Please join us on Thursday, November 28th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for our next Waterloo Food Issues Group (WatFIG) meeting.
We will be meeting in Environment Building 1, room 221 (EV1-221).
Photo by Sarah Martin
At this meeting, Charles Levkoe, who has recently completed the PhD program in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, will be visiting us from Toronto to discuss his latest research on local food systems and community food networks.
"In this this talk, I will present a brief overview of my recent research that studies the emerging food movement in Canada. I will focus on collaborations among alternative food initiatives and the possibilities for food system transformation. My work builds on the work of many critics who have identified important challenges, but tend to consider place-based food initiatives as operating independently on particular projects, with specific claims, or in isolated sectors of the food system. There has been little documentation or analysis situating these initiatives within a broader community of practice. Using a community-based action approach, I have explored the development of provincial food networks in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia. I pay particular attention to efforts that foster and maintain these networks by exploring their history, structure and processes of collaboration.”
I hope you can join us! Please feel free as always to bring your lunch.