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Food Security Initiatives across the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5837. The proposed research aims to learn from and enhance community capacity to address priorities and inform both climate change and food security action and support-structures at local, regional, and territorial scales. This research will examine research questions related to food security and climate change across o...


Exploring the role of community freezers for food security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Gwich’in Settlement Area
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5789. The objective of this study is to assess and describe the feasibility, value, barriers and supports, and overall outcomes of the implementation of community freezers in the context of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) of the Northwest Territories (NWT). The study aims to develop an improved understanding of how ...


“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 Initiatives across the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4936. This research aims to learn from and enhance community capacity to address priorities and inform both climate change and food security action and support-structures at local, regional, and territorial scales. This research will examine questions related to food security and climate change across the four cross-cut...


Country Foods for Good Health: Developing a country food database for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Principal Investigator: Ostertag, Sonja K
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4532. The short-term objectives of this study are to: 1) determine the current concentrations of contaminants and nutrients in Inuvialuit country foods; and 2) develop a health communication and risk perception survey tailored for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) – the ISR Health Messages Survey. In the long-term, ...


Collaborative Research: Food Sovereignty and Self-Governance – Inuit Role in Managing Arctic Marine Resources
Principal Investigator: Behe, Carolina
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017
Summary: Objectives of this research are: to synthesize and evaluate existing legal frameworks for Inuit self-governance reflected in legal authorities in the United States (U.S.) and Canada; 2) to evaluate how existing Inuit self-governance approaches operate in practice by examining four co-management case studies as examples of approaches to food sovereignty, in order to gain a comprehensive understandi...


Supporting Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Working with Communities to Integrate Participatory Methods, Tools and Knowledge
Principal Investigator: Wesche, Sonia D
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016 2015
Summary: Building on the long-standing research collaboration, the research team will: 1) work with community Research Assistants to conduct a public engagement process in the six Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) communities; 2) identify and prioritize existing and desired community-based initiatives to support food security in terms of country food, market food and locally-produced food, recognizing the...


Climate change impacts on Inuit food security in Canada’s Western Arctic: Constructing a comparative anthropological model to guide adaptation planning
Principal Investigator: Douglas, Vasiliki K
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2010
Summary: The purpose of this project is to assist the Inuvialuit in adaptation planning that will meet ongoing environmental and social challenges, while also maintaining their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The existing knowledge, skills and networks that facilitate such adaptations are important community ‘assets’ that form the basis of capacity-building. The goal ...


Healthy Foods North - Experience and Training for Northerners
Principal Investigator: De Roose, Elsie C.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008 2007
Summary: The objectives of this component of Healthy Foods North are: 1. Capacity building for community members and students in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, data collection and community engagement, with the practical learning applications being facilitated through HFN. 2.Capacity building, training and education for communications through presentations, outreach, and results...


Food Intake and Price Survey Nutrition Project
Principal Investigator: Tomalik, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Ms. Tomalik a student at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, supervised by the Inuvik Regional Nutritionist will conduct surveys in four communities. She will collect information on food prices and food intake. The information will be used in conjunction with the Department of Social Services in calculating the Food Allowance Scale....


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