Common Ground Canada Network: Building Relationships for Just and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transitions

I'm a co-investigator on a large SSHRC Project titled "The Common Ground Canada Network: Building Relationships for Just and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transitions." I'm a lead on Pillar Two, which focuses on the relationships across and between rural and urban communities, looking at everything from social, political, and cultural inequalities to rural-urban transportation issues. Given the affordable food crisis, we are very interested in issues relating to food insecurity and in particular, the role of food hubs in the national food infrastructure.

Common Ground brings together: 
SSH researchers and agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food systems actors, including civic/community organizations, government, industry organizations, and Indigenous and settler communities, 
to pursue the following four specific objectives:

(1) formalize and coordinate the SSH expertise around sustainable agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food systems such that there is discussion, understanding and, to the extent possible, alignment around shared assumptions, principles, goals, strategies and metrics;

(2) forge the connections necessary among SSH researchers, other disciplines, and other affected groups in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food systems to enable the flow of knowledge, identify knowledge gaps, increase collaboration and seed new research around sustainable food systems issues across Canada and Indigenous Territories;

(3) work in partnership to develop holistic sustainability goals and objectives that encompass not only reductions in carbon emissions, but the right social relations to underpin the shift toward ‘more than’ net-zero; and

(4) direct resources to where they are most needed and most impactful in this newly aligned and coordinated community.

To join us, click here: https://commongroundnetwork.ca/get-involved/