Inuit-defined determinants of food security in academic research focusing on Inuit Nunangat and Alaska: A scoping review protocol ...

• Main Authors: Naylor, Angus, Kenny, Tiff-Annie, Harper, Sherilee, Beale, Dorothy, Premji, Zahra, Furgal, Chris, Ford, James, Little, Matthew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE Journals 2023
• Subjects: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified; FOS: Health sciences; Alaskan Inuit; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6391364.v1; https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Inuit-defined_determinants_of_food_security_in_academic_research_focusing_on_Inuit_Nunangat_and_Alaska_A_scoping_review_protocol/6391364/1

BackgroundAcademic research on food security in Inuit Nunangat and Alaska frequently adopts the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' working definition of food security and Western conceptualisations of what it means to be ‘food secure’. However, in 2014, the Alaskan branch of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) stated that academic and intergovernmental definitions and understandings ‘are important, but not what we are talking about when we say food security’. The organisation subsequently developed its own conceptualisation and definition: the Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework (AIFSCF), which in 2020 received informal assent by ICC-Canada.AimThis protocol establishes a review strategy to examine how well academic research reflects Inuit conceptualisations and understandings of food security, as outlined in the AIFSCF.MethodsReview structure and reporting will be completed according to adapted RepOrting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) guidelines. A ...