We take a community-based, participatory approach to research. Our research is community-driven. Our practitioner partners provide input into our research scope and questions.
They also help us decide who we talk to as we gather information about how to make food systems more sustainable.
FLEdGE: Food, Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged, is a dynamic and growing partnership with research connections across North America and around the world. Kaitlin Kok, a FLEdGE Research Assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, has created an interactive map to help you to find FLEdGE sustainable food system projects in your area and to see how our network is connected. Continue reading “FLEdGE Partnership Map”
We are linked to not-for-profits and private businesses doing sustainable food systems work. We also seek input from government officials. We work throughout the food values web and seek to engage with and support farmers through to consumers in the quest for community-focused, sustainable food systems.
Our National Advisory Committee (NAC) represents the seven research nodes across Canada. Building from our roots in Ontario north, south and east, the other nodes are centred in the Northwest Territories, Alberta and British Columbia, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
Our International Advisory Committee (IAC) complements the work of the National Advisory Committee. The IAC includes experts from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, France, Wales, the Netherlands, Italy and South Africa. Three Working Groups explore and develop research related to agro-ecology, territorial food systems and related metrics, and innovative governance.
