Patty Williams is a Professor in the Department of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University and a founding director of FoodARC – the Food Action Research Centre. With FoodARC’s organizational partners, she was awarded the prestigious Canadian Institutes…
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- New research funding announcement: Dismantling stigma
- Latest data on household food insecurity published by PROOF
- Dig in! – Some Common Food Terms (in collaboration with EAC)
- EAC Stories From The Food Movement – video series featuring Patty Williams
- Promoting Healthy Weights in Children Conference
- Key Health Inequalities in Canada: A National Portrait
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Vision and HistoryThe Food Action Research Centre, or FoodARC, is a research centre at Mount Saint Vincent University committed to research and action to build food security in Nova Scotia and beyond.
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166 Bedford Highway,
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- OUR APPROACH: FOOD SECURITY
- Household Food Security
Household Food SecurityHousehold Food Security exists when everyone has access to safe, nutritious food of the variety and amount that they need and want, in a way that maintains their dignity.
- Community Food Security
Community Food SecurityCommunity Food Security exists when all community residents have access to enough healthy, safe food through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance, and social justice.
- Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action ResearchParticipatory Action Research (PAR) is a process of working collaboratively with those most involved or impacted by the issue. At FoodARC, we work with individuals, community organizations, government representatives, and university-based researchers to gather information and act to improve food security.
- Ways of Working Together
Ways of Working TogetherWhat we achieve is only as important as how we achieve it. In its projects, FoodARC strives to be inclusive and co-creates knowledge and action to ensure that activities and policy recommendations are rooted in what Nova Scotian communities need and hope for.
- Valuing Different Ways of Knowing
Valuing Different Ways of KnowingFoodARC’s emphasis on Participatory Action Research means that we believe that people’s real life experiences and their own understandings of those experiences are crucial to developing solutions to any challenges they may face.
- Advocacy and Policy Change
Advocacy and Policy ChangeFood security is impacted by many different factors. Long-term, holistic, and systemic changes are needed. That’s why advocacy and policy change at multiple levels are important strategies and can be found at the core of FoodARC’s objectives and work.
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- PROJECTS
- Looking Back to Move Ahead
Looking Back to Move Ahead: Outreach, Knowledge Mobilization, and Intersectoral Exchange to Advance Food Security in Nova Scotia.The project involves collaborating with local organizers to co-host a series of regional gatherings that serve as opportunities for outreach, knowledge and story sharing, action planning, and capacity building, and which focus on local priorities and interests.
- Activating Change Together for Community Food Security (ACT for CFS)
ACT for CFS2010 – 2015
Generating the most comprehensive research on community food security in Nova Scotia – rooted in lived experiences, real community needs and innovative solutions
- Voices for Food Security in Nova Scotia
Voices for Food Security in Nova Scotia2005– 2017
Voices for Food Security in Nova Scotia builds on more than a decade of collaborative and community based participatory research, to improve knowledge, understanding and action to create the conditions to address food insecurity.
- Affiliated Projects
- Paying for Nutrition
Paying for NutritionFunded by Industry Canada, the project will define methodology, conduct research, and produce a report about the cost of healthy foods in aboriginal communities in Nova Scotia.
- Pictou Landing First Nation
Pictou Landing First NationThis research was collaboratively developed by food security researchers in Nova Scotia and the community of Pictou Landing to explore community food security (CFS) in Pictou Landing First Nation.
- The Provision of Charitable Food Assistance in Canada
The Provision of Charitable Food Assistance in CanadaThis study charts the full scope of charitable food provisioning activities in Halifax, Quebec City, Toronto, Edmonton and Victoria and assesses each community’s capacity to recognize and respond to local problems of unmet food need.
- CLASS II
Class IIThe Children’s Lifestyle and School-performance Study (CLASS) is a province-wide research project that looks at the relationships between health, nutrition, physical activity, mental health and school performance of children in Nova Scotia.
- Propagating the Food Movement
Propagating the Food MovementThis study explores the structure and constitution of networks of food initiatives in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia, working in partnership with four provincial network organizations.
- Paying for Nutrition
- Completed Projects
- Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova Scotia
Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova ScotiaThis exploratory project focused on facilitating and strengthening cross-departmental collaborations, to create sustained action and lasting change on food insecurity in Nova Scotia.
- Mobilization on Food Security and Community Economic Development
Mobilization on Food Security and Community Economic DevelopmentThis project was part of the Atlantic Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network, which worked to broaden knowledge about the social economy of the Atlantic region. From 2005-2011 the partnership brought together both academic and community partners committed to improving community food security.
- Thought About Food? A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing Policy
Thought About Food? A Workbook on Food Security & Influencing PolicyThis workbook was developed in 2005-2006 as part of a series of research projects on food security. As well as using research and experiences drawn from the Nova Scotia Food Security Projects, it incorporates ideas, insights and advice from people involved in food security issues and actions across Canada.
- Cultivating Change: Putting Food First in Nova Scotia
- Looking Back to Move Ahead
- EVENTS & LEARNING
- Latest Events
Latest EventsFoodARC offers learning and skill-building workshops and events to build capacity for research, policy change, advocacy, and working collaboratively. Visit this page for the latest events and information.
- Past Events
Past EventsFoodARC hosts and supports diverse events to share research results, have meaningful conversations, and support learning. For more information about past events, including descriptions and any associated resources.
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- Publications
PublicationsFind publications from 2003 to present associated with the various FoodARC projects.
- Tools
ToolsFind resources for learning about food security, raising awareness of the issues, and acting for change.
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VideosFind videos co-created with our community partners and students about FoodARC projects and food security.
- Make Food Matter
Make Food MattersMake Food Matter is a strategy to support FoodARC partners in building community food security across Nova Scotia. We have gathered a range of tools that we have found to work well in supporting action on community food security. We hope it will support you and your organization, wherever you are at in your efforts.
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