Centre for Studies in Food Security
Previous Talks
2009
Urban agriculture in Brazil: what we know, what we should know
Dr. Marina Castelo Branco, EMBRAPA, Brazil
May 20, 2009
Ryerson University, Heaslip House
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Graduate Student Food Colloquium
April 25, 2009
Ryerson University, Oakham House
Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture
March 2009
Ryerson University, Architecture Building
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2008
Urban agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa
Nancy Naranja, Urban Harvest Africa
September 8, 2008
Ryerson University, Heaslip House
Food in Planning
Jerome Kaufman and André Viljoen
May 2, 2008, 2:00-4:00pm
Ryerson University, Architecture Bldg
Locally Grown Food & Near-urban Agriculture: Challenges & Opportunities
Elbert van Donkersgoed
March 28, 2008
York University
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Christie Young, FarmStart
Feb. 8, 2008
University of Toronto, University College
2007
Foodsheds, Footprints and Foodmiles
Jennifer Forkes
December 7, 2007
University of Toronto, University College
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FOOD CITY: The infrastructure of eating local(Audio)
John Knechtel, director of Alphabet City
November 23, 2007
York University Immigrant Women and Food(Audio)
October 19, 2007
Ryerson University, Heaslip House
Women's Identitities and Food
Dr. Iara Lessa, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University
Iara and Cecilia have interviewed immigrant women from various origins about their household's changes in food practices since they settled in Toronto. They will present their findings about how these women see these changes affecting their identities, roles and family life in the re-constituted home.
Eating Culture and Culinary Practice
Anne Wu, PhD candidate, U of T
Anne's study has followed migrant mothers steps on everyday cooking and its related practices to reveal alternative and sophisticated ways to understand the concept of homeland as well as the experience of city life in the new environment. It illustrates how the ecological landscape and one's memory of home are ingrained into the process of doing cooking and taste of food itself.
Food-related Household Work and Learning among New Chinese Immigrant Women
Willa Liu, PhD candidate, OISE
Willa's research examines Chinese immigrants, mostly women, and their unpaid household work and informal learning involved in it. She interviewed new Chinese immigrant women in the GTA. In the seminar she will discuss food-related informal learning through various dimensions of household work.
Designing for Food and Agriculture: Recent Explorations at Ryerson University (Audio)
Speakers: June Komisar: Ryerson University, Department of Architectural Science; Joe Nasr: Ryerson University, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Students from Ryerson's Department of Architectural Science
April 20, 2007Sustainable Agriculture in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Speakers: Lori Stahlbrand, Local Flavour Plus and Melissa Watkins, Ontario Farmland Trust
March 9, 2007
York University
Graduate Student Food Colloquium
Students working in the area of food presented brief overviews of their work. A forum to network, share ideas and communicate student research on food systems with graduate and undergraduate students from York University, the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.
February 23, 2007
University of Toronto, University College Aboriginal Peoples & Food Security: Rural and Urban Difficulties, Developments and Research Synopsis
Speakers: Dr. Cyndy Baskin (Ryerson University) , Bonnie Johnston (Ryerson University), Ruth Koleszar-Green (Ryerson University)
February 16, 2007
Ryerson University
This Food For Talk presentation, which is covered by three Aboriginal women, introduced issues of food security in northern/rural First Nations communities and in urban areas such as Toronto. It raised both the similarities and differences within each of these types of communities, examined the historical roots and present day impacts of food insecurity and explored the attempts at lessening this problem for Aboriginal peoples. The presentation then turned to Aboriginal world views, research methodologies and cultural/ethical protocols which are currently serving as guidelines for many Aboriginal researchers/research projects. A specific research project that has begun with boriginal/Indigenous youth in a First Nations community in New Brunswick and a rural community in Brazil on food security and identities wasshow cased.
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Don't put that in your mouth. The documented health risks of genetically engineered foods
Speakers: Jeffrey Smith (Institute for Responsible Technology)
January 25, 2007
University of Toronto
Are genetically modified (GM) foods making you sick? Will they hurt you or your children in the long term? And what was the fate of laboratory animals and livestock that were fed GM crops? The answers may make you radically rethink what you put in your mouth. Find out how industry has gagged scientists, rigged research, suppressed news coverage and hijacked regulatory agencies. And learn what you can do to protect yourself.
Jeffrey Smith is the author of Seeds of Deception, the world's best selling book on GM foods, and the Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. His forthcoming book, Genetic Roulette, documents the health risks of GM foods and how current safety assessments are incompetent to protect the public.
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2006
Food Policy Councils: Challenges and Successes (Audio)
Speakers: Wendy Mendes (Vancouver Food Policy Council), Doreen Ojala (Sudbury-Manitoulin Food Security Network), Janice Etter (Toronto Food Policy Council)
December 8, 2006
Ryerson University
Slow Food: Local Ingredients, Global Flavour: A report from the Terra Madre Slow Food meeting in Turin Italy, Oct., 2006(Audio)
Speakers: Harriet Friedmann (York University), Debbie Field (FoodShare), Ruth Klahsen (Montforte Dairy), Colette Murphy (Urban Harvest), Jamie Kennedy (JK Kitchens) , and Elisabeth Abergel (York University)
November 17, 2006
York University
From October 26-30 in Turin, Italy the Terra Madre World Meeting of Food Communities was held. Bringing together artisanal and small-scale agricultural producers from all around the world, the meeting focused on three themes:
NETWORKS: specifically, strengthening the network of food communities, cooks and universities and establishing communication channels within this network; AGRO-ECOLOGY: agriculture that respects the environment; MARKET ACCESS: finding new outlets for small-scale producers, who face crushing competition from industrial producers and distribution, through associations and cooperatives and collaboration with cooks and universities.
Seeking Justice in the American Agrifood System: Power, Perspective, and Practice
Speakers: Dr. Patricia Allen, Associate Director for Sustainable Food Systems (Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, University of California at Santa Cruz)
October 20, 2006
University of Toronto, University College
Urban Agriculture in Kampala, Uganda: What are the Differences from Toronto?
Speaker: Dr. Diana Lee-Smith (Mazingira Institute, Nairobi, Kenya)
September 22, 2006
Toronto Christian Resource Centre
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