Nourishing Communities

Part I. Need for Transformations

1. Connecting Food Access and Housing Security: Lessons from Peterborough, Ontario
Patricia Ballamingie, Peter Andrée, Mary Anne Martin, Julie Pilson

2. Strengthening the Backbone: Local Food, Foreign Labour and Social Justice
Janet McLaughlin

3. Community Food Security in Pictou Landing First Nation
Pictou Landing First Nation, Irena Knezevic

4. The US Experience in Planning for Community Food Systems: An Era of Advocacy, Awareness, and (Some) Learning
Samina Raja, Subhashni Raj, Bartholomew Roberts

Part II. Pathways to Transformation

5. Can Community-Based Initiatives Address the Conundrum of Improving Household Food Access While Supporting Local Smallholder Farmer Livelihoods?
Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, Stephen Piazza, Scott Jarosiewicz

6. Nourishing Learning Environments: School Food Gardens and Sustainable Food Systems
Elizabeth Nowatschin, Karen Landman, Erin Nelson

7. Using a Complexity Lens to Address Local Food Dilemmas in Northern Ontario: The Viability of Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding
Mirella Stroink, Connie H. Nelson, Adam C. Davis

8. The Local Food Policy Audit: Spanning the Civic-Political Agrifood Divide
Jill K. Clark, Caitlin Marquis, Samina Raja

9. Supply Management as Food Sovereignty
Phil Mount

10. Navigating Spaces for Political Action: Victories and Compromises for Mexico’s Local Organic Movement
Erin Nelson, Laura Gómez Tovar

11. Communities of Food Practice: Regional Networks as Strategic Tools for Food Systems Transformation
Charles Z. Levkoe

12. Postscript
Alison Blay-Palmer, Irena Knezevic, Charles Z. Levkoe, Phil Mount, Erin Nelson

13. Erratum to: Strengthening the Backbone: Local Food, Foreign Labour and Social Justice
Janet McLaughlin

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Work and Community Development, Sustainable Development, Public Health, Food Science, Development and Health