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The Arctic States’ Strategies and the Northern Regions’ Food Security
The Arctic States’ Strategies and the Northern Regions’ Food Security

Author(s): Andrey Kondrashev, Mariia Nikitenko, Svetlana Trofimova, Inna Trofimova, Larissa Gotsko
Subject(s): Economy, Agriculture
Published by: Institute of Society Transformation
Keywords: Rational Consumption Norms; Basket of goods; Siberian Arctic Regions; Food Security; Dedicated Nature Management Areas; Minor Indigenous Peoples;

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes strategies established by the Arctic states (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, and USA) for development of their northern regions, with emphasis to food security issues of the Siberian Arctic regions in Russia, specifically Far North area of Krasnoyarsk Krai. Of particular interest is the state of food supply to aforementioned areas. The authors put forward the measures to actively involve the population of the Arctic regions and indigenous peoples of the Far North in the self-procurement of food by utilizing of indigenous subsistence economy products.

  • Issue Year: 162/2016
  • Issue No: 11-12
  • Page Range: 32-37
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English