Abstract
The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010. From there it expanded to include seven research nodes across Canada and three thematic international working groups, with over 90 researchers, students, and community partners involved in the project. As a multi-institutional project, FLEdGE has nodes in British Columbia (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)/Alberta (University of Alberta), Northwest Territories (Wilfrid Laurier University), northern Ontario (Lakehead University), eastern Ontario (Carleton University), southern Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Guelph; University of Waterloo); Quebec (McGill University; Dawson College); and Atlantic Canada (Dalhousie University; Carleton University). There are two or more lead researchers in each node, typically from different disciplines and several community partners in each node. In this way, FLEdGE branched out to include more than 90 partners and collaborators.
Highlights
The nature of FLEdGE as a modular configuration of community-defined projects meant that each node engaged in different work that shared the common goal of building increasingly equitable and sustainable food systems
The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners
FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010
Summary
The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. There are two or more lead researchers in each node, typically from different disciplines and several community partners in each node In this way, FLEdGE branched out to include more than 90 partners and collaborators. Given the distributed nature of FLEdGE—where nodes had the autonomy to define the work according to their community needs—the principles were a way to help us identify and better communicate the synergies and higher-level findings of this work. They are an evolving tool that help us to speak to the project in plain and accessible language. We need to help the people who produce our food adapt to changing economies by co-creating new opportunities for training, accessing capital and land, and connecting with eaters
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