Mary Beckie

'A Taste of Home': Growing a sense of belonging through innovative community gardening for African immigrants in Alberta, Canada

Principal investigators: Onyango, Elizabeth

Keywords: Participatory action research; Sense of belonging; Working poor; Black identifying immigrants; Social connection; Collective action; Systems of marginalization; Community gardens

Engagement of African immigrants in municipal and community initiatives to address food insecurity in Alberta, Canada

Principal investigators: Onyango, Elizabeth

Keywords: Community engagement; Food security; community-based initiatives; African immigrants; Cultural relevance; Afrocentric approaches; Social inequity; Health and wellbeing; Municipal initiative; Alberta

Evaluating and strengthening peer learning programs for new farmers

Principal investigators: Beckie, Mary A.

Keywords: social networks; peer-to-peer learning; new and aspiring farmers; best practices; program evaluation

Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE)

Keywords: community-directed collaborative research partnership; sustainable food systems; regional development; Aboriginal; First Nations; integration; scale; governance

Partnership development to explore innovative uses of low cost communication technology for knowledge mobilization in agricultural communities of practice

Principal investigators: Gow, Gordon A.

Keywords: knowledge mobilization; communication and technology; agriculture; innovation; Sri Lanka; community engagement

Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability

Principal investigators: Lewis, Michael T.

Keywords: sustainability; sustainable community development; relocalization; community resilience; social economy; climate change; peak oil; transition; ecological economics; economic innovation

The social economy in British Columbia and Alberta: strengthening the foundations for growth

Keywords: social economy; social enterprise; community economic development; cooperatives; rural development; neighborhood revitalization; Aboriginal development; community resource management; benchmarks and indicators; nontimber forest resources; sustainable dev