CAFS is hiring! / L’ACÉA embauche !
CAFS is currently accepting applications for a new Administrator and Research Coordinator. We encourage all interested individuals who meet the qualifications to apply. See the description below or download the PDF. The application deadline is January 30th, 2026. Position Overview The Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) invites applications for the position of Administrator and Research Coordinator. This part-time contract supports the core operations, research activities, communications, and strategic initiatives of a national scholarly association dedicated to interdisciplinary food studies. Working closely with the CAFS Board, the Administrator and Research Coordinator plays a central role in sustaining the organization’s day-to-day [...]
Food Systems and Agricultural Scholars and Practitioners Demand Escalation of Canada’s Response to Israel’s Use of Mass Starvation as a Tool of Genocide Against Palestinians
As part of the work of the CAFS/ACÉA ad hoc Committee on Palestine and the Right to Food over 600 food, nutrition, and agricultural scholars, students, workers, practitioners and organizations signed a letter that was delivered to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand, demanding an immediate escalation of Canada’s response to Israel’s use of mass starvation as a tool of genocide against the Palestinian people. The signatories call for the Canadian government to immediately enact all economic, diplomatic, and political measures available to end its complicity with Israel’s genocide, and to pressure the Israeli [...]
INFOLETTRE/ NEWSLETTER
Greetings, CAFS Community— We are now collecting submissions for the next CAFS newsletter. The submission deadline is April 30, 2025 at noon. All submissions MUST be sent as Word documents (.docx or .doc) to newsletter@foodstudies.ca. Please send tables, photos, and figures as separate, high-resolution files (.jpg, .png. or .pdf). This is a great opportunity to share your research, expand your networks, and get constructive feedback. Please consider submitting: —major research updates, works in progress, or project summaries (250–500 words) —abstracts of forthcoming journal articles, book announcements, events, job postings, other news (150–200 words) —photography, graphics, or audio/video work (links), with [...]
Food, Empire and Colonialism: From Palestine to Turtle Island
Organized by the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) ad hoc Committee on Palestine and the Right to Food In this discussion, panelists will examine the relationship between food, empire and colonialism, drawing connections between the current genocide in Gaza with colonial projects across Africa and Turtle Island. Panelists will discuss how imperial and colonial regimes have and continue to use deliberate starvation and the weaponization of food and food growing lands as a means of genocidal violence. Amid the horrific settler colonial violence happening in Gaza, we also raise crucial questions about the role of food in culture, [...]
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Resources on Food and Racism in So-Called Canada
As part of CAFS’ commitment to the work of anti-racism, described in part in our statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism, we are compiling an open access list of resources at the intersection of food systems, racialized violence, and oppression. The first iteration of CAFS Compendium of Resources on Food and Racism in So-Called Canada was crowdsourced through a call-out to our listserv and network. We asked for recommendations for a diverse range of resources including, but not limited to, scholarship, websites, organizations, webinars, podcasts and journalism, focused within the Canadian context. In the interest of transparency, [...]
Webinar: The Many Truths of Food and Nutrition
Join us for a lively, fast-paced webinar with critical nutrition scholars Alissa Overend and Jennifer Brady, as they unpack the contextual nature of “truth” when it comes to food. As Oscar Wilde wrote, “the truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This deep dive into nutrition, health and wellness, science, and commercial messaging features our presenters discussing: Alissa’s powerful new book, Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture “Truths that make us mad!” (including Canada’s Food Guide, food labelling and advertising, singular food truths) Ways for the rest of us to adapt our own understanding of nutritional science [...]
Just Food conference poster art
These beautiful illustrations, part of the Just Food conference artwork, are by DC Artist and Educator Aaron Bland. More information is available on the Inprnt website, where you can also purchase posters of his work.
Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw Fishery
Statement on the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw Moderate Livelihood Fishery We, the editorial collective for the Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, the official journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies / L’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CAFS/ACÉA), along with the board of CAFS/ACÉA, are deeply concerned about the unlawful and unjust actions being taken in Nova Scotia that threaten the lives and livelihoods of the Sipekne’katik peoples. We urge the federal government to work in full support of the inherent rights and treaty rights of Mi’kmaq people to hunt, fish, and gather, as protected [...]
Racialized police violence and systemic racism
CAFS statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism The full statement is also available as a PDF file in English and French. We will post updates and next steps to this page. On behalf of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), we write this letter to acknowledge the historic and contemporary systemic oppressions that are part of a living reality for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour across the globe. The consequences of such inequities are visible in the recent deaths of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, David McAtee, Chantel Moore, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, among others, [...]
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