Heather Sunderland
The Arctic Resilience Forum: Food Security
The Polar Institute is pleased to support the Arctic Resilience Forum, an online series hosted by the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and co-organized by the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
Event Sponsor
Event Co-Sponsors
- Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council
- Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council
- Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center
Overview
Achieving food security has been a varying challenge across diverse Arctic communities, but Covid-19 has laid bare particular challenges associated with supply chain disruption and access to food and conveyed the urgency of addressing these issues within a larger resilience framework.
Through brief presentations and discussion this session highlighted the unique challenges and opportunities for producing and ensuring access to high-quality, culturally relevant food for Arctic communities, as well as examine innovative case studies. Specific topics to be featured include Aleut perspectives, Russia’s new Food Security Doctrine, Iceland’s use of geothermal energy in food production, local food system resilience in Finnish Lapland, innovative research at Northern (Arctic) Federal University in Arkhangelsk on bio-monitoring and agroforestry, and more.
Russian translation is available for this and all Arctic Resilience Forum sessions, thanks to the support of the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Watch the event recording.
Speakers
Panelists
Vladimir Pushkarev
Georgii Sukhanov
Liza Mack, PhD
Anders Oskal
Dele Raheem
Tatiana Sorokina, PhD
Sergey Koptev
Kelly Uhlig
Lyubov Zarubina
Hosted By
Polar Institute
Since its inception in 2017, the Polar Institute has become a premier forum for discussion and policy analysis of Arctic and Antarctic issues, and is known in Washington, DC and elsewhere as the Arctic Public Square. The Institute holistically studies the central policy issues facing these regions—with an emphasis on Arctic governance, climate change, economic development, scientific research, security, and Indigenous communities—and communicates trusted analysis to policymakers and other stakeholders. Read more
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