Opportunities and spaces for change in food environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Essay | Autor(es): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.292

The contributions to this issue of Canadian Food Studies manifest a keen insight: with different media, methods, and voices, we continue to reimagine spaces for food—where and how we consume and grow food, and how we position it into an increasingly democratic, commensal domain. The more food...

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Article | Autor(es): Gavin Schneider, Victoria Fast | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.242

The practice of urban agriculture (UA) is a unique food system model that localizes the production of sustainable, geographically appropriate food. The environmental benefits inherent in UA aligns with the emerging field of climate smart agriculture (CSA). However, the agro-industry focus of...

Insights from the Think&EatGreen@School Project: How a community-based action research project contributed to healthy and sustainable school food systems in Vancouver

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Report | Autor(es): Alejandro Rojas, Jennifer Black, Elena Orrego, Gwen Chapman, Will Valley | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.225

From 2010 to 2016 the Think&EatGreen@School project worked to create healthy and sustainable school food systems in the Vancouver School Board. Using models of Community-Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Action Research, we implemented diverse programmatic and monitoring activities...

Invisible guests: A sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Article | Autor(es): Melanie Binette | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Invité.e.s invisibles (Invisible Guests) is a sound installation created in collaboration with a community restaurant that provides affordable meals to a disadvantaged population in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a former industrial neighbourhood in Montréal. Recorded conversations were made...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Review | Autor(es): 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...

Waste management as foodwork: A feminist food studies approach to household food waste

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Carly Fraser, Kate Parizeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.186

Food waste in Canada is estimated to amount to $31 billion per year, with approximately half of this waste occurring in households (Gooch & Felfel, 2014). However, household food waste studies remain underrepresented in the literature, particularly in a Canadian context. This paper calls...

An ecofeminist perspective on new food technologies

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Angela Lee | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.226

New food technologies are touted by some to be an indispensable part of the toolkit when it comes to feeding a growing population, especially when factoring in the growing appetite for animal products. To this end, technologies like genetically engineered (GE) animals and in vitro meat are...

Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.230

This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop of neo-liberal social welfare approaches that shape gendered food work within food insecurity...

“Sometimes I feel like I’m counting crackers”: The household foodwork of low-income mothers, and how community food initiatives can support them

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Mary Anne Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.188

For women parenting on low incomes, there is a significant disparity between household foodwork standards and the resources with which to meet them. This study centres on the everyday foodwork experiences of low-income mothers and their engagement with community supports such as community food...

Faux-meat and masculinity: The gendering of food on three vegan blogs

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Dana Hart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.233

This study explores the relationship between gender and veganism through a critical analysis of food-based discourse on three vegan blogs. As many researchers note, there is a strong association between meat and masculinity in North American society (Nath, 2011; Rothgerber, 2013; Rozin,...

Voir le jour: Breastfeeding and the commons

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Article | Autor(es): Natalie Doonan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.227

Watch Voir le jour from Natalie Doonan on Vimeo This research-creation project focuses on breastfeeding in public as an act of claiming space for the common good. Its audio-visual component, “Voir le jour,” is part of a larger work that includes community screenings and locative storytelling....

Healthy Roots: Building capacity through shared stories rooted in Haudenosaunee knowledge to promote Indigenous foodways and well-being

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Report | Autor(es): Kelly Gordon, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Hannah Tait Neufeld | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.210

Urban and reserve-based First Nation families in southern Ontario frequently experience food insecurity as well as more limited access to traditional, more nutrient dense foods from the local environment. Healthy Roots was initiated in the community of Six Nations to promote traditional food...

En’owkin Centre Breastfeeding Art Expo

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Review | Autor(es): 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...

Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Essay | 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,...

Rights for whom? Linking baby’s right to eat with economic, social, and cultural rights for women

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Article | Autor(es): Christina Doonan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.232

Breastfeeding women are primary food producers par excellence, delivering a custom-made product to fit the exact needs of a favoured clientele. The importance of breastmilk as a first food has been acknowledged in recent years by many states, which have taken measures to protect and encourage...

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Article | Autor(es): Andrea M. Collins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.228

A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to...

Access and affordability of "healthy" foods in northern Manitoba? The need for Indigenous food sovereignty

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Article | Autor(es): Mengistu Assefa Wendimu, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Tabitha Robin Martens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.302

Despite widespread concerns about household food insecurity experienced by Indigenous peoples, there is limited empirical evidence about the availability and prices of healthy foods in First Nations rural communities located in northern Manitoba, Canada. To fill this research gap, this study...

Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Article | Autor(es): Tiff-Annie Kenny, Sonia D Wesche, Myriam Fillion, Jullian MacLean, Hing Man Chan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.213

Food insecurity among Indigenous Peoples of northern Canada is a significant public health issue that is exacerbated by changing social and environmental conditions. While a patchwork of programs, strategies and polices exist, the extent to which they address all “pillars” of food security...

Climate change, community capitals, and food security: Building a more sustainable food system in a northern Canadian boreal community

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Article | Autor(es): Andrew Spring, Blair Carter, Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.199

Canada’s North offers unique food systems perspectives. Built on close cultural and spiritual ties to the land, the food systems within many northern communities still rely on the harvesting and gathering of traditional food and function through the sharing of food throughout the community....

“Aboriginal isn't just about what was before, it's what's happening now:” Perspectives of Indigenous peoples on the foods in their contemporary diets

2025-03-19 22:03:39 | Article | Autor(es): Lise Luppens, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.219

Health promotion materials for Indigenous peoples generally recommend that Indigenous people incorporate more “traditional” foods into their diets, referring to foods that are hunted, fished or gathered from the local environment. Little scholarly attention has focused on which foods...