Frequency of consumption of foods and beverages by Inuvialuit adults in Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Zotor, Francis; Sheehy, Tony; Lupu, Madalina; Kolahdooz, Fariba; Corriveau, André; Sharma, Sangita

doi:10.3109/09637486.2012.676029

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“…The Inuvialuit component of HFN included three of the six ISR communities, where two received the intervention and one served as a control group with delayed intervention. Program impacts were evaluated in relation to psychosocial (Mead, Gittelsohn, De Roose, & Sharma, 2010a;Mead, Gittelsohn, Roache, Corriveau, & Sharma, 2013) socio-economic , healthy eating behaviour, and diet quality outcomes (Bains et al, 2014;Kolahdooz, Butler, et al, 2014;Zotor et al, 2012). Overall, HFN showed some success in mitigating the negative impacts of the nutrition transition among Inuvialuit.…”

Section: Nutrition Education and Food Preparation Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

Kenny

Wesche

Fillion³

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Food insecurity among Indigenous Peoples of northern Canada is a significant public health issue that is exacerbated by changing social and environmental conditions. While a patchwork of programs, strategies and polices exist, the extent to which they address all "pillars" of food security (food availability, access, quality, and utilization) remains under-assessed. We respond to this gap by providing a framework for synthesizing and assessing information about food security initiatives, using a case study of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), the westernmost Inuit region of Canada. Our objectives are: (1) to identify existing initiatives in the ISR; (2) to assess the breadth and diversity of these initiatives in addressing the four key food security "pillars"; and (3) to present an analytical framework that will facilitate ongoing data updating and sharing in the ISR and elsewhere. Through a scoping review and direct consultation with 12 key informants, we identified 30 initiatives that support food security in the ISR. These are funded and implemented at a range of national, territorial, regional, and local levels, and include both governmental and non-governmental programs, strategic frameworks, and research and monitoring initiatives. Seven key themes emerged from the cross-scale analysis of these initiatives, including: orientation with respect to food security pillars, scope and scale, demographic targeting, funding, monitoring and evaluation, and implications for food security CFS/RCÉA Kenny, Wesche, Fillion, MacLean, & Chan Vol. 5 No. 2, May 2018 74 strategies. While our framework provides a useful tool for data synthesis and analysis, its outputs can help in identifying gaps and opportunities for both resource allocation and program and policy development for under-served communities. Significantly, this study highlights the importance of engaging local perspectives in the development of coordinated approaches to address Inuit food insecurity.

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Section: Nutrition Education and Food Preparation Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

Kenny

Wesche

Fillion³

et al. 2018

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“…Terrestrial organisms such as caribou (Rangifer tarandus) often provide the traditional foods that are most frequently consumed in many indigenous Arctic communities (e.g. Zotor et al 2012).…”

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Mechanistic modeling of persistent organic pollutant exposure among indigenous Arctic populations: motivations, challenges, and benefits

2017

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Indigenous Arctic populations experience elevated exposures to many environmental contaminants compared with groups residing in southern Canada. This is largely due to consumption of traditional foods, some of which (ringed seals, beluga whales, narwhals, etc.) have relatively high concentrations of persistent organic pollutants. Models of contaminant fate, transport, and bioaccumulation represent powerful tools to explore this exposure issue, wherein combined models can be used to mechanistically and dynamically describe the entire sequence of events linking chemical emissions into the environment to ultimate contaminant concentrations in indigenous Arctic populations. In this review, various approaches adapted and applied to understanding indigenous Arctic contaminant exposure are explored, including early models describing body burdens in single traditional food species to more recent approaches holistically examining uptake and bioaccumulation in entire food chains. The applications of these models are also discussed, including attempts to (i) identify chemical properties favouring transport to, and bioaccumulation in, the Arctic; (ii) clarify the main determinants of temporal trends observed in indigenous Arctic biomonitoring; (iii) explore the impacts of permanent and temporary dietary transitions on current and future indigenous Arctic contaminant exposures; and (iv) correlate modeled early-life pollutant exposures with measured health impacts. The review demonstrates the effectiveness of mechanistic model approaches in investigating indigenous Arctic contaminant exposure, and confirms their utility in continued improvements to understanding associated risk in this unique population context.

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“…At the same time, there are further signals that all is not well with food systems in the NWT. The obesity rate in the NWT is 10% higher than the Canadian average (GNWT, 2011b) and there has been a well-documented nutrition transition among the NWT's Indigenous populations from land-based diets to imported foods of low nutritional value with detrimental health effects (Receveur, Boulay, & Kuhnlein, 1997;Sharma, et al, 2009;Zotor, et al, 2012;Sheehy, et al, 2014). As well, climate change is fundamentally altering landscapes in the NWT (Price et al, 2013), limiting access and availability of traditional food sources.…”

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“…Wesche et al (2016) argue that land-based programming is effective in contributing to long-term food security and food sovereignty in NWT communities, as they support cultural continuity and increased knowledge of the land as well as harvesting, preparation and consumption practices. Many studies have highlighted the rapid 'nutrition transition' that northern Indigenous communities are experiencing, with decreasing traditional food use and increasing consumption of store-bought lownutritional value foods (Sharma, et al, 2009;Zotor, et al, 2012;Receveur, et al, 1997).…”

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Using Participatory Action Research to Support Civil Society Action for a Sustainable Food System in Yellowknife

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Grounded in the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies, this thesis examines the opportunities and challenges associated with encouraging multi-stakeholder collaboration around the vision of a more just and sustainable food system for Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (NWT). In partnership, the researcher and community research partners identified the following research question: How can community members and organizations, local businesses, and decision-makers from the City of Yellowknife collaboratively engage around the vision and principles of the Yellowknife Food Charter to improve the policy arena for a just and sustainable food system for Yellowknife? Grounded in political economy theories of sustainable food systems and governance, this thesis addresses this question through praxis -the cycle of reflection and action. To reflect, this thesis examines the role of PAR in realizing actions for the food charter, focusing on the importance of decolonizing research through trust and partnership, and on community ownership of research questions and process. It also makes recommendations for building trust in research through explicitly discussing the expectations of a PAR process with local research partners prior to and throughout the research. As action, the Coalition collaboratively identified the need for a municipal food strategy to improve the local policy arena and this thesis includes a set of policy briefs to be used by the Coalition to present to the local municipality. These briefs are contextualized by a historicized account of the Yellowknife food system.

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Frequency of consumption of foods and beverages by Inuvialuit adults in Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories

Mechanistic modeling of persistent organic pollutant exposure among indigenous Arctic populations: motivations, challenges, and benefits

Using Participatory Action Research to Support Civil Society Action for a Sustainable Food System in Yellowknife

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