Food Waste

Tackling food waste is a big issue, particularly in wealthy countries. It emerges from all aspects of the food production-consumption web, implicating individual, municipal, regional, and global actors. This episode starts off with Alexia Moyer’s Amuse Bouche segment on historic approaches to waste in the home, leading into a discussion with Tammara Soma about her article, “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada” from Vol. 9 No. 1 of Canadian Food Studies, and a response to the article from PhD student, Dante Gbejewoh.
Guests:
Dr. Alexia Moyer is co-Managing Editor of Canadian Food Studies and a founding member of the editorial collective, red line-ligne rouge, based in Montreal.
Tammara Soma is an Associate Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Her research includes food systems planning, food loss and waste, and circular food economies.
Dante Gbejewoh is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies at Queen’s University and a member of the Food Policy Council for Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington. His research examines on-farm conservation activities and agroecological transformation.

Mentioned in this episode:
“Waste management as foodwork: A feminist food studies approach to household food waste” by Carly Fraser and Kate Parizeau
Credits:
Host/Producer: David Szanto
Executive Producers: Rachel Engler-Stringer, Laurence Godin, Charles Levkoe, Phil Loring, Kristen Lowitt
Music: Alex Guz and Evgeny Bardyuzha on Pixabay
Sound Effects: Aviana_Phoenix, BenKirb, and freesound_community on Pixabay
Photo: David Szanto
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Digesting Food Studies is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Lakehead University, and the Canadian Association for Food Studies.


Chapters:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:20 - Alexia Moyer on household management
0:09:55 - Tammara Soma on food waste
0:22:22 - Dante Gbejewoh on “Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada”
0:28:56 - Chapter 4