1st Edition
Food Security in the High North Contemporary Challenges Across the Circumpolar Region
Part 1: Food Security, Traditional Knowledge and Livelihoods
1. ‘The Role of Stockfish in Local Food Security: Traditional Knowledge, Transmission and Change in Lofoten, Norway’
Johana Evelyn Montalvan Castilla
2. Traditional Reindeer Rangeland Management and a (Human) Rights-Based Approach to Food Sovereignty
Assi Harkoma and Bruce C. Forbes
3. Sami Reindeer Herders and the Radioactive Reindeer: Food Security from Different Voice
Moeko Minagawa
4. Traditional Nutrition of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia: Challenges and Impact on Food Security and Health
Elena Bogdanova, Andrey Lobanov, Sergei Andronov, Andrei Popov, Ruslan Kochkin and Ildikó Asztalos Morell
5. Dietary Issues in Contemporary Greenland: Dietary Patterns, Food Insecurity, and the Role of Traditional Food Among Greenlandic Inuit in the Twenty-First Century
Peter Bjerregaard, Ingelise Olesen, Tine Curtis, and Christina V.L. Larsen
Part 2: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Food (In)Security
6. Human Rights Begin with Breakfast: Maintenance of and Access to Stable Traditional Food Systems with a Focus on the European High Arctic
Kamrul Hossain and Noor Jahan Punam
7. Sami Identity and Traditional Livelihood Practices: From Non-Indigenous to Indigenous Food Frameworks
Corinna Casi
8. Food Security Management in the Western Russian Arctic Zone: Current Status and Information Support Issues
Maxim Shishaev, Zhanna Kasparyan and Pavel Lomov
9. Arctic Food Crisis Management
Christer Pursiainen
10. Food Security from a Food Regimes Perspective
Victòria Soldevila Lafon
Part 3: Arctic Food Security Keys to the Future
11. Some Reflections on Swedish Food Strategies from a Sami and an Arctic Perspective
Lena Maria Nilsson
12. Bridging Food Security Gaps in the European High North Through the Internet of Food
Dele Raheem, Borja Ramis Ferrer, and Jose L. Martinez Lastra
13. Food Security and Fertiliser Supply: The Role of Arctic Deposits
Hinnerk Gnutzmann and Piotr Śpiewanowski
14. Community-Led Initiatives as Innovative Responses: Shaping the Future of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Canada
Thora Martina Herrmann, Philip A. Loring, Tricia Fleming, Shirley Thompson, Annie Lamalice, Marion Macé, Véronique Coxam, Geraldine Laurendeau, and Sylvie Blangy
15. Building Traditional Food Knowledge: An Approach to Food Security Through North-South Dialogue
Anne Ouma
Biography
Kamrul Hossain is a research professor and director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the University of Lapland. He led several research projects with a focus on human rights and human security in the Arctic, and has widely published in these disciplines.
Lena Maria Nilsson is an experienced nutritional epidemiologist with a research focus on traditional Sami food as a determinant of health and on food security in the Arctic. Since 2019, she is the vice director at the Centre for Sami Research at Umeå University, Sweden.
Thora Martina Herrmann is a cultural geographer with expertise in action-research projects in polar regions on place-based Indigenous knowledge and identity and the social-cultural dimensions of human-environment interactions. She works in First Nation, Inuit, Mapuce, and Sámi contexts.
