Mobilities and Externalities in Nova Scotia’s Local Food Movement

Local food movements argue that a reduction of food miles has positive social, environmental, and economic impacts. A full account of the costs of food production, however, needs to go beyond the path from food to plate and consider the wider set of translocal social and economic relations involved in local food production. Using a multimethod, ethnographic approach, this project examines the costs of local food production, placing special attention on the international labour migration that sustains Nova Scotia’s agricultural sector.