Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
This article presents the challenges facing reindeer herding as being both a profitable business and part of the traditional culture of the nomadic Indigenous peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia which addresses substantial needs of the local population. Reindeer herding products are used a...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:71fee028101049a088d3fbdf8813e6de 2023-05-15T14:55:36+02:00 Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Elena Bogdanova Sergei Andronov Ildiko Asztalos Morell Kamrul Hossain Dele Raheem Praskovia Filant Andrey Lobanov 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207570 https://doaj.org/article/71fee028101049a088d3fbdf8813e6de EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/20/7570 https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827 https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601 doi:10.3390/ijerph17207570 1660-4601 1661-7827 https://doaj.org/article/71fee028101049a088d3fbdf8813e6de International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 7570, p 7570 (2020) food sovereignty reindeer herding food value chain Indigenous peoples COVID-19 pandemic the Arctic Medicine R article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207570 2022-12-30T22:57:27Z This article presents the challenges facing reindeer herding as being both a profitable business and part of the traditional culture of the nomadic Indigenous peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia which addresses substantial needs of the local population. Reindeer herding products are used as traditional nutrition, and as effective preventive means and remedies for adapting to the cold and geomagnetic activity in the High North. Export trends of traditional reindeer products have decreased local Indigenous peoples’ access to venison and had a negative impact on their health. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially urgent for the Indigenous peoples to have sufficient access to traditional food and be involved in policy decision-making to maintain this traditional business. We aim to analyze the dependencies of Indigenous peoples on the reindeer produce–exporting “food value chain” and explore how (1) the independence of reindeer herders could be increased in these export chains and (2) how provision of their products to local communities could be secured. The study takes a multidisciplinary approach based on policy and socioeconomic analyses with input from medical research. Primary sources include data collected from interviews and surveys of Indigenous peoples during expeditions to the Nyda settlement, the Nydinskaya tundra, the Tazovsky settlement, the Tazovskaya tundra, the Nakhodka tundra, the Gyda and Gydansky settlements, the Yavai-Salinskaya tundra, the Seyakha settlement, the Seyakhinskaya and Tambeyskaya tundras located along the southern coast of the Ob Bay, the northeast coast of the Yamal Peninsula, the Tazovsky and Gydansky Peninsulas, and the Shuryshkarsky district. Data were collected during the summers and winters of 2014–2020. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Tundra Yamal Peninsula Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Gyda ENVELOPE(78.436,78.436,70.885,70.885) Nyda ENVELOPE(72.923,72.923,66.625,66.625) Ob' Bay ENVELOPE(163.367,163.367,-70.583,-70.583) Tazovsky ENVELOPE(78.716,78.716,67.472,67.472) Yamal Peninsula ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 20 7570 |
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This article presents the challenges facing reindeer herding as being both a profitable business and part of the traditional culture of the nomadic Indigenous peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia which addresses substantial needs of the local population. Reindeer herding products are used as traditional nutrition, and as effective preventive means and remedies for adapting to the cold and geomagnetic activity in the High North. Export trends of traditional reindeer products have decreased local Indigenous peoples’ access to venison and had a negative impact on their health. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially urgent for the Indigenous peoples to have sufficient access to traditional food and be involved in policy decision-making to maintain this traditional business. We aim to analyze the dependencies of Indigenous peoples on the reindeer produce–exporting “food value chain” and explore how (1) the independence of reindeer herders could be increased in these export chains and (2) how provision of their products to local communities could be secured. The study takes a multidisciplinary approach based on policy and socioeconomic analyses with input from medical research. Primary sources include data collected from interviews and surveys of Indigenous peoples during expeditions to the Nyda settlement, the Nydinskaya tundra, the Tazovsky settlement, the Tazovskaya tundra, the Nakhodka tundra, the Gyda and Gydansky settlements, the Yavai-Salinskaya tundra, the Seyakha settlement, the Seyakhinskaya and Tambeyskaya tundras located along the southern coast of the Ob Bay, the northeast coast of the Yamal Peninsula, the Tazovsky and Gydansky Peninsulas, and the Shuryshkarsky district. Data were collected during the summers and winters of 2014–2020. |
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Elena Bogdanova Sergei Andronov Ildiko Asztalos Morell Kamrul Hossain Dele Raheem Praskovia Filant Andrey Lobanov |
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Elena Bogdanova Sergei Andronov Ildiko Asztalos Morell Kamrul Hossain Dele Raheem Praskovia Filant Andrey Lobanov |
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Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Food Sovereignty of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Response to COVID-19 Pandemic |
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food sovereignty of the indigenous peoples in the arctic zone of western siberia: response to covid-19 pandemic |
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