News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation #Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies #NewPodcast #OpenAccess #KnowledgeSharing #Food canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

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Choux Questionnaire Bryan Dale #Choux #Questionnaire #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialMovements #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Labour #Equality canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Review of Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity Ethan Shapiro #Beer #GlobalTrade #GlobalCommodity #BeerTech #Commodity #FoodAndDrink #BeerHistory #History #BookReview #BooksAboutBeer canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Review of Serving the public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals and Prisons Jennifer Sumner #GoodFood #Revolution #HospitalFood #PrisonFood #SchoolFood #PublicInstitutions #BookReview #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Review of Eating Like a Mennonite Aqeel Ihsan #Community #Diaspora #Eating #Food #Mennonite #Migration #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading #BookReview #OpenAccess #KnowledgeSharing canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Tune in to listen to our chat about infant food insecurity on the new @foodstudies.ca podcast #digestingfoodstudies rss.com/podcasts/dig...

Fostering innovation in Arctic food industries Lisa F. Clark Andrey Mineev David Natcher #Arctic #FoodSystems #Indigenous #Innovation #Policy #RegionalHubs #ValueChain canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Announcing the launch of the new Canadian Food Studies podcast, “Digesting Food Studies”! Episodes range from food justice to sustainability to intercultural identity, from the technologies of agriculture to the relationships embedded in Indigenous foodways. #digestingfoodstudies

Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures Dutta Takeuchi Chowdhury Edworthy Eves Habib Haroon Thraya Wolf Leg #Immigration #IndigenousKnowledge #LearningAlliances #FoodJustice #PublicLibraries #Climate #Environment canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Feeding children while Asian Immigrant families’ experiences with school lunches in Canada Yukari Seko Veen Wong Clara Juando-Prats Lina Rahouma Jessica Yu Nayanee Henry-Noel #AsianImmigrants #Family #Lunch #SchoolLunch #Shaming #Canada canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Food security, food sovereignty, and the neoliberal food system in Saskatchewan @royalsaskmuseum.bsky.social ‪ @uregina.bsky.social @heritagesask.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #LivingHeritage #RuralFood #FoodSystems #Saskatchewan #UrbanFood canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

“We shouldn’t always have to be resilient” A critical discourse analysis of food system resilience and equity in Toronto, Ontario, in an era of global polycrisis Jenelle Regnier-Davies Sara Edge #Canada #FoodPolicy #Resilience #Inequity #Toronto canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Assessing and addressing food waste in university dining A dual-design study at Brescia University College in Ontario, Canada Jessica Vader Victoria Hanson Latifeh Ahmadi #FoodWaste #PlateWaste #DiningHall #UniversityRestaurants #UniversityStudents canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Food Systems and Agricultural Scholars and Practitioners Demand Escalation of Canada’s Response to Israel’s Use of Mass Starvation as a Tool of Genocide Against Palestinians #Food #FoodSovereignty #RightToFood #Palestine #TurtleIsland #FoodSystems foodstudies.info/food-systems...

Toward a national school food program in Canada Understanding current landscape and context Maximova Dabravolskaj Tran Leatherdale Patte Veugelers #Children #Diet #SchoolFood #Health #Equity #Nutrition #SchoolFoodProgram #Canada canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation David Szanto Alexia Moyer Charles Z. Levkoe Laurence Godin Rachel Engler-Stringer #Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation Just Published! #OpenAccess #SchoolFood #FoodWaste #Resilience #Equity #SchoolLunches #FeedingChildren #Environment canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies Andrea M. Collins #Gender #Food #Land #Governance #Agriculture #Policy #FoodPolicy #AgriculturePolicy #Read all you want! #OpenAccess canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Opportunities and spaces for change in food environments Ellen Desjardins #FoodEnvironments #Transformation #Methods #Editorial #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat

Organic vs. Local: Comparing individualist and collectivist motivations for “ethical” food consumption Shyon Baumann Athena Engman Emily Huddart-Kennedy Josee Johnston #Ethical #Consumption #Organic #Food #LocalFood #Consumer #Caring

Land-Based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up Sonia D. Wesche Meagan Ann F. O'Hare-Gordon Michael A. Robidoux Courtney W. Mason #WildFood #Research #FoodSecurity #Indigenous canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Food discourses in Cape Breton: Community, economy, and ecological food practices Erna MacLeod #CapeBreton #Discourse #EcologicalFood #LocalFood #FoodTourism #Ethnography #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing

CRFA - Big Food corporations and the nutritional marketing and regulation of processed foods Gyorgy Scrinis #Nutrition #Marketing #ProcessedFood #Regulation #BigFood #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing

Campus gardens: Food production or sense of place? Natalee Ridgeway June Matthews #University #QualitativeResearch #Survey #Food #Nutrition #Sustainability #Gardening #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Rita Hansen Sterne #BookReview #BooksAboutFood #Farming #Meat #Books #CurrentlyReading #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat

Against the Odds: The Survival of Traditional Food Knowledge in a Rural Alberta Community Jennifer Braun Mary Beckie #Canning #Cooking #Gardening #Alberta #RuralLife #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFood #Read all you want! #OpenAccess

Unboxing the bento box: An arts-informed inquiry into Japanese families’ experience at Canadian school lunch time Yukari Seko Lina Rahouma Chie Takano Reeves Veen Wong #Bento #SchoolFood #FoodCulture #FamilyFood #SchoolLunches #Canada

Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets: The Case of Lake Superior Kristen Lowitt #SmallScaleFisheries #FisheriesPolicy #FoodPolicy #SustainableDiets #LakeSuperior #FreshwaterFisheries #IndigenousFisheries #CommercialFisheries

Is the ‘obesity crisis’ really the health crisis of the food system? The ecological determinants of health for food system change Sarah Elton #Ecology #FoodSupply #Obesity #ObesityCrisis #ClimateChange #FatStigma

A Spatial analysis of population at risk of food insecurity using the voices from a Photovoice study Mikiko Terashima Catherine Hart Patricia Williams #MixedMethods #ResearchMethods #FoodSecurity #SpatialAnalysis #Photovoice

Obscuring the Veil Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy Ellyse Winter #CommodityFetishism #Advertising #AnimalIndustrialComplex #PublicPedagogy #CriticalPedagogies #FoodPedagogies

Digging through urban agriculture with feminist theoretical implements Mary Anne Martin #UrbanAgriculture #SocialEconomy #FeministTheory #Community #FoodInitiatives #UrbanAg #Ontario #Canada #OpenAccess

Supply management and the business activities of Ontario meat processors Rita Hansen Sterne Erna van Duren #SupplyManagement #MeatIndustry #InternationalTrade #ValueChains #PublicPolicy #OpenAccess

Gleaning in the 21st Century: Urban food recovery and community food security in Ontario, Canada Jennifer Marshman Steffanie Scott #Gleaning #FoodProvisioning #FoodSecurity #FoodRecovery #Ontario #Canada #FoodBanks #FreshFood #OpenAccess

Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada's farms Darrin Qualman A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi Annette Aurélie Desmarais Sharada Srinivasan #CanAg #Agriculture #Canada #Farmers #YoungFarmers #Read all you want! #OpenAccess

Access and affordability of "healthy" foods in northern Manitoba? The need for Indigenous food sovereignty Mengistu Assefa Wendimu Annette Aurélie Desmarais Tabitha Robin Martens #Manitoba #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FirstNations

Rights for whom? Linking baby’s right to eat with economic, social, and cultural rights for women Christina Doonan #Breastfeeding #Breastmilk #RightToFood #RightToFeed #Read all you want! #OpenAccess

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments Gavin Schneider Victoria Fast #Climate #ClimateSmart #Food #UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #GIS #Read all you want! #OpenAccess

Petits commerces de bouche et réseaux alimentaires alternatifs: un regard montréalais Alexandre Maltais #CommerceDeDétail #Distribution #Alimentation #PetitCommerce

Heroes for the helpless: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian national print media’s coverage of the food insecurity crisis in Nunavut Bradley Hiebert Elaine Power #FoodInsecurity #Nunavut #Inuit #CanadianMedia #Canada #Media canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

Food studies scholars can no longer ignore the rise of big data Kelly Bronson Irena Knezevic #BigData #Crowdsourcing #Agriculture #AgriculturalApps #AgriculturalTech #AgTech canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

CAFS will be closed for summer break from August 4, 2025, to August 15, 2025. The listserv is moderated manually so anything sent to the listserv during this period will go out the week of August 18th. Emails will not be monitored and will be responded to the week of August 18th.

SWFS - State of the world food system Jennifer Clapp Annette Desmarais Matias Margulis #WorldFoodSystem #FoodSystem #Hunger #FoodCrisis #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

“Eating isn’t just swallowing food”: Food practices in the context of social class trajectory Brenda L. Beagan Elaine M. Power Gwen E. Chapman #SocialClass #Eating #EatingHabits #EatingPatterns #ClassMobility #ClassTrajectory #OpenAccess

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change Jennifer Braun #Eating #Politics #BookReview #BooksAboutFood #FoodPolitics #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat

Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents Harriet Friedmann #FoodShed #Brazil #China #Ontario #Canada #Read all you want! #OpenAccess #Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing #Grow your understanding of #Food #Repeat

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"food issues are not always about food. The issues are very interlinked." Useful reflections here on how it is impossible to separate injustices in #FoodSystems from broader systemic barriers & challenges - including barriers preventing more BIPOC people being in academia & publishing #FoodJustice