The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, in cooperation with the Food (in)Security research project organizes a workshop on “Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to Promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North” on Friday, 13th October, 2017. The workshop will take place in the facilities of the Council of Baltic States (CBSS), Stockholm.

The event brings together wide network of scholars working in the discipline of food security from Canada, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Russia, Spain and Finland. The workshop aims at promoting new knowledge concerning the effect of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic in regard to promoting overall food security.

Relevamce of the workshop:
Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North -project will address the issues of food (in)security amongst the Arctic population, from a different angle that will identify the contribution of traditional and local foods in alleviating food (in)security in the region. The environmental, technological and economical changes witnessed by European High North communities threaten their traditional food supply. It will be important to gather facts from the local people on the effects of these changes through academic research on how they experience access to food and food safety, and seek ways to minimise the accumulation of contaminants in these traditional foods. The expected results from the project will help to identify obstacles to food insecurity causing the effect on the enjoyment of basic human rights among the most vulnerable groups of people of the Arctic.

Workshop: Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to Promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North
Date & Time: Friday, October 13, 2017 - 09:00 to 16:30
Location: Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Slussplan 9, 103 11 Stockholm (SWE)