Coming out of the foodshed: change and innovation in rural Alaskan food systems

• Main Author: Loring, Philip A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Bia; Fairbanks; Yukon; Athabascan; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6934

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007 This thesis is a combined volume containing three individual research papers, each written for submission to a different peer-reviewed journal. Each to some extent investigates community resiliency and vulnerability as they manifest in the past and present of Alaska Native foodways. The first paper, 'Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska' examines the historical dimensions of cropping by Athabascan peoples as a part of local food system development and innovation; the second introduces the 'Services-oriented Architecture' as a framework for describing ecosystem services, with the rural Alaskan model as an example; the third, from which the title of this thesis was taken, presents the process and outcomes of contemporary food system change for the Athabascan village of Minto, AK, as they 'come out of their foodshed'. The three of these papers together introduce a language and a set of frameworks for considering local food systems within a context of development and global change that are applicable throughout Alaska and indeed to cases world-wide. Introduction -- References -- 1. Outpost gardening in Interior Alaska : historical dimensions of food system innovation and the Alaska Native gardens of the 1930s-70s -- 1.1. Abstract -- 1.2. Introduction -- 1.3. Subsistence : the legislative geography of Alaska natives -- 1.3.1. Customary, traditional -- 1.4. Setting : Interior Alaska, the Yukon and Tanana River flats -- 1.5. Background : a perspective on Alaska and Alaska Natives' agricultural history -- 1.6. BIA records -- 1.6.1. Arctic village 1960-1964 -- 1.6.2. Beaver 1940-1967 -- 1.63. Fort Yukon 1941-1958 -- 1.6.4. Minto 1941-1963 -- 1.6.5. Stevens Village 1941-1967 -- 1.6.6. Venetie 1941-1971 -- 1.7. Discussion : innovation, overinnovation, and outpost agriculture -- 1.8. Conclusion -- 1.9. Figures -- 1.10. Tables -- 1.11. References -- 2. A services-oriented architecture (SOA) for analyzing social-ecological systems -- 2.1. Abstract -- 2.2. Introduction -- ...