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Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets: The Case of Lake Superior | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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 | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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: An exploratory mixed-methods approach | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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 | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Obscuring the Veil
Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

Ellyse Winter

#CommodityFetishism #Advertising #AnimalIndustrialComplex #PublicPedagogy #CriticalPedagogies #FoodPedagogies

Digging through urban agriculture with feminist theoretical implements | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Digging through urban agriculture with feminist theoretical implements

Mary Anne Martin

#UrbanAgriculture #SocialEconomy #FeministTheory #Community #FoodInitiatives #UrbanAg #Ontario #Canada

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Supply management and the business activities of Ontario meat processors | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Supply management and the business activities of Ontario meat processors

Rita Hansen Sterne
Erna van Duren

#SupplyManagement #MeatIndustry #InternationalTrade #ValueChains #PublicPolicy

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Gleaning in the 21st Century: Urban food recovery and community food security in Ontario, Canada | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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

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Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada's farms | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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

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Access and affordability of "healthy" foods in northern Manitoba? The need for Indigenous food sovereignty | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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 | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

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

Christina Doonan

#Breastfeeding #Breastmilk #RightToFood #RightToFeed

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Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Mapping the growing capacity of climate smart food in urban environments

Gavin Schneider
Victoria Fast

#Climate #ClimateSmart #Food #UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #GIS

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Petits commerces de bouche et réseaux alimentaires alternatifs: un regard montréalais | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Petits commerces de bouche et réseaux alimentaires alternatifs: un regard montréalais

Alexandre Maltais

#CommerceDeDétail #Distribution #Alimentation #PetitCommerce

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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

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Food studies scholars can no longer ignore the rise of big data

Kelly Bronson
Irena Knezevic

#BigData #Crowdsourcing #Agriculture #AgriculturalApps #AgriculturalTech #AgTech

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CAFS will be closed for summer break from August 4, 2025, to August 15, 2025.

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SWFS - State of the world food system

Jennifer Clapp
Annette Desmarais
Matias Margulis

#WorldFoodSystem #FoodSystem #Hunger #FoodCrisis

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“Eating isn’t just swallowing food”: Food practices in the context of social class trajectory | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

“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
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The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, food and social change

Jennifer Braun

#Eating #Politics #BookReview #BooksAboutFood #FoodPolitics

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Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents

Harriet Friedmann

#FoodShed #Brazil #China #Ontario #Canada

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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

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

Leticia Ama Deawuo
Michael Classens

#AntiRacism #Canada #FoodSystems #Racism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Collaboration

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Titans of Industrial Agriculture Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricu...

If we want to know why the food isn’t reaching the people, start with the writing of the authors, along with @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social’s writing on food barons and consolidation mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...

“Carceral Food Systems” under an image of a tomato plant and a chain intertwined. The tomato plant appears to break through the chains. Cover of Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): Exploring carceral food systems: Tensions, experiences and possibilities.

Choux Questionnaire

Joshna Maharaj

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Book cover for The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past, by Taras Grescoe with a graphic of a carrot top gone to seed.

A review of The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

Penelope Volinia

#FoodHistory #History #Flavour #FoodDiversity #Ecology #Gastronomy #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading #BookReview

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