The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law organized a session at the 10th ICASS Conference.
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM), in collaboration with the UArctic Law Thematic Network, organized a session at the 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences 2021 (ICASS-X) held in Arkhangelsk, Russia on June 15-19, 2021.
The session titled “Traditional food systems in the Arctic in response to the transformation of Social-Ecological System” was held on 16 June 2021. The session attracted five outstanding presentations by scholars from Canada, Finland, and Russia.
The issues that the session highlighted were as follows:
- digitalization of reindeer husbandry as a high-tech business in the Russian North as contributory to the promotion of food security;
- community-led food resilience integrating learning from the Indigenous knowledge-keepers;
- sustainable harvesting, hunting practices, and sharing of food amongst communities in response to changing societies and landscapes;
- designating the Arctic as a food laboratory; and
- the understanding of the food security of the Siberian Indigenous Peoples in response to the impacts of climate change.
Research professor Kamrul Hossain – the Director of NIEM – has chaired the session.