Marie Pierre interviewed by the International Polar Foundation

Read the full interview on SciencePoles, the scientific website of the International Polar Foundation.

Food security (when food is available, accessible and of sufficient quality) is a major issue for the Inuit of northern Canada. Climate change is making it increasingly more difficult for hunters to access traditional hunting routes and changing animals’ natural distribution areas. On top of this, traditional hunting knowledge is not being passed from one generation to the next as easily as it used to, and the cost of living in the Canadian Arctic is exorbitant.

In the following interview, Marie-Pierre Lardeau of McGill University in Montréal discusses food security issues Inuit in many parts of Canada are facing as well as some of the projects she and her colleagues including are working on with Dr James Ford to document the current situation.