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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...


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...


Meeting the information needs of Inuit regarding contaminants
Principal Investigator: Usher, Peter J.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researchers will be continuing their interviews with community members on identifying contaminant issues and information needs related to those issues. Interviews will be conducted with a wide range of individuals, including harvesters, elders, women, youth and professionals. An appropriate communication strategy will be developed in an appropriate cultural and social context....


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