Agroforestry Community Gardens as a Sustainable Import-Substitution Strategy for Enhancing Food Security in Remote First Nations of Subarctic Ontario, Canada

• Main Author: Spiegelaar, Nicole
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2011
• Subjects: food security; First Nations; agroforestry; community gardens; willow intercropping; Indians of North America; intercropping; Ontario; Northern; Canada; Environmental and Resource Studies; Fort Albany; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5912

The high prevalence of food insecurity experienced by remote First Nation (FN) communities 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 impo...