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Can Greenhouses Increase Food Sovereignty in Remote Canadian Arctic Communities?
Principal Investigator: Robetson, Julie Belinda
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5266. This objective of this research is to understand the success of the Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk greenhouses. Who grows their own food and how does it impact the community? In Inuvik the Principal Investigator (PI) is interested in how the greenhouse has operated and adapted the business model to continue to function and pr...


Food security, Social and Environmental Justice and resilience in the Canadian Arctic, using Participatory Video Method
Principal Investigator: Gauthier, Maeva
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2020 2019 2018
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5073. This research will help better understand youth resilience and mobilization related to global changes of concern in the Arctic, more specifically the community of Tuktoyaktuk. To achieve this goal, the principal investigator (PI) will ask the questions: 1. In the context of escalating anticipated and unanticipated c...


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...


Promoting Inuit food sovereignty: Community perspectives on the commercialization of country foods
Principal Investigator: Tod-Tims, Cahley
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4504. The primary goal of this research is to examine the following research questions using qualitative methods: 1) between whom, involving the transfer of which resources (food, money, equipment), and under what circumstances is country food currently exchanged? and, 2) what are the local desires for and concerns towards ...


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 of...


Socio-Economic Perspectives on Changing Caribou Populations in Tuktoyaktuk
Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The goal is to learn more about the socio-economic dimensions of changing caribou populations (Cape Bathurst, Bluenose West and Porcupine) in the Inuvialuit region including i) local perceptions of caribou population change; ii) impacts on livelihood and food security; iii) responses of individuals/households and communities. The work will aim to answer the following questions: 1) What role do...


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