Country food sharing networks, household structure, and implications for understanding food insecurity in Arctic Canada

• Published in: Ecology of Food and Nutrition
• Main Authors: Collings, Peter, Marten, Meredith G, Pearce, T, Young, Alyson G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Inc. 2016
• Subjects: FoR 1111 (Nutrition and Dietetics); FoR 0908 (Food Sciences); food security; food sharing; industrial foods; Inuit; traditional foods; Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Ulukhaktok; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2015.1072812

We examine the cultural context of food insecurity among Inuit in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. An analysis of the social network of country food exchanges among 122 households in the settlement reveals that a household’s betweenness centrality—a measure of brokerage—in the country food...