The Continued Importance of Hunting for Future Inuit Food Security
Inuit living in the Canadian Arctic have undergone rapid societal changes in the last half century, including moving into permanent settlements, the introduction of formal education, participation in the wage-economy, mechanization of hunting and travel, and increased consumption of store-bought foo...
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ftunivscoast:usc:22074 2023-05-15T15:06:20+02:00 The Continued Importance of Hunting for Future Inuit Food Security Hoover, Carie Ostertag, Sonja Hornby, Claire Parker, Colleen Hansen-Craik, Kayla Loseto, Lisa Pearce, T 2016 https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/continued-importance-hunting-future-inuit-food-security/ eng eng Solutions usc:22074 URN:ISSN: 2154-0896 Copyright © 2017 The Solutions Journal. This work is under the Creative Commons-Share Alike license. FoR 0502 (Environmental Science and Management) Journal Article 2016 ftunivscoast 2019-06-17T22:27:47Z Inuit living in the Canadian Arctic have undergone rapid societal changes in the last half century, including moving into permanent settlements, the introduction of formal education, participation in the wage-economy, mechanization of hunting and travel, and increased consumption of store-bought foods. Despite these changes, country foods—locally harvested fish and wildlife—continue to be important in the lives of many Inuit for food security. However, fewer people are hunting full-time and some households are without an active hunter, limiting their access to country foods. This shift has increased reliance on processed foods purchased at the store to meet their daily food needs. These foods are often expensive, less nutritious, highly processed to endure long shelf lives, and less desirable than country foods. An entry point to strengthen Inuit food security is to support the acquisition of culturally-appropriate country foods through subsistence hunting and fishing. This entails supporting the transmission of environmental knowledge and land skills important for subsistence among generations, providing harvesters with necessary resources, and securing reliable cold storage in communities (e.g. community freezers) to preserve country foods during increasingly warmer summer months. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic inuit University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia: COAST Research Database Arctic |
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Inuit living in the Canadian Arctic have undergone rapid societal changes in the last half century, including moving into permanent settlements, the introduction of formal education, participation in the wage-economy, mechanization of hunting and travel, and increased consumption of store-bought foods. Despite these changes, country foods—locally harvested fish and wildlife—continue to be important in the lives of many Inuit for food security. However, fewer people are hunting full-time and some households are without an active hunter, limiting their access to country foods. This shift has increased reliance on processed foods purchased at the store to meet their daily food needs. These foods are often expensive, less nutritious, highly processed to endure long shelf lives, and less desirable than country foods. An entry point to strengthen Inuit food security is to support the acquisition of culturally-appropriate country foods through subsistence hunting and fishing. This entails supporting the transmission of environmental knowledge and land skills important for subsistence among generations, providing harvesters with necessary resources, and securing reliable cold storage in communities (e.g. community freezers) to preserve country foods during increasingly warmer summer months. |
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The Continued Importance of Hunting for Future Inuit Food Security |
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The Continued Importance of Hunting for Future Inuit Food Security |
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The Continued Importance of Hunting for Future Inuit Food Security |
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