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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Mar 4
Are you a #FoodStudies academic? Or a #FoodActivist? Dig #FoodScholarship? Into #OpenScholarship?

Let us know if you belong in this starter pack!

#Canada #Canadian #CanAg #Agriculture #Nutrition #FoodMovements #FoodPolitics #FoodSovereignty

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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 1d
What works do you include in the food studies canon?

#Food #FoodStudies #FoodScholarship #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading #BlackFoodGeographies #FoodSystems #FoodJustice #WhiteSupremacy
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 2d
Who has inspired your scholarship?

#Food #FoodScholarship #FoodStudies #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Geography #EnvironmentalStudies #Sustainability
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 5d
Finn Meyer Cook, a long time CAFS member and VIU professor, in Palestine solidarity in Nanaimo continues as UN commission declares genocide in Gaza. Read the full article here: foodstudies.info/resources/co...

#Gaza #RightToFood #Palestine #Food
Screenshot from the article capturing Finn Meyer Cook in front of a bookshelf with text: VIU professor among hundreds of food scholars who sign letter to Prime Minister Social work professor Finn Meyer Cook is one of hundreds of food scholars who are calling on Canada to take economic and diplomatic action against Israel for causing widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mick Sweetman / The Discourse. Framed with text “In the news, and Canadian Association for Food Studies, L'association canadienne des études sur l'alimentation.”
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 6d
Support open access food scholarship.
Promote critical, collaborative work in food and food systems.
Become a CAFS-ACEA member today!

#Food #FoodScholarship #FoodStudies #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #Nutrition #Agriculture #OpenAccess #KnowledgeSharing

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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 7d
Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures

#Immigration #IndigenousKnowledge #LearningAlliances #Placemaking #FoodJustice #PublicLibraries #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice

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Food existing in a web of ever-growing relationships. By Deborah Dutta. A word web showing the connections between the following words: MARKET, SEEDS, ECOLOGY, LAND, WATER, SOIL, HEALTH, LABOUR, LAND, ECONOMY, NUTRITION, LAND RIGHTS, STORIES, FOOD, CULTURE, RECIPES, KNOWLEDGE, SLOW FOOD, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, LIVESTOCK, and FARMING PRACTICES.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 8d
Fostering innovation in Arctic food industries

Lisa F. Clark
Andrey Mineev
David Natcher

#Arctic #FoodSystems #Indigenous #Innovation #Policy #RegionalHubs #ValueChain

#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing
#Food

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 9d
Toward a national school food program in Canada
Understanding current landscape and context

#Children #Diet #SchoolFood #Health #Equity #Nutrition #SchoolFoodProgram #NationalSchoolFoodProgram #Canada

#OpenAccess

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 12d
News from Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation

#Podcast #FoodPodcast #FoodStudies #AI #Editorial #DigestingFoodStudies #NewPodcast

#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing
#Food

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. Text overlay: Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation (CFS/RCÉA), Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 13d
Water and Climate Resilience Across Generations
Community Research Participants Needed
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM (lunch at 12:00 PM)
#Water #Toronto
Water and Climate Resilience Across Generations Community Research Participants Needed Wednesday, October 1, 2025 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM (lunch at 12:00 PM) Toronto Metropolitan University – Centre for Urban Innovation, Room CUI 219 (44 Gerrard St. E.) Join us for a unique community conversation that brings together youth (18–25) and seniors/Elders from diverse communities to share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives on climate change, water, and resilience in the Greater Toronto and Great Lakes region. Your voice matters in shaping how we understand and respond to water and climate challenges! Light refreshments & lunch provided $100 grocery gift card in appreciation of your time Register and/or learn more: Email: ashankla@torontomu.ca Phone: 289-395-3053 This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Global Center for Climate Change and Transboundary Waters, in affiliation with Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 14d
We are so excited to share with you our plans for 2026. Don’t miss our announcement!

Sign up for the CAFS listserv by entering your email at the bottom of our website.

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#Food #FoodStudies #FoodScholars #FoodActivists #Community #FoodMovement
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 15d
Choux Questionnaire

Bryan Dale

#Choux #Questionnaire #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialMovements #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Labour #Equality

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 16d
Review of Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity

Ethan Shapiro

#Beer #GlobalTrade #GlobalCommodity #BeerTech #Commodity #FoodAndDrink #BeerHistory #History #BookReview #BooksAboutBeer

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Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. The book cover has a graphic of a pint and some hops in front of a globe.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 19d
Review of Serving the public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals and Prisons

Jennifer Sumner

#GoodFood #Revolution #HospitalFood #PrisonFood #SchoolFood #PublicInstitutions #BookReview #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading

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Serving the public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals and Prisons by Kevin Morgan. Book Cover with graphic of a fork spearing a British pound symbol.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 20d
Review of Eating Like a Mennonite

Aqeel Ihsan

#Community #Diaspora #Eating #Food #Mennonite #Migration #BooksAboutFood #CurrentlyReading #BookReview

#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing

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Marlene Epp's Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders book cover with earthy coloured graphics indicating grains.
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Lesley Frank @franklyless.bsky.social · 21d
Tune in to listen to our chat about infant food insecurity on the new @foodstudies.ca podcast #digestingfoodstudies
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Infant Food Insecurity | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Whether you breastfeed, formula feed, or do both, securing sustenance to infants can be both fundamental and fraught. Lesley Frank has been doing research on first food systems and infant-and-caregive...
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 21d
Fostering innovation in Arctic food industries

Lisa F. Clark
Andrey Mineev
David Natcher

#Arctic #FoodSystems #Indigenous #Innovation #Policy #RegionalHubs #ValueChain

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 22d
The first six episodes are now available on most major podcasting platforms, and new episodes will be released every two weeks. (You can also go to rss.com/podcasts/dig... to listen on your computer.)
Digesting Food Studies | Podcast on RSS.com
Digesting Food Studies is a podcast that helps break down research on food systems into manageable portions. It’s for listeners who are learning and teaching about food studies, for those working in f...
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 22d
Announcing the launch of the new Canadian Food Studies podcast, “Digesting Food Studies”! Episodes range from food justice to sustainability to intercultural identity, from the technologies of agriculture to the relationships embedded in Indigenous foodways. #digestingfoodstudies
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 22d
Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures

Dutta
Takeuchi
Chowdhury
Edworthy
Eves
Habib
Haroon
Thraya
Wolf Leg

#Immigration #IndigenousKnowledge #LearningAlliances #FoodJustice #PublicLibraries #Climate #Environment

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Food existing in a web of ever-growing relationships. By Deborah Dutta. A word web showing the connections between the following words: MARKET, SEEDS, ECOLOGY, LAND, WATER, SOIL, HEALTH, LABOUR, LAND, ECONOMY, NUTRITION, LAND RIGHTS, STORIES, FOOD, CULTURE, RECIPES, KNOWLEDGE, SLOW FOOD, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, LIVESTOCK, and FARMING PRACTICES. A live sketch of the symposium presentation by artist and researcher Shima Dadkhahfard (@aaaart_gallery). The sketch illustrates pathways to inclusion in community-based research and climate action based on food justice.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 23d
Feeding children while Asian
Immigrant families’ experiences with school lunches in Canada

Yukari Seko
Veen Wong
Clara Juando-Prats
Lina Rahouma
Jessica Yu
Nayanee Henry-Noel

#AsianImmigrants #Family #Lunch #SchoolLunch #Shaming #Canada

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A collage of dumplings in a thermos made by a grade 4 participant from Chinese cultural background.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 26d
Food security, food sovereignty, and the neoliberal food system in Saskatchewan

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#FoodSecurity #LivingHeritage #RuralFood #FoodSystems #Saskatchewan #UrbanFood

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 27d
“We shouldn’t always have to be resilient”
A critical discourse analysis of food system resilience and equity in Toronto, Ontario, in an era of global polycrisis

Jenelle Regnier-Davies
Sara Edge

#Canada #FoodPolicy #Resilience #Inequity #Toronto

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries. From the cover of Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): On Resilience, Adaptability, Cooperation, and Innovation.
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 28d
Assessing and addressing food waste in university dining
A dual-design study at Brescia University College in Ontario, Canada

Jessica Vader
Victoria Hanson
Latifeh Ahmadi

#FoodWaste #PlateWaste #DiningHall #UniversityRestaurants #UniversityStudents

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Assessing and addressing food waste in university dining: A dual-design study at Brescia University College in Ontario, Canada | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'...
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · 29d
Food Systems and Agricultural Scholars and Practitioners Demand Escalation of Canada’s Response to Israel’s Use of Mass Starvation as a Tool of Genocide Against Palestinians

#Food #FoodSovereignty #RightToFood #Palestine #TurtleIsland #FoodSystems

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A turtle draped with the Palestinian flag with text “Food Sovereignty from Palestine to Turtle Island.”
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Canadian Association for Food Studies @foodstudies.ca · Sep 8
Toward a national school food program in Canada
Understanding current landscape and context

Maximova
Dabravolskaj
Tran
Leatherdale
Patte
Veugelers

#Children #Diet #SchoolFood #Health #Equity #Nutrition #SchoolFoodProgram #Canada

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A picnic table covered in summer produce: red, orange, and yellow tomatoes, corn, okra, basil, nasturtium flowers, eggplants and aronia berries.
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