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| About the Authors | |
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| List of Tables, Boxes, Figures | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Nurturing Food Sovereignty in Canada | |
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| Initiating Food Sovereignty | |
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| Food Sovereignty in Canada: Barriers and Pitfalls | |
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| Food Sovereignty: Making New Meal Plans | |
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| A Paradigm Shift in Agriculture and Food Policy | |
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| Weaving Food Webs and Loosening Food Chains | |
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| Advancing Agriculture by Destroying Farms? The State of Agriculture in Canada | |
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| The Aggressive Pursuit of Export Expansion | |
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| Expanded Output | |
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| Bigger, High-Tech, More Efficient Farms | |
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| Net Farm Income | |
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| A Chronic Drain on Taxpayers | |
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| Who Is Profiting within the System? | |
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| A Debt Bomb Ticking Beneath Farmhouses and Barns | |
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| Loss of Farm Families | |
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| Transferring Land to Local and Distant Elites | |
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| An Increasingly Unsustainable Food Production System | |
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| The End of Canadian Agriculture? | |
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| A New Chance for Canadian Agriculture? | |
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| Getting to Food Sovereignty: Grassroots Perspectives from the National Farmers Union | |
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| Transforming Agriculture: Women Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy For Canada | |
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| "Participation" in Government Agricultural Consultations | |
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| Down on the Farm | |
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| Women Farmers Analyze the APF | |
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| Women Farmers' Vision for an Inclusive Agricultural Policy | |
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| "It's the Same Old Song," or Implementing a Radical Alternative? | |
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| Food Secure Canada: Where Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect | |
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| The Social and Historical Context | |
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| The Formation of Food Secure Canada | |
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| Food Secure Canada: Issues and Challenges | |
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| Food Secure Canada's Mandate and Food Sovereignty | |
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| Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Model for Social Learning | |
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| Indigenous Eco-Philosophy | |
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| Principles of Indigenous Food Sovereignty | |
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| History of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement in B.C. | |
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| The Indigenous Food Systems Network | |
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| Current Situations and Challenges for Indigenous Food Sovereignty | |
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| Social Learning and Adapting Cultural Techniques | |
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| Permaculture - Finding the Junction between Sustainable Agriculture and Traditional Harvesting and Management Strategies | |
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| Indigenous Food Sovereignty - Whose Responsibility Is It? | |
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| Aboriginal Rights and Title Decisions: Implications for Food Sovereignty | |
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| Policy Interventions | |
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| Sovereignty from the Ground Up | |
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| The Limits of Farmer-Control: Food Sovereignty and Conflicts Over the Canadian Wheat Board | |
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| Conflicts Over the CWB: Food Sovereignty, Collective Marketing and Farmer-Control | |
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| The Struggle for Collective Marketing | |
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| The CWB under Farmer-Control | |
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| The Limits of Farmer-Control | |
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| Market Power and Democratic Control as Food Sovereignty | |
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| Community Nutrition Practice and Research: Integrating a Food Sovereignty Approach | |
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| Evolving Discourse in Community Nutrition and Public Health Practice and Research | |
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| Community Nutrition Practice and Research - Moving Towards Food Sovereignty? | |
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| Community Nutrition: Contributions to Advancing Food Sovereignty | |
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| Food Sovereignty = Community Nutrition | |
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| Growing Community: Community Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty | |
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| A History of Community Gardening | |
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| A Tale of Three Gardens | |
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| Paint Me a Picture: Perceptions of Community Gardens | |
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| Community Gardens as Sites of Political Resistance | |
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| Community Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty | |
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| Food Sovereignty in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario | |
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| Harriet Friedmann | |
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| Historical Context | |
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| Emerging Potentials for Food Sovereignty | |
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| Growing a Sustainable Food System | |
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| "Super, Natural": The Potential for Food Sovereignty in British Columbia | |
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| The Potential for Food Sovereignty in B.C. | |
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| Growing Forward: B.C's Agricultural Policy/Regulatory Environment | |
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| Fish Farms - Allowing the Extinction of Local Salmon? | |
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| Challenging Pro-industrial Agriculture and Food Bureaucracy from the Grassroots | |
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| Structural Obstacles to Food Sovereignty | |
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| Appendix: Policy Recommendations for Developing an Inclusive Canadian Agricultural Policy | |
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| Participation of Farm Women | |
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| Policy Development Process | |
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| Farmer Participation in the Definition of Policy Goals | |
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| Ensure Fair Compensation for Production and Labour | |
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| Redistribute Power and Control | |
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| Environmental Stewardship | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgements | |