Of Kale and Caribou: Towards a Coherent Food Security Policy Mix for Nunavut
Rates of food insecurity in Nunavut are the highest in Canada. This paper will focus on the federal government’s role in solving this problem, arguing that a thorough examination of the coherence of existing arrangements, institutions, programs, and regulations that impact food insecurity in Nunavut...
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ftcarletonuniojs:oai:ojs.library.carleton.ca:article/3180 2023-05-15T16:54:55+02:00 Of Kale and Caribou: Towards a Coherent Food Security Policy Mix for Nunavut Johnson, Lauren Kathryn 2021-04-30 application/pdf https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180 eng eng School of Public Policy and Administration https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180/2901 https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180 Copyright (c) 2021 Lauren Kathryn Johnson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Carleton Perspectives on Public Policy; Vol. 7 (2021); 37–92 2563-3260 Nunavut food security info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftcarletonuniojs 2022-01-23T08:07:40Z Rates of food insecurity in Nunavut are the highest in Canada. This paper will focus on the federal government’s role in solving this problem, arguing that a thorough examination of the coherence of existing arrangements, institutions, programs, and regulations that impact food insecurity in Nunavut is needed. As an example, this paper will focus on three factors that contribute to food insecurity among the Inuit of Nunavut and policies that seek to address them or that exacerbate them: 1) high prices of food sourced from southern Canada, and the efficacy of the Government of Canada’s program, Nutrition North Canada, in decreasing those prices; 2) decreased rates of country food consumption and possible programming to increase that consumption; and 3) the role of large-scale infrastructure projects in damaging the Inuit traditional food system, followed by recommendations for the types of infrastructure projects that would strengthen food security, rather than harm it. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Nunavut Journals at Carleton University Nunavut Canada |
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Rates of food insecurity in Nunavut are the highest in Canada. This paper will focus on the federal government’s role in solving this problem, arguing that a thorough examination of the coherence of existing arrangements, institutions, programs, and regulations that impact food insecurity in Nunavut is needed. As an example, this paper will focus on three factors that contribute to food insecurity among the Inuit of Nunavut and policies that seek to address them or that exacerbate them: 1) high prices of food sourced from southern Canada, and the efficacy of the Government of Canada’s program, Nutrition North Canada, in decreasing those prices; 2) decreased rates of country food consumption and possible programming to increase that consumption; and 3) the role of large-scale infrastructure projects in damaging the Inuit traditional food system, followed by recommendations for the types of infrastructure projects that would strengthen food security, rather than harm it. |
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Of Kale and Caribou: Towards a Coherent Food Security Policy Mix for Nunavut |
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Of Kale and Caribou: Towards a Coherent Food Security Policy Mix for Nunavut |
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of kale and caribou: towards a coherent food security policy mix for nunavut |
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School of Public Policy and Administration |
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2021 |
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https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180 |
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Nunavut Canada |
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Carleton Perspectives on Public Policy; Vol. 7 (2021); 37–92 2563-3260 |
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https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180/2901 https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cpopp/article/view/3180 |
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Copyright (c) 2021 Lauren Kathryn Johnson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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