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Environmental Sciences
Jamie Desautels, Jacqueline Chapman, Stephan Schott
Summary: This paper examines the challenges of food security and food sovereignty in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, and suggests tailored policies and programs to address these challenges.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Amy Caughey, Pitsiula Kilabuk, Igah Sanguya, Michelle Doucette, Martha Jaw, Jean Allen, Lily Maniapik, Theresa Koonoo, Wanda Joy, Jamal Shirley, Jan M. Sargeant, Helle Moller, Sherilee L. Harper
Summary: The history of health research in Inuit communities in Canada has had unethical and colonizing practices, but recent reforms have focused on ethical and community-driven research. This study describes the process of developing a research program guided by the National Inuit Strategy on Research (NISR) to address food security, nutrition, and climate change. The study identifies key elements to support community-led research and provides recommendations for funding agencies to align funding with community priorities.
Review
Environmental Studies
Pierre Damien Ntihinyurwa, Walter Timo de Vries
Summary: Exploring the relationship between farmland fragmentation and consolidation towards food security, this study identifies various impacts and strategies at different levels to guide future policies on farmland management.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Matthew Little, Hilary Hagar, Chloe Zivot, Warren Dodd, Kelly Skinner, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Amy Caughey, Josephine Gaupholm, Melanie Lemire
Summary: The study found that Inuit people are consuming less country food and more market food, driven by factors such as colonial processes, poverty, changing food preferences and knowledge, and climate change. The health implications of dietary transition are complex, with concerns about micronutrient deficiencies, dietary inadequacy, food insecurity, overweight, obesity, and cultural influences. This review provides insight into the factors influencing Inuit diet and health, which may inform future research and decision-making on food policy and community programs.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Judith Rueschhoff, Carl Hubatsch, Joerg Priess, Thomas Scholten, Lukas Egli
Summary: The study examined the food self-sufficiency level of a German metropolitan region, finding a mean SSL of 94% under current diets and agricultural productivity, with 12% of unutilized land needed for non-local commodities. Shifting towards more plant-based diets and reducing food losses would increase SSL, while organic agriculture would decrease it.
RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Silja Zimmermann, Brian J. Dermody, Bert Theunissen, Martin J. Wassen, Lauren M. Divine, Veronica M. Padula, Henrik von Wehrden, Ine Dorresteijn
Summary: Arctic food systems are facing challenges like climate change, food security loss, and destabilization of Indigenous practices. Despite growing scientific knowledge, Indigenous communities still struggle with sustainability challenges. A systematic review of 526 articles was conducted to understand the existing knowledge on Arctic Indigenous food systems. The study identified gaps and proposed directions for future research to enable sustainability transformations.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Amy B. Caughey, Jan M. Sargeant, Helle Moller, Sherilee L. Harper
Summary: Inuit communities in the Circumpolar North have undergone a nutrition transition from traditional country food to market food, leading to concerns about reduced diet quality and increased chronic diseases. Research on the impact of Inuit country food on health during pregnancy and childhood has increased over time, with a focus on environmental contaminants and nutrient adequacy, indicating a need for further exploration of food security and safety in this population.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Andrew Papworth, Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls
Summary: Food Sovereignty is a developing and contested concept within food security debates. This article analyzes the foodways of the Rama indigenous group in Nicaragua to illustrate two tensions within the Food Sovereignty literature. The study finds that the Rama source their food in diverse ways, with engagement in the market economy being critical for their food security. There is also conflict over resources between the Rama and encroaching Pacific Nicaraguans. These findings highlight the need for further development in Food Sovereignty to address such challenges.
Article
Fisheries
Robert Arthur, Daniel J. Skerritt, Anna Schuhbauer, Naazia Ebrahim, Richard M. Friend, U. Rashid Sumaila
Summary: The potential of fish in food systems to address malnutrition needs to be better realized, with governance challenges in complex, contested food systems needing to be addressed for equitable access to fish and benefits. Small-scale fishers and poor people face unequal struggles in securing access to fisheries, highlighting the importance of engaging with this struggle to enable positive contributions to food systems while meeting global sustainable development objectives.
FISH AND FISHERIES
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Cornelia Guell, Catherine R. Brown, Otto W. Navunicagi, Viliamu Iese, Neela Badrie, Morgan Wairiu, Arlette Saint Ville, Nigel Unwin
Summary: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face significant burdens of nutrition-related diseases and aim to improve health by increasing production and consumption of local, nutritious foods. However, local food production is hindered by lack of government investment, outdated technology, and limited knowledge. Trust and cooperation among stakeholders also vary in a market with intense competition from imports.
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Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Douglas H. Constance
Summary: The Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the journal Agriculture and Human Values played a crucial role in providing an intellectual space for interdisciplinary critique of the industrial agrifood system. This paper introduces the concept of The Doctors of Agrifood Studies as a metaphor for the important role played by critical agrifood social scientists in documenting the unsustainability of conventional agriculture and working towards creating a sustainable and ethical agrifood system. It also discusses the Critical Turn in agrifood studies and examines the tension between food security and food sovereignty discourses and movements.
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Christian Franco-Crespo, Otilia Vanessa Cordero-Ahiman, Jorge Leonardo Vanegas, Dario Garcia
Summary: Fair commercialization networks serve as an important mechanism for economic and social participation of small producers in rural areas. Women's participation is crucial for short-term commercialization as it contributes to family income, economic independence, and food diversification. This research analyzes short commercialization circuits (SCCs) for agroecological foods in the rural Andean area of Pillaro canton, and finds that they contribute to food security by providing low-cost, diversified, and nutritious products. Moreover, SCCs foster a closer relationship between producers and consumers, leading to greater trust in the products offered.
Review
Agronomy
Gabriel LaPlante, Sonja Andrekovic, Robert G. Young, Jocelyn M. Kelly, Niki Bennett, Elliott J. Currie, Robert H. Hanner
Summary: Food security is a growing societal challenge as the global population grows, but the availability of arable land decreases. Canada is highly self-reliant in meat and dairy but heavily relies on international imports for fresh vegetables. The greenhouse vegetable industry in Canada has the potential to overcome future food supply shortages and contribute significantly to self-sustainable food production, although challenges such as infectious plant pathogens and labor shortages exist. Opportunities to address these challenges include diversifying commodity groups and integrating innovative technologies for increased industry efficiency.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pauline Liru, Lindy Heinecken
Summary: This study found that rural women farmers in Kakamega County, Kenya, use various methods to mitigate the effects of climate change on their livelihoods. By adjusting farming strategies, utilizing indigenous knowledge, and expanding support networks, they are able to exercise some control over their food security and food sovereignty.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vincent-Paul Sanon, Raymond Ouedraogo, Patrice Toe, Hamid El Bilali, Erwin Lautsch, Stefan Vogel, Andreas H. Melcher
Summary: This article analyzes the transition in inland fisheries and aquaculture in Burkina Faso and its implications in terms of natural resources management, food security, and livelihoods. The study found that technical and institutional changes have deeply shaped and transformed fisheries governance, with technological improvements increasing productivity and contribution to households' livelihoods.