Archives: BC Food Systems Network

Friday, February 5, 2016

How can CCE support Indigenous struggles for land through food?

by Lauren Kepkiewicz, Community Food Security RA While many of the Community Food Security (CFS) Hub projects within the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project have sought to address structural impacts of patriarchy, capitalism, and racialization within the food system, the collective research generated from our project... More

Monday, December 7, 2015

A Primer on Indigenous Food, Land and Heritage

Produced by Dawn Morrison of the BC Food Systems Network Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty (a CFICE partner), this primer on Indigenous Food, Land and Heritage provides a brief background on the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, and provides information on Indigenous Land Ethic and Indigenous bio-cultural heritage in the... More

Friday, December 4, 2015

Decolonizing food systems

Abra Brynne, Director of Engagement and Policy at BC Food Systems Network and a CFICE Community Food Security hub partner, describes her experiences learning about how to decolonize food systems in this moving blog post, published December 3, 2015 on Rabble.ca. An excerpt from Abra Brynne’s article can be found below, along with a... More

Monday, October 19, 2015

Putting National Food Debates back on the Menu

When the ‘Community First’ project launched four years ago at Carleton University with a debate on ‘Food in the North,’ the idea of creating a national food policy in Canada was a murmur, a distant vision. What started as a SSHRC-funded partnership project blossomed into a national debate on “country food” and food sovereignty,... More

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