Food Security in the High North: Contemporary Challenges Across the Circumpolar Region

This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. It highlights the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples and considers how they play a significant role towards food security and sovereignty. It also explores food contamination risks, changing livelihoods and gender roles, and processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to convert traditional foods into local foods.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Arctic region faces significant challenges in terms of food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains, particularly affecting Indigenous Peoples. To address these challenges, this book provides multidisciplinary insights, with a particular focus on populations in the European High North region. It emphasizes the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples. The book explores the unique foods and natural products found in the Arctic region and their significance in food security and sovereignty. It highlights the complex challenges faced by populations in maintaining sustainable food systems, both subsistent and commercial, and regaining control over traditional food production policies.

The book examines various issues, including food contamination risks arising from increasing human activities such as mining in the region. It also explores how changing livelihoods and gender roles impact traditional food security and sovereignty. Additionally, the book considers processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to transform traditional foods harvested and hunted into local foods.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of food security and sovereignty in the Arctic region, making it valuable for academics, scholars, and policy makers in food studies, geography and environmental studies, agricultural studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, health studies, and biology. By examining the unique challenges and opportunities faced by Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic, this book contributes to the ongoing dialogue and efforts to promote sustainable and equitable food systems for all.

Weight: 620g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367524265