Food Law Crash Course By Abra Brynne In November 2016, FLEdGE researcher Abra Brynne attended Canda’s first ever conference on Food Law and Policy, in [...]

FLEdGE Gets Poetic: Faris Ahmed’s Fractured Food Systems Blues In 2016, FLEdGE researchers released the book Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative [...]

Open Food Network: Moving the Food Movement Open Food Network Canada (OFN) is a not-for-profit organization that is levelling the technology playing field and [...]

Supporting Community-Led Research in Délįnę by Neala MacLeod Farley Neala's reflection was originally posted in August, 2019.  Although it’s 11:00 pm you wouldn’t know [...]

Women Building Thriving Communities: Food, Nutrition, and Sustainable Practice On March 5th, 2020, Alison Blay-Palmer, Director of the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and [...]

FLEdGE Affiliates Talk Food Policy in Europe by Diana Bronson and Peter Andrée In May–June of 2018, we had and extraordinary opportunity to discuss what [...]

The Northwest Territories node was led by Andrew Spring, Associate Director of the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Associate Director of Research [...]

The Social Economy of Food Video Series This series, also available on the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems YouTube channel, showcases local [...]

At the Intersection of Food and Animal Law by Abra Brynne While attending the Future of Food Law & Policy in Canada conference in Halifax [...]

Agroecology Knowledge Exchange Workshop: Building a South-North Partnership The Agroecology Knowledge Exchange Workshop was held in Waterloo, Ontario from August 15–17, 2016, and was [...]

The Southern Ontario node was based out of Wilfrid Laurier University and was initially led by Erin Nelson during her time as a postdoctoral [...]

Indigenous Food Circle The Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy (TBAFS) worked to bring together local food stakeholders to take a coordinated approach to [...]

The Atlantic Canada Node was initially led by Irena Knezevic during her time at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was [...]

Making the FLEdGE Video, “Voices from the Network,” and Discovering the Patterns that Revealed Themselves by David Szanto I tend to think that I [...]

In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, Mandy Bayha, Director for Culture, Language, and Spirituality for the Délįnę Got'įnę Government, talks with [...]

Good Food Solutions: Building Sustainable Food Communities for All Canadians We have all read the headlines: climate change is worsening, the health crisis is [...]

The Northwestern Ontario Node was co-led by Charles Z. Levkoe, Connie Nelson, and Mirella Stroink, all from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Research interests [...]

The Québec Node was led by Laurette Dubé and Nii Addy, both from McGill University in Montréal, in collaboration with Anna-Liisa Aunio, from Dawson [...]

COVID-19 Reveals Gaps in our Food Systems by Alison Blay-Palmer, UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies This blog post first appeared in [...]

The Alberta and British Columbia Node was co-led by Mary Beckie, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and Kent Mullinix, Director of the [...]

Engaging Students with Food Industry and Community Stakeholders in Exploring Innovation to Address Complex Problems of Food Insecurity by Nii Addy and Joëlle Rondeau The [...]

In May 2019, Dr. Catherine Mah, Canada Research Chair in Promoting Healthy Populations and Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, presented expert witness to a committee [...]

Agroecology Field School Sparks Important Conversations by Bryan Dale From August 16th to 18th, 2018, FLEdGE and Just Food co-hosted an Agroecology Field School [...]

Wild Harvest as an Urban Practice by Irena Knezevic Windsor, Ontario, is in that part of Canada that geographically hooks into the US, and is [...]

2018 Agroecology Field School and Research Summit From August 16–18, 2018, a group of farmers, researchers, students, non-profit organizations, activists, and Indigenous leaders gathered [...]

Confronting Settler Colonialism in Food Systems: Exploring Food Movement Organizations in Australia and Canada by Michaela Bohunicky Settler colonialism is described as a structure, rather [...]

The Eastern Ontario node was led by Peter Andrée and Patricia Ballamingie and in collaboration with Irena Knezevic, all at Carleton University in Ottawa. [...]

Knowledge is the Key to Adaptation FLEdGE researcher Andrew Spring and community partners talk about Indigenous food systems research in a digital story about [...]

“Food is the Great Connector.” A Conversation with Charles Levkoe and Irena Knezevic About Teaching Food Studies Online Published in Food, Culture & Society in [...]