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Evolution | Revolution

22 February, 2011 | Nicola Ross

ImageAT THE Spirit Tree Estate Cidery, Tom Wilson and Nicole Judge are intent on answering customers’ questions. Their infant son sits on the sales counter resting against his mother as if he’s spent his life in this pose. The young couple looks tired, but totally engaged. They are living their dream, after all.

Published in: Just Food 37.2

Sovereignty Now!

22 February, 2011 | Nettie Wiebe, Hannah Wittman, and Annette Aurélie Desmarais

CURRENT FOOD, economic and environmental crisesare marked by volatile food prices, urban food riots and the continued displacement of the rural poor – a clear indication that the dominant model of agricultural development has not succeeded in eradicating poverty or world hunger. La Vía Campesina, an international agrarian movement that promotes peasant and family-farm sustainable agriculture, argues that these linked crises result directly from an industrial, capital-intensive and corporate-led model of agriculture and that the time for “food sovereignty” has come.

Published in: Just Food 37.2

Taking It All In

20 February, 2011 | Wayne Roberts

THE FIRST and most important thing to say about food – certainly in 1000 words, but just as certainly if I had 1000 pages – is that there is no first and most important thing to know about food.

Published in: Just Food 37.2

Editorial: Is It a Revolution?

19 February, 2011 | Nicola Ross
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IN 2009, the CBC ran a series called The Great Food Revolution. If you doubt that something as simple as what we choose to put in our mouths can have a revolutionary effect, listen to episode four: "Food of the Future." In it, the CBC notes, "How we cook, what we eat, the decisions we make will come from chefs, teachers, activists, scientists, and farmers." Not, please note, from government, agribusiness and the organizations that represent them. The power in food and agriculture lies with the people.

Published in: Just Food 37.2

Street Food

28 May, 2009 | Mairon Giovani Bastos Lima

When I arrived from Brazil to start my studies in Canada, I felt ready to live in a new country and ready to adjust myself to a different food culture. I still believe I was right about the first feeling. But it took me only a few hours to realize how mistaken I was about the second. ...

Growing Organic

28 May, 2009 | Bob Burtt

The number of farmers clad in their traditional black suits in ­attendance at this year’s organic conference in Guelph, Ontario should put smiles on the faces of people hoping to see an increased supply of chemical-free produce in Southwestern Ontario. A group of Mennonite farmers in and around ­Waterloo Region, many of whom use horse-drawn buggies or bicycles as their mode of transportation, are at the forefront of a new movement that aims to produce more locally grown, organic food.

Bringing the Farm to the Inner City

28 May, 2009 | Vivian Belik
 In Winnipeg’s inner city, grocery stores that sell fresh affordable produce are hard to come by, so low-income residents are more apt to buy potato chips than fresh potatoes. ... Buy this issue | Buy this issue in pdf | Subscribe

News & Notes

28 May, 2009

Bayer Blames God: llegal GMO releases

Whole New BALLE Game: Business alliance for local ­living

Burgerville: A new approach to fast food

Letter from Haliburton

27 May, 2009 | Louise Berry

The idea of replacing a fossil fuel, gasoline, with a renewable one, fuel-ethanol derived from corn, may seem like a smart green idea. Scratch the surface, however, and you discover that corn-ethanol doesn’t stack up well against other conventional sources of energy. But protecting the environment is not the prime motivator for our neighbours to the south. ...

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