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oapen-20.500.12657-499932021-07-14T00:56:50Z Food Security in the High North Hossain, Kamrul Nilsson, Lena Maria Herrmann, Thora Martina Geography Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidisciplinary insights and with a particular focus on populations in the European High North region, the book highlights the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on foods and natural products that are unique to this region and considers how they play a significant role towards food security and sovereignty. The book captures the tremendous complexity facing populations here as they strive to maintain sustainable food systems – both subsistent and commercial – and regain sovereignty over traditional food production policies. A range of issues are explored including food contamination risks, due to increasing human activities in the region, such as mining, to changing livelihoods and gender roles in the maintenance of traditional food security and sovereignty. The book also considers processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to convert the traditional foods, that are harvested and hunted, into local foods. This book offers a broader understanding of food security and sovereignty and will be of interest to academics, scholars and policy makers working in food studies; geography and environmental studies; agricultural studies; sociology; anthropology; political science; health studies and biology. 2021-07-13T14:01:34Z 2021-07-13T14:01:34Z 2021 book ONIX_20210713_9781000095197_5 9781000095197 9780367524265 9781003057758 9781138370067 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49993 eng Routledge Research in Polar Regions application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000095197.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003057758 10.4324/9781003057758 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000095197 9780367524265 9781003057758 9781138370067 Routledge 336 open access
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This book explores the challenges facing food security, sustainability, sovereignty, and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. Offering multidisciplinary insights and with a particular focus on populations in the European High North region, the book highlights the importance of accessible and sustainable traditional foods for the dietary needs of local and Indigenous Peoples. It focuses on foods and natural products that are unique to this region and considers how they play a significant role towards food security and sovereignty. The book captures the tremendous complexity facing populations here as they strive to maintain sustainable food systems – both subsistent and commercial – and regain sovereignty over traditional food production policies. A range of issues are explored including food contamination risks, due to increasing human activities in the region, such as mining, to changing livelihoods and gender roles in the maintenance of traditional food security and sovereignty. The book also considers processing methods that combine indigenous and traditional knowledge to convert the traditional foods, that are harvested and hunted, into local foods. This book offers a broader understanding of food security and sovereignty and will be of interest to academics, scholars and policy makers working in food studies; geography and environmental studies; agricultural studies; sociology; anthropology; political science; health studies and biology.
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