Call for Papers: Food Security Challenges in the Arctic

Food Security Challenges in the Arctic

Submission date: October 15, 2026

Maximum number to words, including notes and bibliography: 8.500

Language: French or English. You also have the option of publishing bilingual or trilingual articles, including in the various dialects of Inuktitut, with translations at the authors’ expense.

Desired format: articles, research notes, essays, literature review, interviews, life stories.

 

Manuscripts submission: https://revues.ulaval.ca/ojs/index.php/etudes-inuit-studies/about/submissions

 

Guest Editors: Lucie Beaulieu (Université Laval), Jean-Sébastien Moore (Université Laval) and Matthew Little (University of Victoria)

 

Special issue description:

For generations, Inuit have relied on their Traditional Knowledge to ensure a healthy and sustainable diet, essential to their culture, health, and well-being. Hunting, fishing, and gathering, deeply rooted in their way of life, rely on respectful management of natural resources and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge.

Today, food security in the Arctic faces growing challenges. These issues include the environmental impacts of climate change, such as permafrost degradation, habitat modification, and increased pollution, which disrupt ecosystems and traditional food practices. Added to this are socioeconomic factors such as geographic isolation, poverty, the high cost of imported foods from the South, and population growth. These disruptions have significant repercussions on physical and mental health, particularly for populations deeply attached to their local foods, culinary preferences, and cultural identity.

To address these challenges, a transdisciplinary approach is necessary. It must integrate Indigenous knowledge, promote ancestral hunting, fishing, harvesting, and agricultural practices adapted to the territory, and recognize the cultural and spiritual connections between Inuit, their food, and their environment.

In this context, this special issue aims to explore the challenges of food security in Arctic regions, integrating Inuit and non-Inuit perspectives. It draws on a variety of disciplines—food and nutrition, resource management, environment, biology, public health, economics, sociology, and anthropology—to better understand local realities and propose participatory research and co-constructed, respectful, and sustainable courses of action.

 

Contact:

For further information on this special issue, please contact Lucie Beaulieu (lucie.beaulieu@fsaa.ulaval.ca), Jean-Sébastien Moore (jean-sebastien.moore@bio.ulaval.ca) or Matthew Little (matthewlittle@uvic.ca).

For more information about article format and the submission process, please contact Aurélie Maire, editor-in-chief of the journal (Revue.etudes.inuit@ciera.ulaval.ca).