‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Contributor(s): Carrie Seay Fleming | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.528

Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation, however, has been met with little resistance. In this paper, I show how the tensions between anti-GM...

‘Paki go home’: The story of racism in the Gerrard India Bazaar

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributor(s): Aqeel Ihsan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.556

For South Asian Canadians who migrated to Toronto in the 1970s, the only place for them to purchase and consume South Asian foodstuffs would have been in the area referred to as ‘Little India’, which later developed into what is referred to today as the Gerrard India Bazaar (GIB). Little India...

“Dismantling the structures and sites that create unequal access to food:” : Paul Taylor and Elaine Power in conversation about food justice

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributor(s): Paul Taylor, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.567

In the summer of 2019, Elaine Power, Professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University, interviewed Paul Taylor for a research project on community food programs. Paul, a Black man, is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto and an anti-poverty activist. In...

“Good healthy food for all”: Examining FoodShare Toronto´'s approach to critical food guidance through a reflexivity lens

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Contributor(s): Alessandra Manganelli, Fleur Esteron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.503

By building community-based food systems informed by transformative ideologies and principles, Community-Based Food Organisation (CBFOs) can be understood as agents of critical food guidance from the bottom-up. This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity as pivotal to the implementation of...

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

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

“Ways of knowing” in food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.76

What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these questions at CAFS 2014, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies. The authors...

2017 Year-End Editorial

2025-07-10 17:50:27 | Contributor(s): Joel Heng Hartse | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.628

Traditionally, the editorial note for an issue or volume of a journal would start on page 1—or even page I—but one of the unique things about an article-based, open access publishing model is that we assemble the issue on the go—so rather than “introducing” Vol. 27 of the CJSDW/R, I find...

2018 Year-End Editorial

2025-07-10 17:50:23 | Contributor(s): Taylor Morphett | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.749

I am thrilled to be writing 2018’s Year-End Editorial for CJSDW/R. One of the (many) benefits to working on an ongoing open access journal is that the editorial occurs after the volume is complete. This allows for a review of the year that considers how the published pieces connect to one...

A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Contributor(s): Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.497

Food charters have been one means of mobilizing critical food guidance relevant discussions among stakeholders and policy makers in rural areas.  As actors in the rural food system of Grey and Bruce counties, we describe the counties' charter development led by the Food Security Action...

A problematic of plenty

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

A window, a mountain, a scape

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributor(s): L. Sasha Gora | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.676

An Editorial Passing of the Torch: Future Directions for CJSDW/R

2025-07-10 17:50:19 | Contributor(s): Kim M. Mitchell, Sean Zwagerman, Isabelle Clerc | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.841

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An unconditional basic income is necessary but insufficient to transition towards just food futures

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Aric McBay | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.533

In food systems scholarship, the case for basic income to reduce food insecurity is well-established. Less well-appreciated is the potential for basic income to support young farmers, improve rural vitality, promote gender equality and racial justice in agriculture, and assist farmers in...

Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributor(s): Kelsey Speakman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638

Flexitarianism was one of the top food trends of the summer in 2020. Characterizing reductions in meat eating as representative of the reflections on personal and societal health that were taking place at the time, Canada’s largest food retailer, Loblaw situated the company’s expanded...

Breadlines, victory gardens, or human rights?: Examining food insecurity discourses in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contributor(s): Audrey Tung, Reuben Rose-Redwood, Denise Cloutier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.530

Long before the exacerbating effects of COVID-19, household food insecurity (HFI) has been a persistent yet hidden problem in wealthy nations such as Canada, where it has been perpetuated in part through dominant discourses and practices. In this critique of HFI-related frameworks, we suggest...

Canadian Food Studies evolves

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins, Wesley Tourangeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.369

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Comment promouvoir la consommation de protéines végétales : Une revue de la littérature de presse

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributor(s): Coralie Gaudreau, Laurence Guillaumie, Emmanuelle Simon, Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, Olivier Boiral | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.613

The consumption of plant proteins has several benefits in terms of health, the environment and the development of the agri-food sector. Despite the advantages linked to the consumption of plant proteins, the consumption of meat often remains favored. This article presents a literature review...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributor(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...

Critical food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.588

In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and vulnerabilities of the current food system. Increasingly influential issues include environmental...

Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada: A closed-loop food system alternative to the food recovery hierarchy approach

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Contributor(s): Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.490

Food waste is a complex problem with far reaching negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. To identify appropriate solutions to address food waste, the food recovery hierarchy developed by the Environmental Protection Agency is currently the most popular guiding framework in food...