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

Current Focus:

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.