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Reframing food as a commons in Canada: Learning from customary and contemporary Indigenous food initiatives that reflect a normative shift
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Jodi Koberinski, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Joseph LeBlanc
This paper interrogates the role of the dominant narrative of “food-as-commodity” in framing food systems policy in Canada. Human values shape policies, usually privileging those policies that are...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7813/?v=1
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The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Syma Habib
COVID-19 has revealed deep inequities in our food system. As goodwill and charity from this crisis disappears, and emergency supports begin to dwindle, we can anticipate increased food insecurity...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7794/?v=1
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Toward anti-colonial food policy in Canada? (Im)possibilities within the settler state
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Lauren Kepkiewicz, Sarah Rotz
This perspective piece teases out some of the tensions between the development of a national food policy, which has gained significant traction in Canada over the past few years, and Indigenous...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7569/?v=1
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Settler colonialism and the (im)possibilities of a national food policy
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sarah Rotz, Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz
In this perspectives piece we ask: is it possible for a national food policy to form the foundation for sustainable and equitable food systems in Canada? First, we argue that under the current...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7560/?v=1
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Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Shailesh Shukla, Jazmin Alfaro, Carol Cochrane, Cindy Garson, Gerald Mason, Jason Dyck, Brielle Beudin-Reimer, Janna Barkman
Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7533/?v=1
