Climate Change and Food Security in Regional Inuit Centres
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Ford
Elaine Power
Christopher Furgal
Susan Chatwood
William Gough
Description
Overview of project aimed at Identifying and characterizing the vulnerability and resilience of food systems. Phase two looked at policy linkages and attempted to identify opportunities and priorities for adaptation intervention in high risk populations.
The congregation outside the Anglican church in the community of Apex at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T. [NU]. In 1987 the community of Frobisher Bay was renamed Iqaluit.
Describes the current state of crime and violence in Inuit communities and the programs and services that exist to reduce or eliminate violence against women and girls.
Six programs are discussed: Take a Kid Trapping & Harvesting; Kugluktuk High School, School Cooking Club; Harvester Support Program; Project Nunavut and the Country Food Market; Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project; and Personal Gardening. Includes description, date program began, benefits and challenges for each initiative.
The file contains an individual presentation by Alex Morin, a concerned fisherman, discussing the Aboriginal fishery on Great Slave Lake, and his personal struggle for Metis and general Aboriginal fishing rights.