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“Can we tell them that people can’t afford to eat, and it’s getting worse and worse?”: An Assessment of the Retail Food Environment and Consumer Agency in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Principal Investigator: Kenny, Tiff-Annie
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5503. The aim of the project is to collect new information on the retail food environment, household socio-economic conditions, and food purchases, through both empirical measures and local knowledge. The goal is to shed new light on market food affordability and food security in the ISR, while building local and regional ...


Food Security, Ice, Climate and Community Health
Principal Investigator: Chan, Laurie H. M.
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The objectives of this project are: 1) to develop a quantitative understanding of Inuit dietary change in Canada, with respect to environmental, cultural, economic and social constraints; 2) to predict the possible changes of Inuit diet composition and nutrient intakes as a result of environmental changes; and 3) to relate the broader dynamics of environmental change to Inuit food system change th...


Community Agriculture in the Canadian Arctic- How to help northerners grow food using greenhouses
Principal Investigator: Holzman, Sara
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: This research has the goal of examining whether or not it is feasible to apply the concept of community agriculture in the Canadian Arctic as a means of promoting environmental thinking, good nutrition, public health and community welfare. The objectives of this research are the following: to understand and describe the disconnect that Arctic communities have regarding their food sources, to under...


Healthy Foods North Intervention Project
Principal Investigator: De Roose, Elsie C.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008 2007
Summary: This licence is issued for the scientific research application No. 963. The overall goal of the program is to improve healthy food consumption, and promote healthy activity, through improved food availability, nutrition education and by increasing physical activity for good health. These activities will reduce the risk factors associated with chronic disease. This program works closely with a ...


Birth Weights of Native Canadians-Rates and Consequences
Principal Investigator: Willows, Noreen
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) of Health Canada, in collaboration with Katherine Gray-Donald (School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University) is sponsoring a research investigation to understand the prevalence of high and low infant birth weight and associated health complications in aboriginal communities across Canada. The goal of this research is to facilitate progra...


Influence of season and latitude on the fatty acid composition of great northern pike
Principal Investigator: Schwalme, Karl
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Karl Schwalme wants to know how and why the fat content of pike changes during the year. He will collect about 30-50 great northern pike from each lake by using a 2 1/2 inch gill net which will only be set during the day. He will then take the fish back to the Inuvik Research Centre to determine their fat content. Since some of the fats help to prevent heart disease in people, the annual change ...


Northern Infant Nutrition Study
Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To carry our research in the Inuvik area on northern infant nutrition. To study the vitamin, mineral and nutritional status of women during pregnancy and breast-feeding, to relate these findings to both the vitamin status of their infants at birth and to the immunologic and clinical status of the infants at six weeks of age....


Licence #5028
Principal Investigator: Godel, John
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To do a Northern Infant Nutritional Study by looking into the vitamin, mineral, and nutritional status of northern women during pregnancy and during breast feeding and to relate these findings to the vitamin status of their infants at birth and during the first six weeks of life; also to give vitamin supplements to the infants in a controller manner to re- evaluate their vitamin status at six wee...


Licence #5006
Principal Investigator: Poole, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To draft nutrition guidelines on nutritious foods and safe food management for the Day Care centres in the N.W.T....


Licence #2095
Principal Investigator: Schaefer, O.
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To gain an updated picture of the health and nutritional status in a large mixed northern community....


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