the multitude of issues tied to high rates of meat consumption. In response to rising concern and...

The de-meatification imperative: To what end?

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Autor(es): Tony Weis, Rebecca A Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.511

Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and...

Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada: A closed-loop food system alternative to the food recovery hierarchy approach

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Autor(es): Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.490

Food waste is a complex problem with far reaching negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. To identify appropriate solutions to address food waste, the food recovery hierarchy developed by the Environmental Protection Agency is currently the most popular guiding framework in food...

“Good healthy food for all”: Examining FoodShare Toronto´'s approach to critical food guidance through a reflexivity lens

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Autor(es): Alessandra Manganelli, Fleur Esteron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.503

By building community-based food systems informed by transformative ideologies and principles, Community-Based Food Organisation (CBFOs) can be understood as agents of critical food guidance from the bottom-up. This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity as pivotal to the implementation of...

The evolution of Haudenosaunee food guidance: Building capacity toward the sustainability of local environments in the community of Six Nations of the Grand River

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Essay | Autor(es): Hannah Tait Neufeld, Adrianne Xavier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.502

The emerging literature on the Indigenous food movement identifies community involvement, family-centred food education and re-establishing a relationship with the land as essential to restoring sustainable food systems, land and water access. These processes of reclamation have similarly...