Enhancing food sovereignty and security for Indigenous communities – ENC

August 6, 2024

Marine foods have been harvested by Indigenous communities since time immemorial, but climate change and other environmental impacts are putting the safety of food sources at risk.

A collaboration between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA’s) Burnaby Laboratory, Vancouver Island University (VIU) and Indigenous communities aims to increase food security and sovereignty.

“In the search for safe and sustainable food sources in changing ocean environments, there will always be more questions to be answered than there are fish in the sea,” said Carolyn Bateman, Director of the CFIA’s Burnaby Laboratory. “It’s only by pooling our expertise and helping each other with the science that we can answer some of these questions together.”

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