Food, culture, and human health in Alaska: an integrative health approach to food security

Loring, Philip A.; Gerlach, S. Craig

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2008.10.006

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“…Availability is having sufficient quantities of food on a consistent basis, access includes the ability to purchase food or attain food from other sources and utilisation is the ability to meet daily nutrient requirements [8]. In the context of Indigenous peoples, these pillars should pay particular attention to traditional foods, which are meaningful in various pedagogical, psychological, cultural and social ways [9–14]. This focus on traditional foods when considering food security is what we call “traditional food security” and can, at a general level, only be defined loosely, given that food takes on different meanings for different people in different places.…”

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A scoping review of traditional food security in Alaska

Walch

Loring

Johnson

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Food insecurity is a public health concern. Food security includes the pillars of food access, availability and utilisation. For some indigenous peoples, this may also include traditional foods. To conduct a scoping review on traditional foods and food security in Alaska. Google Scholar and the High North Research Documents were used to search for relevant primary research using the following terms: “traditional foods”, “food security”, “access”, “availability”, “utilisation”, “Alaska”, “Alaska Native” and “indigenous”. Twenty four articles from Google Scholar and four articles from the High North Research Documents were selected. The articles revealed three types of research approaches, those that quantified traditional food intake (n=18), those that quantified food security (n=2), and qualitative articles that addressed at least one pillar of food security (n=8). Limited primary research is available on food security in Alaskan. Few studies directly measure food security while most provide a review of food security factors. Research investigating dietary intake of traditional foods is more prevalent, though many differences exist among participant age groups and geographical areas. Future research should include direct measurements of traditional food intake and food security to provide a more complete picture of traditional food security in Alaska.

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A scoping review of traditional food security in Alaska

Walch

Loring

Johnson

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…Similar disparity in access to local fish has also been shown for communities in the Kenai Peninsula region . This is not to imply that Alaska Natives purport or expect to participate in some unchanging "traditional" food system, as new foods and subsistence strategies are regularly integrated (Loring & Gerlach, 2009). Nor is residence in a rural community a guarantee of access to traditional foods, given ongoing barriers to access created by environmental change and resource management paradigms that are organized around species conservation and resource development but not food security as idealized outcomes (Loring & Gerlach, 2010).…”

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“…These include: (1) an examination of the heat-or-eat crisis and food assistance in Fairbanks (Fazzino & Loring, 2009); (2) an examination of the historic contribution of outpost agriculture in Alaska (Loring & Gerlach, 2009); (3) an examination of fisheries in Alaska (Loring & Gerlach, 2010;Loring, Gerlach & Harrison, 2013); (4) a study of community supported agriculture members and producers in interior Alaska building off the work of Durrenberger (2002) by Fazzino, Garcia, and Loring in 2009;and (5) a series of studies on perceptions of healthy, local, and organic foods at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) (a number of locally distributed reports from Fazzino in 2010and 2011and Mohammadi in 2013. Collectively these forays into Alaska's food system have shown us that economics matters, particularly with respect to how differently situated individuals have a variety of means to access food resources and define one another as members of the same community.…”

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Participation and Investment in Local Agriculture: What’s in a Community?

Fazzino

Loring

Mohammadi

2013

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“…Arctic and subarctic climates cannot generally sustain the biomass necessary to grow crops or raise livestock. This has caused many communities in rural Alaska to shift from self-sustaining to relying on imported goods [2]. Furthermore, northern biomes grow notoriously slow and have a low concentration of biomass.…”

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Solar Heat Pipe for Greenhouse Application in the Arctic Regions: A Case Study

Cain¹,

Hoflich²,

Ofeldt³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (FFHMT'18)

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-Rural communities throughout arctic and subarctic regions of the world have difficulties providing cost-effective means of growing produce during the winter months. Plants need light and heat in order to survive and grow, both of which are in short supply during the long, cold winters. The average temperature of the spring and fall seasons in Fairbanks, Alaska is only about 30 to 40°F, which provides unreliable conditions to grow most crops. The traditional growing season in northern areas is roughly four months long, which is too short for many plants to grow and/or produce fruit. The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the use of solar heat pipe vacuum collectors to elongate the growing season of greenhouses in the arctic regions. The greenhouse utilizes the collection and retention of solar heat and a thermal mass to store the heat during days and release during nights. The solar heat pipe captures solar radiation, which heats a water-propylene glycol mix to act as the carrying medium. This fluid is pumped into the adjacent greenhouse and through the thermal mass unit. The thermal mass consists of two concrete slabs and dissipates the stored heat to normalize temperature fluctuations between night and day. A test greenhouse was built with dimensions of 12 ft by 10 ft with a height of 6 to 8 ft in Fairbanks, Alaska. Data collections for a performance analysis were made in April 2017. The experiments showed that the temperature of the greenhouse was above 60°F, at an external temperature of 32°F. The solar heat pipe with thermal mass system increased the average greenhouse temperature by 11°F.

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Food, culture, and human health in Alaska: an integrative health approach to food security

Cited by 155 publications

References 60 publications

A scoping review of traditional food security in Alaska

A scoping review of traditional food security in Alaska

Participation and Investment in Local Agriculture: What’s in a Community?

Solar Heat Pipe for Greenhouse Application in the Arctic Regions: A Case Study

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