"Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North"
Time
9:00 –
10:30
am
Sun.
Sept. 29
Mon.
Sept. 30
Tue.
Oct. 1
Wed.
Oct. 2
Thurs.
Oct. 3
SUMMIT OPENING
and Welcoming Remarks
Circumpolar Agriculture Association
(Dr. Milan Shipka-U.S.A., President)
and Northern Food Security Thematic
Network, University of the Arctic,
(Dr. Karen Tanino-Canada, Lead)
FOOD PRODUCTION and
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
- Policy barriers and
Success Stories
FOOD PRODUCTION and
ACCESS-Animals
PANEL
DISCUSSION
4 Conference Delegate
Speakers
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES IN
ADVANCING
FOOD SECURITY
IN THE
CIRCUMPOLAR
WORLD
University of the Arctic
(Dr. Lars Kullerud, President, Norway)
Arctic Council
Leona Aglukkaq, chair
Minister of Health (Canada),
MP Nunavut
(tentative)
The Natural Resources Challenge.
Cooperative Research Program,
Scientific Advisory Board, OECD
(Prof. John Sadler-U.S.A. or
Dr. Leena Finer-Finland)
………………………………………….
Food Production by
Indigenous People,
Challenges and Success
Stories.
-Prof. Tom Allen, Canada
(CIBC Chair
Entrepreneurship, Canada)
Ten Years of Creating
Partnerships in Community
Food Security and
Northern Rural
Development.
-Kreesta Doucette, Canada
(Founding Executive
Director, Food Matters
Manitoba)
GLOBAL POLICY AND GEOPOLITICS
Key policy issues for advancing
Food Security in the North
- Mr. Steffen Weber, Germany
(Secretary-General of the EU Arctic Forum
and Chief Adviser on the Arctic region)
Redefined Northern Security - a challenge
to Arctic Geopolitics?
- Dr. Lassi Heininen, Finland
+ 2 conference delegate
speakers
Northern Small Livestock
Production Round Table
Norway, Finland,
Russia, U.S.A.,
Canada and Japan
Panel delegates will
each talk for 10
minutes and remain
on stage for the
general discussion.
"Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North"
(Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead,
Geopolitics and Security)
+ 1 conference delegate speaker
10:30–
11:00
am
Break
Break
Break
Break
11:00
am –
12:30
pm
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
—Policy Barriers
FOOD PRODUCTION and
ACCESS--Plants
West Iceland Regional Development
experience: Arctic-ecosystem approaches.
- Dr. Torfi Johannesson, Iceland
(V.P. Circumpolar Agriculture Association,
Iceland representative)
The Keewatin Gardens and
Green Igloos---the
Production of Horticulture
Crops in the High Arctic
- Prof. Josef Svoboda
(Professor Emeritus, Univ. of
Toronto, Canada.
Over 40 years experience in
the Arctic)
FOOD ACCESS and
LAND USE PLANNING
- Policy barriers and
Success Stories
GO FORWARD
PLAN RESULTS,
DISCUSSION and
FINALIZATION
Land use Planning and
Management of traditional
First Nations
food resources.
- Dr. Randy Lewis,
Canada
(VP Circumpolar Agriculture
Association (CAA),
Canadian representative and
Founding Member, CAA)
Identifying 5 key
policy barriers and the
path forward
Food safety in the arctic and human health:
Contaminant exposure by dietary intake
- Prof. Arja Rautio, Finland
(Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead, Arctic
Health)
Putting Sustainable Development into
longterm action--educational approaches
(tentative)
- Olga Alekseevich, Russia
(Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead,
Environmental Training and Education for
Sustainable Development of the Arctic,
Syktykvar State University, Russia)
Northern
Greenhouses/High
Tunnels—round table
+ 3 conference delegate
speakers
+ 3 conference delegate
speakers
"Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North"
12:30 –
2:00
pm
Lunch
Lunch
POSTER VIEWING
TOUR + lunch
Lunch
CLOSING
REMARKS
2:00 –
3:30
pm
3:30 –
4:00
pm
4:00 –
5:30
pm
-
THE BUSINESS CASE
Policy barriers and Success Stories
TOUR
Developing sustainable small businesses in
the North: The case of Northern food
producers and distributors.
- Prof. Svein Johansen, Norway
(Univ. Arctic Thematic Network Lead,
Managing Small and Medium Sized
Enterprises in the North)
+ 2 conference delegate speakers
Break
THE BUSINESS CASE continued
- Policy barriers and Success Stories
Food Flour Formulation From Waste of
Fisheries—additives for animal nutrition
(tentative)
- Dr. Svetlana Safonova, Russia
(Head of small innovation enterprise at the
Arctic Innovation Center of the
North-Eastern Federal University)
and
- Dr. Yana Okhrimenko, Russia
(Research Scientist,
Arctic Innovation Center)
GO FORWARD PLAN
DISCUSSION
Identifying 5 key policy
barriers and the path
forward
(Facilitated Break Out
Sessions)
TOUR
Break
TOUR
Northern Small Farm
Vegetable and Fruit
Production Round Table
(4:00 – 6:00 pm)
"Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North"
+ 2 conference delegate speakers
5:30
pm --
RECEPTION
and
REGISTRATION
POSTER SESSION
BANQUET
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