This is a past event
Informal roundtable talking about food, climate change, food safety, nutrition, and community-led research in Nunavut (and elsewhere)
Date: Friday 29 March 1300:1400
Location: Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 2
Amy Caughey s a public health nutritionist in Nunavut, Canada and honorary fellow at the University of Alberta. For the past 20 years she's been living in Iqaluit, Nunavut and closely involved with a range of initiatives relating to Inuit country food, food security, diabetes education, prenatal nutrition, and zoonotic disease prevention & food safety in the Arctic. She is a Co-I on the Aberdeen-administered Inuksiutit: Inuit Food Sovereignty research project: Inuksiutit: Inuit Food Sovereignty research project.
Amy and Nancy Wachowich will lead an informal discussion about Inuit food systems and challenges brought on by climate change in the context of Nunavut. Topics may include: lab testing of walrus tongues, killer whales, narwhal nutrition, geese and avian flu, animal heads, fermentation, trichinella and gut biomes, among others. Her most recent co-authored article "We call it soul food": Inuit women and the role of country food in health and well-being in Nunavut" can be accessed here: “We call it soul food”: Inuit women and the role of country food in health and well-being in Nunavut" can be accessed here.
- Speaker
- Amy Caughey
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 2