Capitals, climate change and food security: Building sustainable food systems in northern Canadian Indigenous communities
For many Indigenous communities in Canada’s northern boreal forest, the impacts of climate change are directly affecting their ability to access the land they rely on for traditional foods to support their food systems and livelihoods. However, climate change is merely one stressor for communities t...
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ftwlaurieruniv:oai:scholars.wlu.ca:etd-3149 2023-06-11T04:15:26+02:00 Capitals, climate change and food security: Building sustainable food systems in northern Canadian Indigenous communities Spring, Andrew 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2034 https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/3149/viewcontent/ASpring___Dissertation___Final.pdf en eng Scholars Commons @ Laurier https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2034 https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/3149/viewcontent/ASpring___Dissertation___Final.pdf 2 Publicly accessible Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) Climate change food security participatory action research resilience Northern Indigenous communities Environmental Studies text 2018 ftwlaurieruniv 2023-05-07T16:38:25Z For many Indigenous communities in Canada’s northern boreal forest, the impacts of climate change are directly affecting their ability to access the land they rely on for traditional foods to support their food systems and livelihoods. However, climate change is merely one stressor for communities that have undergone dramatic social, cultural and political changes during the past decades. This research examines case studies in the communities of Délı̨nę and Kakisa, Northwest Territories (NWT), and identifies community-based solutions to build more sustainable food systems with a focus on food security and climate change. Using participatory action research methods to ensure the process is community-driven and responds to stakeholder needs, each case study identifies vulnerabilities to the respective food systems due to climate change. The Community Capitals Framework – including social, cultural, natural, financial, human, built and political capital – is used to describe and assess the complex food systems in the North. The research illustrates how a community can allocate available capitals to help adapt to the impacts of climate change and identify which capitals are required to build a more sustainable food system. In both communities, addressing issues of food security involved protecting natural capital as well as social and cultural capitals, all of which are important to maintaining traditional foods as the foundation of the food system. The capacity to teach and pass on skills and knowledge to the younger generation, and work together as a community but also with researchers and broader networks, can help promote knowledge sharing. This in turn will enhance resilience in the community in the face of climate change. Building human capital through training and education, and being supported through funding and a network of organizations, was also key to providing long-term food security to the communities through the growing of food and enhanced monitoring of the land. Issues of place, space and scale ... Text Northwest Territories Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario: Scholars Commons@Laurier Kakisa ENVELOPE(-117.356,-117.356,60.931,60.931) Northwest Territories |
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For many Indigenous communities in Canada’s northern boreal forest, the impacts of climate change are directly affecting their ability to access the land they rely on for traditional foods to support their food systems and livelihoods. However, climate change is merely one stressor for communities that have undergone dramatic social, cultural and political changes during the past decades. This research examines case studies in the communities of Délı̨nę and Kakisa, Northwest Territories (NWT), and identifies community-based solutions to build more sustainable food systems with a focus on food security and climate change. Using participatory action research methods to ensure the process is community-driven and responds to stakeholder needs, each case study identifies vulnerabilities to the respective food systems due to climate change. The Community Capitals Framework – including social, cultural, natural, financial, human, built and political capital – is used to describe and assess the complex food systems in the North. The research illustrates how a community can allocate available capitals to help adapt to the impacts of climate change and identify which capitals are required to build a more sustainable food system. In both communities, addressing issues of food security involved protecting natural capital as well as social and cultural capitals, all of which are important to maintaining traditional foods as the foundation of the food system. The capacity to teach and pass on skills and knowledge to the younger generation, and work together as a community but also with researchers and broader networks, can help promote knowledge sharing. This in turn will enhance resilience in the community in the face of climate change. Building human capital through training and education, and being supported through funding and a network of organizations, was also key to providing long-term food security to the communities through the growing of food and enhanced monitoring of the land. Issues of place, space and scale ... |
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