{"id":132355,"date":"2024-07-15T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:00:30","slug":"heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how Europe\u2019s Indigenous peoples are using food diplomacy to save the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The S\u00e1mi community want to protect their long-earned gastronomic traditions across the continent. The glazed seal fat topping a miniature reindeer blood pancake enhances its coppery flavour. Combined with the smoked whale bites that lie on top of the dark flapjack, it is difficult to tell whether this dish tastes more like game or fish. Either way, it\u2019s delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Indigenous food is based on ingredients harvested from nature: we receive a three-course meal that embodies the richness of Sami cuisine with fish and meat appetisers, a reindeer stew and a squeaky cheese dessert with wild berries.Sitting on reindeer skin inside the Nomad Indigenous Food Lab which combines a \u2018lavvu\u2019 &#8211; the traditional S\u00e1mi tent &#8211; with a stainless steel kitchen, Indigenous youth and chefs tell researchers and policymakers about their struggles in keeping their food culture and tradition alive.<\/p>\n<p>Arctic biodiversity is the basis for Arctic food systems and the livelihood of Indigenous populations in ten countries. But, today, Arctic environments are experiencing climate and environmental changes four times faster than any other place in the world. Retreating sea ice and permafrost thawing impact pasture conditions and routes for livestock and over 100,000 nomadic Indigenous people. Changing routes make their journeys more complex: \u201cIndigenous communities are being dragged away from their berries patches,\u201d Stephan Schott, a professor in natural resource management at Carleton University, shares as an example.<\/p>\n<p>Food security of these communities becomes more difficult to sustain as they cannot rely on food resources along their paths like in previous years, he says. But human-caused climate change does not happen in a vacuum. Booming Arctic tourism, increased S\u00e1mi land use, and overfishing disrupt further Arctic food systems. It also threatens the passing of culture onto younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, the world\u2019s top climate scientists, under the IPCC, named protecting grazing land as the most important adaptive strategy for reindeer herders. But S\u00e1mi communities\u2019 pastures in Northern Europe are seized as rare minerals are abundant and the construction of mines to extract them can help fasten the green transition. Renewable energy parks have been built on S\u00e1mi land in Norway and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside all this, Schott believes some communities are losing the ability and knowledge to slaughter, hunt, butcher, gather, and conserve food in traditional ways. \u201cAs S\u00e1mi youth, it\u2019s hard to preserve some traditions also due to exploitation of resources like salmon,\u201d says Julius Mihkkal Lindi, a young S\u00e1mi working in the Arctic and Environmental Unit of the Saami Council. He remembers the first salmon he caught, but nowadays wild salmon fishing is off-limits for Indigenous communities in Canada, Norway and Alaska as the government ban is intended to replenish fish stocks.<\/p>\n<p>What can food diplomacy do for Indigenous communities? Food security is essential for the survival of these communities &#8211; and the right to food sovereignty is a recent innovation in international law, with the United Nations\u2019 recognition and adoption in 2018. Convincing policymakers to protect Indigenous people\u2019s culture and environment had to be done in a particular way and this is why reindeer herders adopted food diplomacy strategies:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you work with food, you work with all the things that are critical for us as Indigenous peoples. It&#8217;s about both physical and mental health and animal welfare. It&#8217;s about our economy, our security, identity and language,\u201d says Anders Oskal, executive director of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICRH). The Arctic Council is the only political organisation that has permanent Indigenous people representatives.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/14\/heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/14\/heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/heres-how-europes-indigenous-peoples-are-using-food-diplomacy-to-save-the-arctic\/\">Here\u2019s how Europe\u2019s Indigenous peoples are using food diplomacy to save the Arctic<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1682,575,696,4816],"class_list":["post-132355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arctic","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-europe","tag-indigenous-peoples"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}