Northern Food Systems in Transition: The Role of the Emerging Agri-Food Industry in the Northwest Territories (Canada) Food Systemagri-food industry, transitions, food security, economic development, poverty re
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Our paper begins with a brief introduction of the topic, followed by a summary of a research project currently underway in northern Canada (Chan and Furgal, A566, 2003), and finally 2 Plenary 4: Security comments and questions for each of the theme areas identified by the NRF for the ...
The main policy initiative of the Canadian federal government meanwhile, has been to provide a retail subsidy to make nutritious and perishable foods more available and affordable in northern stores through the Nutrition North Canada program (Galloway, 2014). A key component of the NFSS is to ...
In Canada, our partnership with Food Banks Canada is equally vital. We support programs likeNorthern Food Insecurity, helping to address the disproportionate levels of food insecurity in northern and remote communities, particularly among Indigenous populations. Across Canada, the food insecurity rate ...
The Indigenous Peoples in northern and Arctic Canada rely on local wildlife as an important food source, and it is thus hypothesized that they may have high intakes of these contaminants. Herein, an assessment of dietary exposure to selected organochlorines and heavy metals for Indigenous Peoples ...
For the Teetl’it Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories of Canada, knowledge about the distribution and abundance of berries, even from one year to another, guides community principles for accessing and harvesting the crop. This TEK is communicated between family members and friends through oral ...
2023. "“We Make It Work Because We Must”: Narrating the Creation of an Urban Indigenous Food Bank in London, Ontario, Canada" Land 12, no. 11: 2028. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12112028 APA Style Richmond, C., & Dokis, B. (2023). “We Make It Work Because We Must”: ...
developed (right to food, presence of a food system pathway and urban population signed on to the MUFPP). Livelihood and resilience indicators have poorer geographic coverage across most regions, especially Oceania and northern Africa and western Asia....
Food insecurity is reflective of, and in turn contributes to, the poor health status of Inuit, and has been identified as one of the major policy challenges facing northern governments [7–15]. The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of research examining Inuit food systems, proving...