At long last, our paper that reviews the state of food asset mapping in Canada is published in Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation. Thanks to the hard work of a team of undergraduate students, we did a cross-Canada review of 73 food asset maps. As expected, we found that these maps featured a lot of food assets in the built environment, like grocery stores and food banks. There were very few maps that represented Indigenous-focused food assets, natural, and cultural assets. We hope that through showing the gaps in food asset mapping in Canada, we can add more evidence to support the need for changing how food asset maps are created. We call for more collaborative methods that centre the people who food asset maps would benefit most.
New Publication: A Review of Food Asset Maps in Canada
