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A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz
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...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7807/?v=1
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"As we fish and farm"
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Lowitt
"As we fish and farm" is a short radio documentary that explores a changing food and fishing system in the Bonne Bay region on Newfoundland's west coast. It was developed as part of the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7714/?v=1
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Campus gardens: Food production or sense of place?
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Natalee Ridgeway, June Matthews
Campus gardens can provide opportunities for experiential learning and enhanced physical and mental health; however, they require substantial commitments of time, money, and effort. This formative...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7688/?v=1
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GFG - Global food governance in an era of crisis
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
There have been multiple and significant changes in the global food landscape when it comes to governance. The 2008 Global Food Crisis heightened attention to and action for food security; this is...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7678/?v=1
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SFSGEC - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
There is growing evidence and concern of the role of mainstream industrial agriculture in contributing to environmental degradation and global climate change. In this section we examine three...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7673/?v=1
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SFSGEC - SYNTHESIS - Sustainable food systems and global environmental change
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Helena Shilomboleni
This article responds to the debates surrounding how best to merge sustainable food systems and sustainability goals in the context of biofuel production, industrial livestock operations, and...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7677/?v=1
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The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives. Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7609/?v=1
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Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System by Pamela Mason and Tim Lang
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Sumner
This path-breaking book situates the thorny issue of diets firmly within what has been called the Anthropocene—the era of human-induced changes to the planet. Since many of these changes are...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7593/?v=1
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Food Counts: Food systems report cards, food sovereignty and the politics of indicators
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Charles Z. Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recognized that "current systems will be held in place insofar as these systems continue to be measured in terms of what industrial...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7552/?v=1
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Review of “Green meat? Sustaining eaters, animals, and the planet”
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Mason
Edited by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene and Sarah J. Martin, Green Meat? brings together a diverse collection of perspectives to explore the relationships between meat and the environment, while tackling the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7494/?v=1
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Review of "Take back the tray: Revolutionizing food in hospitals, schools, and other institutions"
19 Mar 2025 | Review | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Sumner
This book fills a gap that is decades old—the problem with institutional food. Long the butt of jokes, complaints, and recriminations, institutional food has often represented the epitome of the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7492/?v=1
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