Articles by Charles Z. Levkoe

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Charles Z. Levkoe has worked in both urban and rural food initiatives. His experiences in the area of food politics and community food security span the last decade in partnership with numerous non-profit organizations and local networks. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in geography working with community food initiatives across Canada.

  • Propagating the food movement

    A uniquely decentralized and mighty movement

    by Charles Z. Levkoe • Sep 1, 2011

    Rhizomes are horizontal, underground plant stems with the ability to create complex root systems. They can expand relentlessly underground, often lying dormant for years, and re-emerge as healthy plants in different locations when the internal and external conditions are right. Each new plant created is connected to the parent but exists as its own independent, flourishing entity. The rhizome can serve as a metaphor for the Canadian food movement – a decentralized network of diverse, self-organizing, interconnected initiatives with no identifiable beginning or end.

  • Eat, play, live

    8 food activism initiatives that are changing how we eat and live

    by Geeta Sehgal, Yolanda Hansen, Jon Steinman, Aruna Handa, Shayna Stock, Kaitlin Kazmierowski, Adam Perry, Charles Z. Levkoe, Angie Koch • Jan 1, 2009

    The origins of Food Not Bombs are somewhat mysterious: some report that a bake sale to benefit the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament led activists to call for spending on food, rather than bombs; other stories mention a mock soup line being used as street theatre when demonstrators asked the First National Bank of Boston to stop investing in a nuclear power station.