Future Food System Research Priorities: A Sustainable Food Systems Perspective from Ontario, Canada

Blay-Palmer, Alison; Knežević, Irena; Andrée, Peter; Ballamingie, Patricia; Landman, Karen; Mount, Phil; Nelson, Connie; Nelson, Erin; Stahlbrand, Lori; Stroink, Mirella L.; Skinner, Kelly

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2013.034.029

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“…PAR methodologies have been used in building food systems across Canada (Blay-Palmer et al, 2013), including Indigenous communities . Consistent with other work in the North, which utilizes Community Based Research (CBR) approaches (Berkes & Jolly, 2001;Pearce et al, 2009a;McGregor, Bayha, & Simmons, 2010;Armitage et al, 2011;Tondu et al, 2014), research was conducted alongside representatives of the community, observing -but also contributing totheir activities.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change, community capitals, and food security: Building a more sustainable food system in a northern Canadian boreal community

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Carter²,

Blay-Palmer

2018

CanFoodStudies

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Canada’s North offers unique food systems perspectives. Built on close cultural and spiritual ties to the land, the food systems within many northern communities still rely on the harvesting and gathering of traditional food and function through the sharing of food throughout the community. However, social, economic and environmental pressures have meant that some communities rely more on food purchased from the stores, which can be unhealthy and expensive, leading to high rates of food insecurity and chronic health problems in many communities in the North. Northern communities are now dealing with the impacts of climate change that are increasing pressure on the food system by limiting both access to the land and the availability of traditional food sources. This research presents a case study from the Northern Canadian boreal community of Kakisa, Northwest Territories. Using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology, community members play an active role in identifying threats to the community food system, as well as developing community-based solutions to foster adaptation and transformation of their food systems to become more resilient to the impacts of climate change. By using the Community Capitals Framework to identify multiple stressors on the food system this research illustrates how a community can allocate available capitals to adapt to the impacts of climate change as well as identify which capitals are required to build a more sustainable food system.

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confidence: 99%

Climate change, community capitals, and food security: Building a more sustainable food system in a northern Canadian boreal community

Spring

Carter²,

Blay-Palmer

2018

CanFoodStudies

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“…Further exploration uncovers that sustainable food issues and their contributions to community resilience in Canada have primarily been studied in urban spaces and due to community engagement efforts (Landman, 2011;MacRae and Donahue, 2013;Blay-Palmer et al, 2013a). In contrast, both academic and policy discourse in the EU are more centered around rurality, namely through the efforts made by EU policies to adopt stronger rural development policies (De Schutter, 2012;Marsden and Sonnino, 2005;Richardson, 2000).…”

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The New Governance of Sustainable Food Systems: Shared Insights from Four Rural Communities in Canada and the EU

Clément¹

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For over half a century, industrial agricultural and food systems have developed to the detriment of rural spaces. Alongside modernization and growth, many local communities have experienced not only economic loss, but a loss of purpose and identity as well. As one response to these changes, sustainable local food systems (SLFS) initiatives are being pursued by a growing number of communities. Their belief is that an alternative paradigm based on SLFSs is needed to support vibrant rural livelihoods: by challenging unequal power relationships between food system actors, by repairing the rift between human and natural environments, or simply by breathing new socio-economic life into v needed a firm nudge!). Always pushing the boundaries of my thoughts and offering advice exactly when I felt stuck in my own thoughts were an incredible motivator.

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“…To achieve these outcomes, many local food champions focus on one area, such as economic development or food access, but the literature rarely characterizes organizations that address more than one area (Blay-Palmer et al, 2013). A proceedings report from an evaluator meeting of national health funders 1 in 2015 concluded that multicomponent, multisector, multisetting, and multilevel interventions have the best record for achieving successful outcomes ("Evaluating obesity prevention efforts," 2015).…”

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“…The more diverse approach may be able to approach issues using multiple strategies from different areas of work and reinforce locally relevant culture from the unique perspective of each organization. We believe this occurs because organizations approaching local food systems development from distinct angles and with differing, yet complementary, goals can effectively create larger systems changes (Blay-Palmer et al, 2013;Wright, Score, & Conner, 2007). One such multipronged effort is the focus of this paper.…”

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Shepherding Community Engagement to Strengthen the Local Food System in Northeast Iowa

Enderton

Bregendahl

Topaloff

2017

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Future Food System Research Priorities: A Sustainable Food Systems Perspective from Ontario, Canada

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Climate change, community capitals, and food security: Building a more sustainable food system in a northern Canadian boreal community

Climate change, community capitals, and food security: Building a more sustainable food system in a northern Canadian boreal community

The New Governance of Sustainable Food Systems: Shared Insights from Four Rural Communities in Canada and the EU

Shepherding Community Engagement to Strengthen the Local Food System in Northeast Iowa

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