Community Co-Lead<\/strong> <\/div> Academic Co-lead<\/strong> Through different demonstration projects<\/a>, they researched how to strengthen food security networks in Canada, and how to advance food security and food sovereignty in communities across the country.<\/p>\n Glenn Flett shows off fresh produce at Emma’s Acres. \u00a9 L.I.N.C. Society<\/p><\/div>\n The CFS hub worked from the position that Community Food Security occurs when all residents within a community:<\/p>\n Cathleen Kneen<\/a>, feminist and social activist with Food Secure Canada, was also the co-lead before she passed away in 2016.<\/p>\n Check out the CFS Hub\u2019s Partners<\/a>. <\/p>\n Check out the CFS\u00a0Hub’s news, resources, and research below.<\/p>\n Friday, April 5, 2019<\/p> Call for Applications -\u00a0Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) Steering Committee The mission of Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is to contribute to thriving, just, and sustainable societies by growing connections, capacity, and infrastructure for community-driven collaboration with post-secondary institutions across Canada. CCEC emerges... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, March 29, 2019<\/p> Monday March 25th's copy of\u00a0The Chronicle Journal, a newspaper published out of Thunder Bay, featured a familiar face: That of CFICE Researcher Charles Levkoe! On the heels of the "Understanding our Food Systems" gathering held in January 2019, Charles and colleague Jessica McLaughlin (co-ordinator of the Indigenous Food Circle), penned this... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, January 23, 2019<\/p> Conversations about disability in the workplace are long overdue. In this lively podcast, CFICE team members Kristina Reed, Kawsar Mohamed, and Nicole Bedford have a frank conversation about the challenges and rewards of being open to sharing, listening, and working together to make workplaces more accessible to all. Access a PDF version of the... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, November 19, 2018<\/p> by Alexandra Zannis, CFICE Communications Volunteer Since its inception in 2001, Food Secure Canada (FSC) has been a strong voice for food security and sovereignty advancements in Canada. Through partnerships with projects like Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE), FSC has brought their advocacy game to new heights. In contrast... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, October 15, 2018<\/p> CFICE Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Food Sovereignty) working group member Charles Levkoe, and CFICE partners Colin Anderson and Josh Brem-Wilson\u00a0have recently published the article,\u00a0People, power, change: three pillars of a food sovereignty research praxis. This article shares some of the knowledge gained in Phase I of CFICE through... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Tuesday, July 3, 2018<\/p> by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Post-secondary institutions have specific timelines, long processes for things like ethics approval or grant applications, and generally speaking, a complex power structure that can involve some firm top-down governance. These factors can easily complicate a campus-community partnership,... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, June 28, 2018<\/p> by Diana Bronson, CFICE Community Co-Lead and Peter Andr\u00e9e, CFICE Principal Investigator We recently had an extraordinary opportunity to discuss what is happening on food policy with European experts and organizations, as well as colleagues from around the world, in events in Brussels (29-30 May), Budapest (30 May-1 June) and Brighton (June 4-5).... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, June 18, 2018<\/p> Food hubs are engaged in a diverse range of activities in the food system, from managing the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of local food to addressing a broad range of social, economic, and ecological concerns. While most food hubs are responding to some key elements within the food supply chain, many address issues that... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, June 6, 2018<\/p> by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Entering into a partnership with post-secondary institutions (PSIs) can open a lot of doors for community-based organizations (CBOs), including access to certain funding opportunities, increased capacity, and the creation of new and collaborative networks with shared goals. CCE partnerships... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, May 17, 2018<\/p> By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part three of a three-part series on the ABC\u2019s of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we\u2019ve identified some strategies for sharing power. This article draws from interviews and focus... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, May 11, 2018<\/p> By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part two of a three-part series on the ABC\u2019s of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we\u2019ve identified some strategies for sharing resources in a way that empowers the community... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, May 9, 2018<\/p> By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part one of a three-part series on the ABC\u2019s of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we\u2019ve identified some of the main things we\u2019ve found important to consider when taking... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, April 5, 2018<\/p> On Friday March 23, 2018 CFICE and Food Secure Canada co-presented Governing A Food Policy for Canada: Challenges and opportunities for innovation.\u00a0Featuring\u00a0leading academic, industry, civil society and government thinkers, the panel presentation explored the challenges and opportunities\u00a0surrounding the development of\u00a0Food Policy for Canada,... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Tuesday, March 27, 2018<\/p> by Ethan Walker, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Back in February, you may have seen the announcement that Food Secure Canada (FSC) won a government contract to coordinate a Northern Food Systems Study funded by the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Typically, government contracts are given to academic... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, February 28, 2018<\/p> Original article posted February 7 by Food Secure Canada Food Secure Canada, in collaboration with a pan-Canadian network of researchers and community partners with expertise in Northern food security and sustainable food systems, is undertaking a study to synthesize research and knowledge on the state of food systems and food security in the... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, February 14, 2018<\/p> Nourish: The Future of Food in Health Care is a collaborative project led by the McConnell Foundation in partnership with Food Secure Canada (FSC), HealthCareCAN, Health Care Without Harm, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and other emerging partners. Nourish seeks to host a Health System Impact Fellow (2018) being funded by the Canadian... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, February 2, 2018<\/p> Roots to Harvest is a small, grassroots organization and every position involves elements of\u00a0organizational development and maintenance. We aim to foster a culture that is transparent, inclusive, progressive, and productive. As staff, we work collaboratively, we work hard, we do what needs to be done, and we try to keep the big picture in... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, December 20, 2017<\/p> Indigenous people occupy a delicate and critical space in relation to food security and food system research, and far too often such research has been rejected by Indigenous communities as disrespectful of their culture or even downright exploitive. In \u201cBritish Columbia,\u201d cross-cultural dialogue has been embraced by the BC Food Systems Network... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Tuesday, December 19, 2017<\/p> Our partners in the Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Food Sovereignty) working group have been busy this year advocating for a National Food Policy in Canada. They have also been busily writing up the lessons learned from this work in a new journal article titled\u00a0A people-centred approach to food policy making: Lessons from Canada\u2019s... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, December 18, 2017<\/p> Originally posted by Food Secure Canada, Dec. 13, 2017. Read the full article here. On December 11, the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food released its\u00a0report\u00a0on\u00a0A Food Policy for Canada, following several months of witness testimony and submissions from a variety of stakeholders, including Food Secure Canada and several of its... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, December 1, 2017<\/p> Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a critical look at attempts to improve the dialogue between people... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, November 22, 2017<\/p> CFICE Academic Co-lead Charles Levkoe has been featured in several news articles and interviews recently with the roll out of a new food security pilot program at Lakehead University. The program is being funded through a grant provided to Meal Exchange by the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security. The goal of... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, November 16, 2017<\/p> Food Secure Canada (FSC) is looking for a coordinator for an ambitious three-year project Vision 2020: Convening Conversations and Tabling an Agenda of Solutions for a Food Secure Canada. The coordinator will be responsible for building, leading and supporting a Community of practice on food security, as well as creating a framework for a... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, October 23, 2017<\/p> In this journal article titled Engaged Pedagogy and Transformative\u00a0Learning in Graduate Education: A Service-Learning Case Study, the authors use a case study of a graduate-level service-learning course at the University of Toronto to assess the challenges associated with service-learning and highlight\u00a0opportunities for students, faculty,... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, October 20, 2017<\/p> In this journal article titled Building effective relationships for community-engaged scholarship in Canadian food studies, the authors take a look at the question of how community-engaged scholars can best conduct research and teach in ways that support their community partners. This article was first published online May 2014 in volume 1(1) of... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, October 12, 2017<\/p> by Amanda Wilson, Community Co-Lead, CCE Brokering (Food Sovereignty) Working Group One of the first projects I became involved in when I joined CFICE was developing a peer review process for a series of discussion papers mapping the food policy landscape in Canada. It was part of a research collaboration between Food Secure Canada... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, October 11, 2017<\/p> The Arrell Food Prizes recognize global excellence in food innovation and community impact. The Arrell Food Institute recognizes global leaders who are ensuring future food security for the planet, and hopes to inspire new leaders to take bold steps towards change. Scientific excellence and community engagement are necessary to overcome the... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, September 8, 2017<\/p> CFICE Food Security Hub partner, L.I.N.C. (Long-term Inmates Now in the Community), is a non-profit charity that works to develop positive understanding and dialogue between prison institutions, long-term offenders and the community. L.I.N.C. is the first and only awareness group of its kind run by ex-offenders in Canada. It was founded by Glen... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, August 10, 2017<\/p> by Food Secure Canada Canadians are concerned with the health and sustainability of the food they eat, and, as more and more people struggle to put good food on the table, our food system has become an issue of increasing priority. Unhealthy diets claim more lives than any other cause of death; our food... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, July 19, 2017<\/p> by Charles Levkoe and Amanda Wilson; published on The Conversation Canada In late May, Canada\u2019s agriculture minister launched consultations to inform a national\u00a0food policy for Canada.\u00a0This initiative built on a\u00a0mandate letter\u00a0from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to \u201cdevelop a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Wednesday, July 5, 2017<\/p> As part of its process for developing a National Food Policy for Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) convened a Food Policy Summit in Ottawa on June 22-23. The two-day event brought together over 300 diverse stakeholders from across the country to brainstorm, discuss and workshop key principles and priorities for a national food... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, June 26, 2017<\/p> A new book, titled Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways, has been published and explores\u00a0how a systems approach to food movements can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration. The book features chapters by\u00a0several CFICE members (both past and present), including Charles Levkoe,... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Thursday, June 22, 2017<\/p> by Biatris Lasu, CFICE Volunteer The national charitable organization Meal Exchange, perhaps known for its seminal report Hungry for Knowledge will be hosting its National Student Food Summit this year at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario from June 22 to June 25th. The Meal Exchange\u2019s National Student Food Summit is Canada\u2019s largest... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Friday, May 26, 2017<\/p> Reposting from Wilfrid Laurier University WATERLOO \u2013 Researchers at Wilfrid Laurier University, Lakehead University and the University of Toronto have\u00a0taken a first step toward producing a comprehensive report card on the sustainability of Canada\u2019s food\u00a0systems. Their new report, \u201cFood Counts: A Pan-Canadian Sustainable Food Systems Report... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div> Monday, May 22, 2017<\/p> by Eden Suh, CFICE Volunteer The World Health Organization (WHO) states that \u201cfood security, food access, and food use\u201d are the three main pillars to food security, and while food security is prominently an issue in the developing world, recent years show that food security is a rising issue both globally and domestically. Despite... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div> CFICE’s Community Food Security Hub The Community Food Security (CFS) hub examined the community-campus partnership models and best practices used to advance the food security and food sovereignty agenda of their lead community partner, Food Secure Canada. 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\n<\/a>Cathleen Kneen<\/a>*, Food Secure Canada<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Charles Levkoe<\/a>, Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n![\"Text](\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/Food-Soveriegnty-Graphic-240x116.png\")
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\nSee the CFS Hub’s Bibliography<\/a>.<\/p>\nCommunity Food Security\u00a0News, Resources, and Research<\/h3>\n
Join the CCEC Steering Committee — Apply by April 22, 2019<\/h3>
CFICE co-lead places article in The Chronicle Journal<\/h3>
A conversation about disability in the workplace<\/h3>
How communities are using CCE to lead the fight for a Food Secure Canada<\/h3>
Journal Article: People, power, change: three pillars of a food sovereignty research praxis<\/h3>
Expectations and timelines when working with a post-secondary institution<\/h3>
CFICE\/FLEdGE Researchers Talk Food Policy in Europe<\/h3>
Journal Article: Building Sustainable Food Systems through Food Hubs: Practitioner and Academic Perspectives<\/h3>
The Benefits of Working with Post-Secondary Institutions<\/h3>
The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Power<\/h3>
The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Resources<\/h3>
The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Responsibilities<\/h3>
Video: Governing A Food Policy for Canada: Challenges and opportunities for innovation<\/h3>
Food Secure Canada won a government contract and your community organization can too!<\/h3>
CFICE Partner, Food Secure Canada, to Coordinate Study on Northern Sustainable Food Systems<\/h3>
Nourish: The Future of Food in Health Care seeks to host a CIHR Health System Impact Fellow<\/h3>
Job Opportunity: Northern Food Systems Community Project Coordinator — Apply by Feb. 16, 2018<\/h3>
Report: Cross-Cultural Food Networks: Building and Maintaining Inclusive Food Security Networks to Support Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communities<\/h3>
Academic Article: A people-centred approach to food policy making: Lessons from Canada\u2019s People\u2019s Food Policy project<\/h3>
New Parliamentary Report on Food Policy Echos Many FSC Ideas<\/h3>
New Book: Everyday Experts: How people\u2019s knowledge can transform the food system<\/h3>
CFICE Co-lead Charles Levkoe discusses LakeheadU\/Meal Exchange Food Security Pilot<\/h3>
Job Opportunity: Food Secure Canada seeks Coordinator — Apply by November 20, 2017<\/h3>
Journal Article: Engaged Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in Graduate Education: A Service-Learning Case Study<\/h3>
Journal Article: Building effective relationships for community-engaged scholarship in Canadian food studies<\/h3>
Community-Academic Collaboration in Peer Review<\/h3>
Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards – Nominations open to Jan. 31, 2018<\/h3>
CFICE Partner Featured in Small Farm Canada Magazine!<\/h3>
Five Big Ideas for a Better Food System<\/h3>
The promise of a national food policy for Canada<\/h3>
Food Movement Gathers Momentum at Ottawa Food Policy Summit<\/h3>
Book: Nourishing Communities – From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways<\/h3>
Meal Exchange holds National Student Food Summit June 22-25<\/h3>
News Release: New national report card on the sustainability of Canada\u2019s food systems<\/h3>
Food Insecurity and Balcony Gardening<\/h3>