Small Food Enterprise Outreach (SFEO)

Small Food Enterprise Outreach (SFEO) Project: economic resiliency, ethnocultural food enterprise and urban sustainability collaboration (Phase 1).
The Culinaria Research Centre of the University of Toronto Scarborough is collaborating with the Economic Development & Culture Division of the City of Toronto under the direction of the Centre’s Associate Professor Jayeeta (Jo) Sharma, on a Small Food Enterprise Outreach project (SFEO). As part of phase 1, this SFEO project and MITACS internship will coordinate student researchers’ culturally informed outreach with 10-20 family-owned independent, ethnocultural restaurants across Scarborough municipal wards, examine the impact of the pandemic upon them especially the role of recent government support programs, as part of a wider study of economic resiliency and urban sustainability that prioritizes the role of BIPOC and ethnocultural food stakeholders in advancing resilient communities and local food systems. The MITACS intern will assist to identify a cross-section of ethnocultural BIPOC-run small food enterprises in Scarborough and Toronto wards toward a continuation of the project for a possible phase 2.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jo Sharma

Student:

Partner:

City of Toronto

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Utilities

University:

University of Toronto

Program: