The Potential Use of Agroforestry Community Gardens as a Sustainable Import-Substitution Strategy for Enhancing Food Security in Subarctic Ontario, Canada

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Nicole Spiegelaar, Leonard Tsuji, Maren Oelbermann
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2013
• Subjects: subarctic First Nations; climate change; food security; adaptation; agroforestry; import substitution; sustainability; Canada; Fort Albany; First Nations; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su5094057

The high prevalence of food insecurity experienced by northern First Nations partially results from dependence on an expensive import-based food system that typically lacks nutritional quality and further displaces traditional food systems. In the present study, the feasibility of import substitutio...