The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System
Alternative food initiatives have been challenged by critics to address the long-term, structural challenges confronting the food system in an integrated and comprehensive way. Confronting these challenges requires dynamic, multilevel and multisectoral strategies that integrate antipoverty efforts,...
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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
2016-07-01
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| description | Alternative food initiatives have been challenged by critics to address the long-term, structural challenges confronting the food system in an integrated and comprehensive way. Confronting these challenges requires dynamic, multilevel and multisectoral strategies that integrate antipoverty efforts, ecological sustainability, food, wellness and community building throughout all aspects of the food system. Moving initiatives beyond the margins can begin by identifying and building on the successes of existing projects. In this pursuit, this paper articulates the case of The Stop Community Food Centre as it has evolved from a food bank offering emergency relief into a thriving neighborhood hub where people come together to grow, cook, and share food, and where people advocate for measures to establish a more just, sustainable, and healthy food system for all. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e177c40dde04e1182f83e1e8d1f8c3c2023-08-02T06:59:14ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012016-07-012110.5304/jafscd.2011.021.012146The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food SystemCharles Levkoe0Sarah Wakefield1University of TorontoUniversity of TorontoAlternative food initiatives have been challenged by critics to address the long-term, structural challenges confronting the food system in an integrated and comprehensive way. Confronting these challenges requires dynamic, multilevel and multisectoral strategies that integrate antipoverty efforts, ecological sustainability, food, wellness and community building throughout all aspects of the food system. Moving initiatives beyond the margins can begin by identifying and building on the successes of existing projects. In this pursuit, this paper articulates the case of The Stop Community Food Centre as it has evolved from a food bank offering emergency relief into a thriving neighborhood hub where people come together to grow, cook, and share food, and where people advocate for measures to establish a more just, sustainable, and healthy food system for all.https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/146AntipovertyCommunity BuildingCommunity Food CentreEcological SustainabilityFood and WellnessFood Bank |
| spellingShingle | Charles Levkoe Sarah Wakefield The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Antipoverty Community Building Community Food Centre Ecological Sustainability Food and Wellness Food Bank |
| title | The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System |
| title_full | The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System |
| title_fullStr | The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System |
| title_short | The Community Food Centre: Creating Space for a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Food System |
| title_sort | community food centre creating space for a just sustainable and healthy food system |
| topic | Antipoverty Community Building Community Food Centre Ecological Sustainability Food and Wellness Food Bank |
| url | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/146 |
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