Research Methods
The goal of the project is to co-create a sustainable, sovereign, just and secure food system in Lachine.
We take a critical-participatory-action-research approach and have just completed the first phase of the project.
Phase 1 – In the summer of 2020, students from Food and Sustainability interviewed the community food organizations in Lachine. They asked the food organizations how they fit into the Lachine community food system. They also asked the community food groups about their needs and assets.
In the fall of 2020, students from Urban Agriculture developed the website, designed the charts, produced the graphs and edited the information from the first reports (for accuracy and consistency).
Phase 2 – We are organizing a public meeting for the community food organizations in Lachine to discuss findings of this project and to encourage groups to form and strengthen partnerships.
Research Team
This research project is part of a community-service learning project involving students from Erik Chevrier’s courses at Concordia University.
The following students interviewed the community food groups in Lachine and wrote a report about each group:
Paul Markarian, Katelyn Kreutzer-Dobbs, Ariana Moin, Maria Petrella, Guilia Pellegrino, Jane Ramil, Teresa Servedio, Victoria Prentice-Funk, Nicholas Gay, Ana O’Flaherty, Nora Gallant Green, Valeria Gonzalez, Flavie Dupont, Sasha Teman, Charlotte Gill, Alice Aterman, Meghan Bloom, Cleis Millar, Cedric-Rene Najjar, Melanie Boucher, Claudio Curti, Matan Ninio, Tea Fayad, Kaela Alexander-Young, Emma McSharry, Angela Kylie Smith, Jareah Espanola, Christiane Rochon, Laure Verset, and Ayman Labib
The following students developed the website, edited the reports for accuracy and consistency, and designed the charts:
Abigail Lalonde, Weikai Lin, Melisa Mahecha Jaramillo, Marko Radivojevic, and Samuel Vanzin
Lachine Food System Needs & Assets
These pie charts display the proportion of needs and assets that were found among all food groups in Lachine.
