The Impact of Climate Change on the Food (In)security of the Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic: Environmental and Health Risks

Bogdanova, Elena; Andronov, Sergey; Soromotin, Andrey; Detter, Gennady; Sizov, Oleg; Hossain, Kamrul; Raheem, Dele; Lobanov, Andrey

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“…Significant warming trends have already affected the Arctic Peoples' traditional lifestyle, well-being, and health in Scandinavia and the Russian Arctic [97][98][99][100]. Climate change represents a global challenge that impacts the Siberian population's environment, traditional lifestyle, and health and threatens its food security [19]. This requires increased adaptive capacity [101,102], and coping strategies [103] for changes in the terrestrial ecosystem caused by climate change are urgently needed [104,105].…”

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“…As pointed out by the Secretary-General of the UN António Guterres, "the climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win" [18]. The Arctic ecosystems are suffering from the devastating consequences of climate change: rising temperatures and environmental degradation, increased natural disasters, and weather extremes, resulting in food and water insecurity, and economic disruption [19]. Growing climate change [20][21][22][23][24] encouraged people to "climigration" caused by "immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines" [5] (p. 115), which local communities are facing nowadays.…”

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The Impact of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors on the Migration of the Rural Arctic Population of Western Siberia

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Environmental and anthropogenic factors represent challenges impacting the lifestyle and demographic rural population’s behaviour in the Russian Arctic that threaten its social and food security. We aim to explore (1) which key “push” factors are jeopardising social sustainability and increasing migration outflows in the Arctic rural communities of Western Siberia (2) and how the Siberian population’s sustainable development could be secured. The methodology and analysis were based on Lee’s theory of migration factors with the main focus on the “push” factors forcing people to migrate to other Arctic and non-Arctic territories. The primary sources included fieldwork data and interviews collected during expeditions to the Arctic zone of Western Siberia between 2000 and 2021. Both men and women confirmed the insignificant impact of environmental factors on their emigration plans. However, they signified social and personal motives related to low standards of living that threatened their social and food security. The rural Siberian population’s migration strategies could be re-evaluated only by increasing the physical availability of food products and developing the social infrastructure of the settlements as either “models of rural cities” or “service centres for nomadic and rural population”.

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“…An example of the benefit of traditional food is the consumption of reindeer venison meat, which has been shown to reduce hypertension and the risk of chronic non-obstructive bronchitis. Nowadays, as shown by Bogdanova and coauthors [69], the consumption of traditional reindeer food has decreased by almost 50 %, in part from the export of such products and the effects of climate change, which modifies seasonal fishing and disrupts the traditional migration routes of the reindeers [68]. The safety of food and water in relation to chemical/microbiological contamination is a major issue for Arctic populations, as are waterborne illnesses.…”

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The article focuses on generalizing Russian scientific and methodical developments aimed at updating and supplementing the health risk assessment methodology. This methodology is a key component in tackling tasks related to providing sanitary-epidemiological welfare of the population. Russian approaches to risk assessment are shown to have a significant peculiarity, which is a wide use of methods of multidimensional statistical analysis, mathematical modeling, fuzzy logic, and their combinations. The most significant Russian scientific innovations include development of qualitative risk assessment, non-carcinogenic health risks included; severity of health disorders taken into account in risk assessment; methodical support for assessing integral risks under exposure to heterogeneous environmental factors. Russian experts suggested and developed an idea that it was possible to model evolution of risks and their growth under changing exposures. Approaches to assessing risks evolution under long-term exposure to variable factors made it possible to solve a whole set of applied hygienic tasks. In addition to establishing qualitative characteristics of non-carcinogenic risks under exposure to chemicals, methods for assessing risks under exposure to environmental noise, certain lifestyle factors and factors related to work process have also been substantiated and implemented.Progressive development of the health risk assessment methodology ensured operative, smooth and effective transitions of control and surveillance activities performed by Rospotrebnadzor onto a fundamentally new control platform that relies on the risk-based model.Obviously, analytical opportunities offered by the health risk assessment methodology are extensive. Development of methodical grounds in hygiene and epidemiology as well as design of applied algorithms and approaches to risk assessment and management based on the fundamental methodology should involve several trends. We should extend our knowledge on mechanisms of health disorders under exposure to heterogeneous environmental factors and work-related ones; hygienic standardization needs improvement; we should apply situational modeling and prediction of sanitary-epidemiological welfare under changing or preset conditions; we should provide substantiation for the strategic and tactical regulatory actions aimed at managing threats and risks. The experience accumulated in developing the health risk assessment methodology in variable spheres should be considered a starting point for creating new risk assessment and risk management technologies. They should give an opportunity to solve any tasks related to providing sanitary-epidemiological welfare of the population in the Russian Federation.

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“…For example, in Canada, Indigenous households experience food insecurity at a rate that is more than double that of the national average, driven by high food costs, unemployment, and low income (Council of Canadian Academies 2014). In Alaska, climate change reduces the accessibility of traditional or subsistence resources, as ice conditions on rivers, lakes, and seas become less predictable (Brinkman et al 2016), and in Russia, high temperatures jeopardize Indigenous people's food security through forest and tundra fires on dry lichen pastures, forcing reindeer herders to change their nomadic routes and practices (Bogdanova et al 2021).…”

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A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review

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Arctic food systems are increasingly challenged by rapid climate change, loss of food security and subsequent weakening of food sovereignty, and destabilization of Indigenous practices. Despite growing scientific knowledge on Arctic food systems, Indigenous communities continue to struggle with a plethora of sustainability challenges. To develop a systemic understanding of these challenges, we performed a systematic review of 526 articles published between 1998 and 2021 on Arctic Indigenous food systems. We used the leverage points framework to structure our analysis to understand to what extent the existing Western scientific body of literature provides the necessary knowledge to understand the food system characteristics that give rise to the current sustainability challenges. We combined deductive qualitative and inductive quantitative approaches to identify gaps in the systemic understanding of Arctic Indigenous food systems. We characterized existing research across the four levels of systemic depth—parameters, feedbacks, design, intent—and identified promising directions for future research. Our analyses show that research on food systems is clustered within six main domains, we term environmental contaminants, diet and health, food security, food culture and economy, changing socio-ecological systems and marine and coast. Based on our analysis, we identify three directions for future research that we believe to be of particular importance to enable sustainability transformations of Arctic Indigenous food systems: (i) the decolonization of research practices, (ii) acknowledging the significance of systemic interdependencies across shallow and deep leverage points, and (iii) transdisciplinary action-oriented research collaborations directing transformative system interventions.

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The Impact of Climate Change on the Food (In)security of the Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic: Environmental and Health Risks

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The Impact of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors on the Migration of the Rural Arctic Population of Western Siberia

The Impact of Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors on the Migration of the Rural Arctic Population of Western Siberia

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A leverage points perspective on Arctic Indigenous food systems research: a systematic review

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