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“Tackling food insecurity in Canada’s Arctic is a complex issue, but one thing is clear, solutions need to come from the communities affected, not from southern capitals, heard a recent ‘hackathon’ in the Inuit self-governing region of Nunatsiavut.
“Sometimes things just work differently in the North,” Kristeen McTavish, the Nunatsiavut Government’s food security coordinator, told Eye on the Arctic in a phone interview. “We have to not only listen, but really take into account what northerners are saying and trust they know what is needed to make their regions healthy.”
Approximately two dozen people participated in the October 25-26 event, held in Nain, a community in the Inuit self-governing region of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Atlantic Canada.
The event was initiated by The Gordon Foundation, a charitable foundation that specialises in northern issues and policy.
None of the participants could be reached by Eye on the Arctic before deadline, but the list of those involved included everyone from subsistence hunters and nutritionists to policy makers, and came from all of Canada’s northern territories; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut; along with the Inuit self-governing regions of Nunatsiavut and Nunavik, in northern Quebec.
The ‘hackathoners’ were divided into groups of five or six along with a facilitator. Together they took on questions looking at all aspects of food security.”
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