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 | Autor(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....

“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 | Autor(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...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Article | Autor(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...

Student food literacy, critical food systems pedagogy, and the responsibility of postsecondary institutions

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Article | Autor(es): Michael Classens, Emily Sytsma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.370

The recent “pedagogical turn” (Flowers and Swan 2012, p. 424) in food studies has productively focused attention on how to teach for a more just and sustainable food system. So far, however, the question of the place for food literacy in food systems pedagogy has received relatively little...

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

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Article | Autor(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...

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

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

Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): Rebecca Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.388

This review examines Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future, a new book about the activism of the National Farmers Union (NFU) over the past five decades. In this review I highlight the impact of the NFU in campaigns...

Book Review: Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.451

Book Review of Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations, Hilde Bjorkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead. We have today a highly capitalized and complex agricultural system that contorts the global food system into a collection of financialized...

Book Review: Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge.

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): Mindy Jewell Price | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.434

Book review of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge. It is easy to be discouraged by the ecological damages and social inequities caused by the contemporary...

Book Review of Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): Ryan J. Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.417

As part of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment’ series, Kenavy’s recent edited volume provides a timely look at plant-based eating, in both research and practice. Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability (2020) includes fourteen chapters divided into four...

Mind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.444

  A book review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton, the companion publication to the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. See this issue of CFS/RCÉA for Jennifer O'Connor's review of Savour. It is difficult not to like The King's Peas, the...

Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Review | Autor(es): Jennifer OConnor | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.385

The current exhibition at the Gardiner Museum, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, explores how eating, cooking, and dining were reimagined in England and France from the 1650s to the 1790s. Drawing from the Gardiner’s collection of ceramics as well as works on loan from other...

Growing Food, Sharing Culture at the Rainbow Community Garden in Winnipeg, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Article | Autor(es): Laura Lucas, Fabiana Li | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.439

The Rainbow Community Gardens in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a community project that supports immigrant and refugee families and helps them to grow their own food. The photos and accompanying text that make up this photo essay examine the role of food and community gardens as a means of expressing...

Beyond Health & Nutrition: Re-framing school food programs through integrated food pedagogies

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Article | Autor(es): Barbara Parker, Mario Koeppel | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.371

In this paper, we present findings from a community-based research project on school food environments in 50 elementary and high schools in a mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. Our findings highlight that schools' privilege five intersecting domains in the school food environment: 1) health...

A Spatial analysis of population at risk of food insecurity using the voices from a Photovoice study: An exploratory mixed-methods approach

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Article | Autor(es): Mikiko Terashima, Catherine Hart, Patricia Williams | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.365

To better understand community-level impacts of the built environmental quality on residents with less economic resources to acquire food, it is fruitful to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to the investigation. We explored how the level of spatial accessibility in communities...

“Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Article | Autor(es): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.413

In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt to delineate in universal terms what constitutes a sustainable and healthy diet. This perspective...

A problematic of plenty

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Essay | Autor(es): Alexia Moyer, Charles Z Levkoe, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.475

Review of “Green meat? Sustaining eaters, animals, and the planet”

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Review | Autor(es): Rachel Mason | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.499

Edited by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene and Sarah J. Martin, Green Meat? brings together a diverse collection of perspectives to explore the relationships between meat and the environment, while tackling the thorny question of whether and how meat can be part of a sustainable diet.

Review of "Thinking with soils: Material politics and social theory"

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Review | Autor(es): Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.494

Drawing on the pioneering work of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, the contributors to Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory argue that it is time for social scientists to deepen our own understanding of soil. We need to consider how to think with soils and recentre the set of...

Review of "Take back the tray: Revolutionizing food in hospitals, schools, and other institutions"

2025-03-19 22:03:21 | Review | Autor(es): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.472

This book fills a gap that is decades old—the problem with institutional food. Long the butt of jokes, complaints, and recriminations, institutional food has often represented the epitome of the worst that food can be: unhealthy, bland, colourless, placeless, and joyless—an afterthought that...