Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Essay | Contributeur(s): 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...

Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.562

Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples. Traditional food access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss...

Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Leticia Ama Deawuo, Michael Classens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.631

The impetus for this themed section came out of the broader reckoning that touched off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The Canadian Association for Food Studies board, like so many organizations struggling to respond to such brazen violence, released a...

The CFS Choux Questionnaire: Lisa Heldke, food philosopher

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Interview | Contributeur(s): Lisa Heldke | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.650

A riff on the well-riffed Proust Questionnaire, the Canadian Food Studies Choux Questionnaire is meant to elicit a tasty and perhaps surprising experience, framed within a seemingly humble exterior. (And yes, some questions have a bit more craquelin than others.) Straightforward on their own,...

A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Review | Contributeur(s): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.644

Jo Handelsman’s text A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet outlines the threats to global soil health from a scientific perspective and provides an empirical foundation for many in the social sciences or humanities who advocate for more...

Slow cooked: An unexpected life in food politics

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Review | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.640

This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the...

Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributeur(s): Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.582

Home food gardening has seen a resurgence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the preliminary findings from the first 6 months of a 22-month home food gardening study in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participant home food gardeners were asked to log their weekly gardening...

Food system resilience during COVID-19: The role of local producers in rural Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributeur(s): Kelli Weinkauf, Tracy Everitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.594

Over the last 70 years, Canadian agriculture has shifted from many small farms that supplied local residents, to fewer large farms designed to maximize production, reduce cost, and target international markets. At present, small local food chains exist as a small fraction of the Canadian food...

“This brings meaning and purpose to the lessons:” : Teachers’ and facilitators’ perspectives on the joys and challenges of school garden programs in south-eastern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributeur(s): Janette Haase, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.600

School garden programs (SGPs) offer students opportunities to experience and participate in the processes of nature and agriculture through hands-on learning in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Although the value of school gardens has been well documented, there is little-to-no concrete...

Cohérence des interventions gouvernementales pour prévenir l’insécurité alimentaire des ménages : Le cas du Québec

2025-03-19 22:12:58 | Article | Contributeur(s): Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme, Laurence Bastien, Etienne-Yusufu Kachaka, Laurence Godin, Laure Saulais, Ibrahima Bocoum | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.606

In Quebec, food insecurity is a public health issue. Despite the support of several ministries to community and private organizations fighting against food insecurity, it persists and has worsened with the pandemic of COVID-19. This article analyzes the coherence of government policies and...

Transitioning to a public-minded food system: Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communities

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributeur(s): Matilda Dipieri | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.611

A vision for a more sustainable, just, and health-promoting food system comes from scholars, activist organizations, and communities alike. However, creating infrastructure and implementing policy that allows for the transition to a healthy, community-minded system comes with significant...

Review of Canadian literary fare by Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Review | Contributeur(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.669

This review looks at Canadian Literary Fare by Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer. The book gives an unconventional exploration of 'food voices' in Canadian literature. The authors examine the food narratives of celebrated Canadian writers, like Alice Munro, Eden Robinson, Fred...

Le questionnaire Choux de la Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Interview | Contributeur(s): Genevieve Sicotte | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.667

A riff on the well-riffed Proust Questionnaire, the Canadian Food Studies Choux Questionnaire is meant to elicit a tasty and perhaps surprising experience, framed within a seemingly humble exterior. (And yes, some questions have a bit more craquelin than others.) Straightforward on their own,...

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributeur(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

Transition, coherence, resilience and joy

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Canadian Food Studies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.652

These four nouns are taken out of the article titles on offer in this issue. Uncover within the systemic transitions taking place, the coherence required, the resilience that has emerged, and the joy that may be found in food production, distribution and consumption. With this issue also comes...

Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.637

The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern...

Review of Chocolate: How a New World commodity conquered Spanish literature by Erin Alice Cowling

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Review | Contributeur(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.648

Chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain and it is the main subject of Cowling’s book. Within, Cowling discusses the material importance that chocolate had in the New World and how it was assimilated into European society as a commercial, medicinal, and sexual...

Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Review | Contributeur(s): Noura Nasser | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.656

The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St. Lucia, and gradually reveals the enmeshed connections of slavery, colonialism, and racial...

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Article | Contributeur(s): Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Oleg Lavriv, Mary Beckie, Maria Mayan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.627

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying...

Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Article | Contributeur(s): Sarah Elton, Evan Fraser, Ruth Siew | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.626

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many warned that the resilience of the global, industrial food system would be tested. We conducted regular interviews in 2020 with key actors at the Ontario Food Terminal, North America’s third largest produce wholesale market, to better understand...