Reconciling traditional knowledge, food security, and climate change: Experience from Old Crow, YT, Canada

摘要

To determine community food security concerns in Old Crow, Yukon, Canada and to develop a community consensus on viable adaptation planning to address food security concerns. Old Crow is a remote, aboriginal community in Arctic Canada that is highly dependent on both traditionally harvested foods and expensive market foods for sustenance, leading to experience a high degree of food insecurity. Environmental, cultural, and economic change is altering the relationship between residents of Old Crow and their food supply. The population of Old Crow is deeply concerned about its youth and their ability to participate in traditional culture. A secure food supply is closely dependent on the ability to responsibly manage and harvest traditional food species, and alter the balance between them, if necessary. Loss of traditional knowledge and culture is widely viewed as a serious threat to traditional resource management. Market foods are a possible substitution, as is agriculture, but must be managed in conjunction with the traditional food supply.