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, collaboration, and collective learning, we invite your ongoing contributions to this resource. To add a resource to the list, please fill out the Compendium’s Google form.

We would also note two things:

• First, this list is inherently political, and while we seek to shed light on systemic racism and oppression within the Canadian food system, we recognize that lists are reductive and not representative of all BIPOC experiences.
• Second, in as much as this process represents an informal survey of critical anti-racism food systems work in Canada, we draw a tentative conclusion: There is limited food systems scholarship that attends explicitly to systemic racism and oppression in the Canadian food system.

We look forward to ongoing and active engagement with this work moving forward.