Toward food security in Canada's North

In 2011, an authoritative and wide-ranging expert panel set out to assess the factors that influence food insecurity in northern Canada and the health implications for Aboriginal populations in the North. [...] The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) released its findings in the 2014 report Aboriginal Food Security in Northern Canada: An Assessment of the State of Knowledge, concluding that “there is a food security crisis in northern Canada,” and that the crisis is particularly acute in some Aboriginal communities. [...] Other key findings included the importance of increasing access to country food through activities such as hunting, fishing, foraging, trapping and pastoralism, as well as improving the promotion of nutrition education and the transfer of traditional skills to improve food sustainability in the North. [...] These projects aim to improve provide to residents with modest or no other means of knowledge about fish stocks, contribute to support.5 Since the 1960s, the Government of Canada has the sustainability of the industry, and support subsidized food in northern communities through such economic opportunities and job creation in initiatives as the Food Mail Program, which was replaced Nunavut’s fisher [...] There are two levels of Makimaniq Plan that identified food security as one of subsidies that reflect the perishability and nutritional value the six critical elements of poverty reduction, the strategy of food products, with the highest subsidies provided for proposes actions for six key themes of food insecurity.