Only about 1 in 5 of the Americans surveyed shop at farmers markets because they care a lot about food and enjoy buying, preparing and eating fresh food.
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Vineyards, dairies, market gardens, orchards and oyster leases once dotted Sydney. Much – but not all – has been lost to developers.
Community gardens can create access to local, fresh food that reduce reliance on convenience food.
Ensuring food security for the future means supporting food producers and building the infrastructure and policies that make local food accessible, affordable and sustainable for all.
Just as calls for health-care reform often focus on improving services, Canadians have the right to expect better outcomes from agricultural policies.
Local food systems are often hailed as being more sustainable than global food systems, but are these systems truly any better?
In the face of growing social and environmental challenges, organizations in the food and agriculture sector are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration.
A guaranteed basic income is a promising tool for contributing to sustainability and justice across agriculture and fishing sectors.
The Nordic diet places a greater emphasis on eating wholefoods and less (if any) processed foods.
A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
Indigenous foods such as cowpeas can improve people’s nutrition and help them cope with the hunger brought about by the effects of COVID-19 on foreign food imports.
Small-scale dairy farmers are struggling across the US – but in New Jersey they’ve developed a model that keeps their products and their customers local.
A nutritionist shares five habits becoming more common during the pandemic that she hopes will continue. Eating family meals together is just the start.
After the brief shock of food insecurity in the form of empty supermarket shelves, we might start thinking about having a Plan B and C based on local food sources and shorter supply chains.
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Foraging is a crucial part of many diets and should not be discouraged.
If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
There would be many benefits from a national school food program, including a chance to teach children healthy eating habits that could last a lifetime. Why can’t it happen?
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Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, University of The Fraser Valley
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Adjunct Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
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Assistant Professor in Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Urban Management & Planning, Griffith University
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Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
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Researcher at the University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Research Professional, Université Laval
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Professor of Zoology and Director, Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan