Food Sovereignty in Canada

Annette Aurélie Desmarais is the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of_ La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants_. Prior to obtaining her doctorate in geography, Annette was a small-scale grain farmer in Saskatchewan. She then also worked with the National Farmers Union in the Global Agriculture Project and provided technical support to La Vía Campesina for over a decade.Nettie Wiebe is an organic farmer and professor of ethics at St. Andrew’s College, University of Saskatchewan. She was Women’s President of the National Farmers Union and then served four years as the President of the NFU - the first and only woman to have led a national farmers’ organization in Canada - as well as a member of La Via Campesina’s International Coordinating Commission (ICC). She is actively involved in local and national politics in Canada, and her research focuses on agrarian feminism and the intersection of environmental, agricultural and women’s issues in rural communities.Hannah Wittman is a professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. She conducts collaborative research on local food systems, farmer networks, agrarian citizenship, and agroecological transitions in Canada and throughout Latin America.

• : Section 1 - Why Should Canada Pursue Food Sovereignty? - Nurturing Food Sovereignty in Canada (Nettie Wiebe & Kevin Wipf): The State of Agriculture in Canada and the Need for Food Sovereignty (Darrin Qualman): Food Sovereignty and the National Farmers Union: Grassroots Issues and Challenges (Naomi Beingessner): Women Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy for Canada (Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Carla Roppel & Diane Martz): Section 2 - Implementing Food Sovereignty - Community Nutrition Practice and Research: Integrating a Food Sovereignty Approach (Rachel Engler-Stringer): Food Secure Canada: Where Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect (Cathleen Kneen): Growing Community: Community Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty (Yolanda Hansen): Food Sovereignty in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario (Harriet Friedmann): Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Model for Social Learning (Dawn Morrison): The Limits of Farmer Control: Food Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board (André Magnan): The Potential for Food Sovereignty in British Columbia: Food Regime Contradictions and Local Resistance (Hannah Wittman & Herb Barbolet)