ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|87 pages
Food security, traditional knowledge and livelihoods
chapter 1|19 pages
‘The role of stockfish in local food security
chapter 2|22 pages
Traditional reindeer rangeland management and a (human) rights-based approach to food sovereignty
chapter 3|16 pages
Sami reindeer herders and the radioactive reindeer
chapter 4|20 pages
Traditional nutrition of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia
chapter 5|8 pages
Dietary issues in contemporary Greenland
part II|100 pages
Multi-disciplinary perspectives on food (in)security
chapter 6|18 pages
Human rights begin with breakfast
chapter 7|16 pages
Sami identity and traditional livelihood practices
chapter 8|22 pages
Food security management in the Western Russian Arctic zone
part III|101 pages
Arctic food security keys to the future