2025/01/01 by Karen Foster · 1 voice
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Indigenous Studies and Ecology
paper · pdf · doi:10.5304/jafscd.2025.151.004
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/11/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Introduction The Common Ground Canada Network[1] (CGCN) is a national partnership of social science and humanities (SSH) researchers, community organizations, Indigenous leaders, farmers, policymakers, and civil society groups working together to transform Canada’s agriculture and food systems in pursuit of a sustainable, net-zero future. CGCN recognizes that climate change is not just a technical problem requiring the expertise of natural scientists and engineering; it is also a problem of relationships between people and the land, between rural and urban communities, between Canada and the world, and between people within/and food systems. An initial team of 49 academics at 13 institutions and 22 nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations responded to a joint opportunity from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to form a Social Science Research Network on Sustainable Agriculture in a Net-Zero Economy, and Common Ground, with its focus on relations and relationships, was the winning proposal.