Our work is guided by a focus on:
- A Food Systems approach
- Right Relations
- Just Transitions and ‘More than zero’
- Ideas, Ethics, Histories and Values
- Social Relations
Key Areas of Inquiry include the social relations across:
- People and Land
- Rural and Urban Canada
- Canada and the World
- People in/and The Food System
- Indigenous communities
- Evaluative Frameworks for Sustainability
Activities over 5 years include:
- Bringing academic and community expertise together across Canada/Indigenous Territories
- Support for three Indigenous Circles focused on food systems
- Identification of gaps in research and opportunities for investment
- Documenting innovative practices and approaches to food systems sustainability
- Facilitating research-policy roundtables, online discussions and one major conference
- Producing research and policy briefs
- Distributing seed funding for member’s community-partnered research
- Developing an Ask-for-Expertise function
- Establishing a trainee database with opportunities for students and recent graduates
Network Development
Please take our survey to become part of this growing network.
The survey is being conducted to identify SSH expertise across disciplines and across Canada/Indigenous Territories.
To read a copy of the survey questions before completing the survey, click here.
Please feel free to circulate through your networks.