Peter Andrée has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2024-2027 for his project “Living Relationships: Stories of Decolonizing Food System Transitions in Aotearoa and Canada”.
The dominant food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the primary cause of biodiversity loss. Food and agriculture have also long served as agents of settler-colonialism. This partnership research and knowledge mobilization project will gather and share stories of innovative ways of working together between Indigenous and settler partners responding to these challenges in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Canada.
The Living Relationships project brings together a diverse team of partner organizations and Nations (including Plenty Canada, the Ngai Tahu Centre, the First Nation of Na Cho Nyuk Dun, the Teme-Augama Anishinaabe and First Nations Technical Institute), Indigenous expert advisors and academic researchers with deep experience in sustainable agriculture, fisheries and food systems, law and governance, environmental protection, and Indigenous food sovereignty. It will be hosted by the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci) and co-directed by Prof. Peter Andrée (Political Science, Carleton) and Dr. John Reid (Ngai Tahu Centre, University of Canterbury). Dr. Gabriel Maracle (Political Science, Carleton) will also serve on the project’s Research Circle.