All Categories (1-8 of 8)

1. A livelihood to feel good about: Enacting values around animals, land, and food outside of the agricultural core

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Elizabeh Finnis

   This paper presents and reflects on findings from ethnographic research conducted with small-scale farmers in the Parry Sound district, Ontario, Canada. The research highlights understandings of...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7775/?v=1

2. Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large

   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...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7762/?v=1

3. The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Erin Maureen Pratley, Belinda Dodson

   The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies. In...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7711/?v=1

4. Local food, farmland, and urban development: A case of land grabbing North American style

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Elizabeth Ann Smythe

   This article examines emerging forms of investment and land speculation and their implications for local food movements in urban areas. These investment involve  purchases of large tracts of...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7686/?v=1

5. Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Lenore Newman, Lisa Jordan Powell, Jennifer Nickel, Dylan Anderson, Lea Jovanovic, Eileen Mendez, Barbara Mitchell, Kathryn Kelly-Freiberg

   This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7595/?v=1

6. Organic vs. Local: Comparing individualist and collectivist motivations for “ethical” food consumption

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Shyon Baumann, Athena Engman, Emily Huddart-Kennedy, Josee Johnston

   We extend prior research on “ethical” food consumption by examining how motivations can vary across demographic groups and across kinds of ethical foods simultaneously. Based on a survey of food...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7598/?v=1

7. Creating a local food procurement community of practice: The Alberta Flavour Learning Lab

   19 Mar 2025 | Report | Contributor(s):

   By Mary Anne Beckie, Leanne Hedberg, Jessie Radies

   In order for local food initiatives (LFIs) to have a transformative effect on the larger food system, greater levels of economic, organizational and physical scale are needed. One way for LFIs to...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7548/?v=1

8. “Ditch red meat and dairy, and don’t bother with local food”: The problem with universal dietary advice aiming to save the planet (and your health)

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Ryan M Katz-Rosene

   In recent years there have been increasing calls for “global dietary transition” in order to save the planet and improve human health. One troubling development associated with this is the attempt...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7496/?v=1