PROGRAM
8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference
University of the Arctic Inaugural Food Summit
Alyeska Resort Hotel
Girdwood, Alaska
September 29 – October 3, 2013
Sunday September 29
Settle into your accommodations and explore the Resort and spectacular surroundings.
6:00 – 8:00 pm
REGISTRATION (Alyeska Resort Hotel Lobby)
Please bring your posters to the Registration and Information Desk in the Alyeska Hotel Lobby.
We will be hanging all posters. You may drop off your presentations if you are using Power
Point at the Registration and Information Desk. Steve Peterson, one of your hosts and our IT
representative, will load them onto the Conference and Summit computers.
Monday September 30
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK OPEN (Foyer)
Please bring your posters to the Registration and Information Desk in the Columbia Foyer. We
will be hanging all posters. Please drop off your presentations if you are using Power Point to
Steve Peterson in the Bering Room. He will load them onto the conference and summit
computers.
7:00 – 8:30 am
BREAKFAST (Columbia and Foyer)
Conference Moderator: Carol E. Lewis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
8:30 - 9:50
WELCOME (Columbia)
8:50 - 9:10
Chancellor Brian Rogers, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Chair of the UArctic Board of Governors
9:10 - 9:30
Franci Havemeister, Director, Division of Agriculture, Department of
Natural Resources, State of Alaska
9:30 - 9:50
Bill Erasmus, National Chief of the Dené Nation
9:50 - 10:10
John Sadler, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), Theme Coordinator, The Natural Resources Challenge,
Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems,
Cooperative Research Program
10:10 - 10:20
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
“GLOBAL FOOD POLICY AND FOOD SAFETY ISSUES”
David Bubenheim, NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffit Field, CA - Session Moderator
Invited Keynote Talks (Columbia)
10:20 - 10:50
“Redefined Northern Security - a challenge to Arctic Geopolitics?”
Lassi Heininen, Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead, Geopolitics, Finland
10:50 – 11:20
“Cross-Border Dimensions of Vuntut Gwich’in Food Security”
David Natcher, Director, Indigenous Land Management Institute,
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
11:20 – 11:50
“Indigenous Community Food Security in the Yukon Territory”
Norma Kassi, Director Indigenous Collaboration Arctic Institute of
Community Based Research, Yukon, Canada
11:50 – 12:20 pm
“Food safety in the arctic and human health: Contaminant exposure
by dietary intake”
Arja Rautio, Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead, Arctic Health, Finland
12:20 – 12:40
PANEL DISCUSSION: Global Food Policy and Food Safety Issues
Panel members: Lassi Heininen, David Natcher, Norma Kassi, Arja
Rautio
Panel Moderator: David Bubenheim
12:40 – 2:00
LUNCH (Kahiltna Court)
"Alaska Flour Company: Farm to Fork"
Bryce Wrigley, Owner, Alaska Flour Company, Delta, Alaska
FOOD PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Karen Tanino, University of the Arctic and University of Saskatchewan - Session Moderator
Invited Keynote Talks (Columbia)
2:00 – 2:30
“Developing Sustainable Small Businesses in the North: The Case of
Northern Food Producers and Distributors”
Svein Johansen, Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead, Managing Small
and Medium Sized Enterprises in the North, Norway
2:30 – 3:00
"The Bioeconomy of the Arctic"
Torfi Jóhannesson, V.P. Circumpolar Agriculture Association, Iceland
representative
3:00 - 3:30
"The Land Grant University System in the U.S.: It's role in agricultural
development in the arctic and subarctic"
Carol E. Lewis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
3:30 – 4:00
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
Invited Abstracts (Columbia)
4:00 – 4:20
“Yukon Agricultural Association – Initiatives and Projects”
Sylvia Gibson* and Kirsten Scott, Yukon Agricultural Association
Yellowknife Commons Co-operative Ltd.
4:20 - 4:40
“Stimulating Yellowknife’s local food economy and
Success stories of local agri-food skills activities in the Northwest
Territories Canada”
Amy Lizotte and Lone Sorensen*
Yellowknife Commons Cooperative, Yellowknife Garden Collective,
Ecology North and Territorial Farmers Association
4:40 – 5:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: Food Production And Economic Development
Panel members: Svein Johansen, Torfi Jóhannesson, Carol Lewis, Sylvia
Gibson, Lone Sorensen
Panel Moderator: Karen Tanino
5:00 – 6:30
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Columbia and Foyer)
6:30 – 8:30
RECEPTION (Kahiltna Court)
Dress is business casual
Tuesday October 1
7:00 – 8:30 am
BREAKFAST (Columbia and Foyer)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK (Columbia Foyer)
Conference Moderator, Carol E. Lewis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
FOOD PRODUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
Session I - Horticulture
Julie Riley, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Moderator
Invited Keynote Talks (Columbia)
8:30 - 9:00
“Experimental horticultural projects in the Canadian Mid- and High
Arctic in the early 1980’s: Lessons Learned”
Josef Svoboda, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
9:00 – 9:30
“Costs and Benefits of a Northern Greenhouse”
Tom Allen, Professor
Dept. Bioresources Policy, Business and Economics,
University of Saskatchewan
Invited Abstracts (Columbia)
9:30 - 9:50
“Alternative soil nutrient sources: meeting the needs of rural Alaskan
growers”
Lydia Clayton*, Janice Chumley, Pam Compton, Meg Mueller
University of Alaska Fairbanks-Cooperative Extension Service; USDANatural Resource Conservation Service
9:50 – 10:10
“Agricultural Production of Biomass as Energy Crops in Alaska: Is It
Feasible?”
Stephen D. Sparrow, Amanda Byrd*, Darleen Masiak, Mingchu Zhang,
Robert Van Veldhuizen, William E. Schnabel
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and Alaska Center for
Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks
10:10 – 10:40
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
Invited Keynote Talk (Columbia)
10:40 – 11:10
“Ten Years of Creating Partnerships towards Community Food Security
and Northern Rural Development in Manitoba”
Kreesta Doucette, Founding Director, Food Matters Manitoba
Invited Abstracts (Columbia)
11:10 – 11:30
“The Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project: Sustainable Community
Development through Food Production”
Ellen Avard (PhD Candidate)
Université Laval, Département de Géographie, Quebec
11:30 – 11:50
“Bilberry – wild superberry from Europe”
Laura Jaakola*, Eivind Uleberg, Inger Martinussen
Climate laboratory, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University
of Tromsø, Norway
11:50 – 12:10
“Antioxidant Levels in Alaska Berry Products”
Julie Cascio*, Roxie Dinstel
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Cooperative Extension Service
12:10 – 12:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: Food Production and Sustainable Practices Session I - Horticulture
Panel members: Josef Svoboda, Tom Allen, Lydia Clayton, Amanda
Byrd, Kreesta Doucette, Ellen Avard, Laura Jaakola, Julie Cascio
Panel Moderator: Julie Riley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
12:30 – 2:00
LUNCH (Kahiltna Court)
2:30 – 5:00
Tour - Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center
Meet in the Hotel Alyeska Lobby
Dinner On Your Own
Wednesday October 2
7:00 – 8:30 am
BREAKFAST (Columbia and Foyer)
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK OPEN
FOOD PRODUCTION and SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
– Session II Livestock Production
Milan Shipka, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Session Moderator
Invited Keynote Talks (Columbia)
8:30 – 9:00
“Sustainable Livestock Production Systems in Alaska: production
practices and marketing”
Milan Shipka* and Jan Rowell, University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:00 – 9:30
“Animal Health Issues for Alaska Agriculture”
John Blake, University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:30 – 10:00
"One Health” Perspectives on Environmental Contaminants in
Subsistence Foods of Alaska”
Todd O'Hara, University of Alaska Fairbanks
10:00 – 10:30
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
Invited Abstracts (Columbia)
10:30 – 10:50
“Losses of sheep on summer range in Norway”
Inger Hansen* and Rolf Rødven. Bioforsk Nord, Norway
10:50 – 11:10
“Small Scale Poultry Production Education in Alaska”
Stephen C. Brown. University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension
Service
11:10 – 11:30
“Building Educational Programs to Promote Food Security for
Indigenous Populations in the Americas”
Diane Holland Rickerl, South Dakota State University
11:30 – 11:50
PANEL DISCUSSION: Food Production and Sustainable Practices –
Session II Livestock Production.
Panel members: Jan Rowell, John Blake, Todd O'Hara, Inger Hansen,
Stephen C. Brown, Diane Holland Rickerl
Panel Moderator: Milan Shipka
11:50 – 1:00 pm
LUNCH (Kahiltna Court)
1:00 – 2:30
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (Columbia and Foyer)
2:30 - 3:00
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
3:00 – 4:30
BREAKOUT SESSION: All attendees
Session Moderator: Karen Tanino, University of Saskatchewan and
University of the Arctic
4:30 - 6:00
Meeting of interested persons to elect CAA president and to discuss
combination of goals/interests of the Circumpolar Agricultural
Association and the University of the Arctic Northern Food Security
Thematic Network.
6:30 -
BANQUET (Kahlitna Court)
Dress is business casual
Thursday October 3
7:00 – 8:30 am
BREAKFAST
8:30 – 10:30
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN ADVANCING FOOD SECURITY
IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR WORLD—Conference Summary
and Discussion
Opening Remarks:
Matsu Uemura, Dean, the United Graduate School of Agricultural
Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
Berndt Skarstad, Leader, Northern Norwegian Council of Agriculture
PANEL DISCUSSION
Representatives from Norway, Finland, United States, Canada, and
Japan.
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK (Columbia Foyer)
11:00 – 11:30
GO FORWARD PLAN
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11:30 am -
Results of Wednesday "Break Out Session"
Publication of proceedings detailing the Conference and Summit
University of the Arctic and Circumpolar Agriculture Association
meeting outcomes
FINAL WORDS AND CLOSING (conference co-chairs)