Crafting a "Glocal" Education: Focusing on Food, Women, and Globalization

Beginning from an awareness of food as the "intimate commodity," this paper sets out to understand how low income women, in particular, understand the relationship between their own role as food providers for their families and the increasing globalisation of food production and distribution. Drawing on work with the Toronto-based Foodshare Focus on Food programme, the article describes a new approach, called "glocal education," which aims to help women understand the way their local practices connect with global forces.En commençant par la présentation de la nourriture en tant qu’un produit universel qui relie différents domaines, cet exposé propose de comprendre comment les femmes à faible revenu, en particulier, comprennent le lien entre leur rôle en tant que soutient de leurs familles et la mondialisation croissante de la production et de la distribution de la nourriture. En se basant sur le programme du Foodshare Focus basé à Toronto, l’article décrit une nouvelle approche, nommée 'éducation glocale' (globale et locale), qui a pour but d’aider les femmes à comprendre comment leurs pratiques locales sont liées aux forces globales

NAFTA refugees as protagonists: mexican migrant workers take on the fast food giants

Where does our food come from? Whose hands have planted, cultivated, picked, packed, processed, transported, scanned, sold, sliced, and cooked it? What production practices have transformed it from seed to fruit, from fresh to processed form? Who decides what is grown and how? What are the effects of those decisions on our health and the health of the planet