Sharing country food: connecting health, food security and cultural continuity in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Newell, Sarah L., Doubleday, Nancy C., Nunavut, & Community of Chesterfield Inlet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2020
• Subjects: Inuit; culture; traditional knowledge; climate change; Chesterfield Inlet; health and well-being; Arctic; Nunavut; Climate change; inuit; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3755; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v39.3755

Food security is a complex topic defined not just by having enough nutritious food to eat but also by cost, safety and cultural considerations. In Arctic Inuit communities, food security is intimately connected to culture through traditional methods of harvesting country food. In Chesterfield Inlet,...