背景:社区食品计划(CFP),包括汤厨房和食物银行,是加拿大北极地区较大定居点的最新发展。我们对利用这些计划的理解是有限的,因为食物系统研究尚未研究使用CFP的边缘化和暂住人群,限制了一些最脆弱的社区成员的服务计划。本文报告了在Iqaluit与CFPs用户进行的基线研究,努纳武特,确定和描述利用情况,并记录他们的粮食安全经验。
方法:对食物银行的用户进行了开放式访谈和人口普查的固定选择调查(n=94),汤厨房,和友谊中心在一个月的时间里,还有关键线人采访。
结果:CFP的用户更有可能是因纽特人,失业,与一般伊卡卢伊特人相比,还没有完成高中学业,同时也报告了对社会援助的高度依赖,家庭收入低,家里没有猎人.大多数人报告使用CFP超过一年,并定期使用。
结论:必须在社会经济变革的背景下理解使用者无法获得足够的食物,这些社会经济变革在过去的半个世纪中影响了因纽特人社会,因为前半游牧狩猎群体被重新安置到永久定居点。由此产生的生计变化深刻地影响了粮食的生产方式,已处理,分布式,和消费,以及围绕此类活动的社会文化关系。后果包括物质资源对获取粮食的重要性日益提高,削弱了传统上支持更多弱势社区成员的社会安全机制,和适应压力。应对这些更广泛的挑战对于粮食政策至关重要,然而,CFP在为那些原本食物有限的人提供食物方面也发挥着至关重要的作用。
BACKGROUND: Community food programs (CFPs), including soup kitchens and food banks, are a recent development in larger settlements in the Canadian Arctic. Our understanding of utilization of these programs is limited as food systems research has not studied the marginalised and transient populations using CFPs, constraining service planning for some of the most vulnerable community members. This paper
reports on a baseline study conducted with users of CFPs in Iqaluit, Nunavut, to identify and characterize utilization and document their food security experience.
METHODS: Open ended interviews and a fixed-choice survey on a census (n = 94) were conducted with of users of the food bank, soup kitchen, and friendship centre over a 1 month period, along with key informant interviews.
RESULTS: Users of CFPs are more likely to be
Inuit, be unemployed, and have not completed high school compared to the general Iqaluit population, while also reporting high dependence on social assistance, low household income, and an absence of hunters in the household. The majority report using CFPs for over a year and on a regular basis.
CONCLUSIONS: The inability of users to obtain sufficient food must be understood in the context of socio-economic transformations that have affected
Inuit society over the last half century as former semi-nomadic hunting groups were resettled into permanent settlements. The resulting livelihood changes profoundly affected how food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed, and the socio-cultural relationships surrounding such activities. Consequences have included the rising importance of material resources for food access, the weakening of social safety mechanisms through which more vulnerable community members would have traditionally been supported, and acculturative stress. Addressing these broader challenges is essential for food policy, yet CFPs also have an essential role in providing for those who would otherwise have limited food access.