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The Northwest Territories node was led by Andrew Spring, Associate Director of the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Associate Director of Research for the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies.

Research interests in the Northwest Territories Node included:

  • First Nations’ community well-being at the intersection of country food access, traditional livelihoods, climate change, and development pressures
  • Knowledge sharing and exchange between youth, elders, and researchers via on-the-land camps
  • Municipal food policy and the development of the Yellowknife Food Charter
  • The role and practices of food growing in Indigenous food sovereignty
  • Farmers’ market program evaluation and impact assessment
  • Working with First Nations communities via Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies
The Northwest Territories Node publications:
Baltzer, J., Cumming, S., Johnstone, J., McIntire, E., Schmiegelow, F., & Spring, A. (2016). Impacts of wildfire extent and severity on caribou habitat: from woodland to barren ground [Invited presentation]. Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program: Dehcho Regional Results Workshop, Fort Simpson, NT. Cite
Bayha, M., & Spring, A. (2020). Response to COVID in Délįnę, NT: Reconnecting with our community, our culture and our past after the pandemic. Agriculture and Human Values, 37(3), 597–598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10059-z Cite Download
Beers, R. (2019, October 20). How Kakisa, N.W.T., is looking to Brazil for inspiration on how to grow food. CBC North. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/kakisa-to-brazil-1.5326200 Cite
Blay-Palmer, A., Spring, A., Nimmo, E., & Lacerda, A. (2020). Alternative food networks: Traditional food and the right to adequate food. In J. Duncan, M. Carolan, & J. S. C. Wiskerke (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466823 Cite Download
Blay-Palmer, A., Goupil, S., Vasseur, L., Lacerda, A., Nimmo, E., & Spring, A. (2020, June 5). Connexions: Sustainable food, ecosystems and biodiversity [Online]. UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies Webinar Series. Cite
Blay-Palmer, A., Spring, A., Nelson, E., & Valette, E. (2021, September). Food Systems—Beyond the Buzz. Rural 21, 56(3), 7–9. https://www.rural21.com/fileadmin/downloads/2021/en-03/rural2021_03-S07-09.pdf Cite Download
Bowling, E. (2019, October 10). Climate change fuels food security concerns. NNSL Media. https://www.nnsl.com/yellowknifer/climate-change-fuels-food-security-concerns/ Cite
Bysouth, D. (2019, September). Agricultural cultivation on northern soils: Assessing landscape suitability under a changing climate and impact to soil carbon cycling. Laurier Centre of Sustainable Food Systems & Food: Locally Embedded Globally Engaged Partnership Second Annual Student Symposium, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Bysouth, D. (2020, November 18). Agriculture in the boreal forest: Understanding the impact of land use change on soil carbon for developing sustainable community food systems [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium. Cite
Di Battista, A., & Young, L. (n.d.). “We walk in the footsteps of our ancestors”: Traditional Knowledge, Youth Engagement, and Resilience in Délįnę (Season 2 Episode 3). https://handpickedpodcast.libsyn.com/ Cite Download
Di Battista, A., & Young, L. (n.d.). “We know how to survive on the land”: Climate change adaptation, food system and life in Kakisa, Northwest Territories (Season 1 Episode 4). https://handpickedpodcast.libsyn.com/ Cite
Dimock, C., Skinner, K., Ratelle, M., Andrew, L., Baltzer, J., Spring, A., Simmons, D., & Scully, L. (2020). Report for the water knowledge camp held at Sahtú Dǝ́ (Great Bear River) at Tek’áı́cho Dǝ́ (Marten River) Tulı́t’a, NT. August 19th-26th, 2019. Water Knowledge Camps: Building Capacity for Cross-Cultural Water Knowledge, Research, and Environmental Monitoring. (p. 53). Sahtú Renewable Resources Board. Cite
Forcese, S. (2020, June 1). Laurier researchers partner with northern community to achieve food sovereignty in climate change adaptation. Water Today. https://www.watertoday.ca/ts-climate-change-reconciliation-in-action-laurier-researchers-partner-with-northern-community-to-achieve-food-sovereignty.asp Cite
Gibson, C., Turetsky, M., Brinkman, T., Spring, A., & Baltzer, J. (2019, December 9). Causes of lowland thermokarst formation and its impacts on carbon cycling and provisioning of ecosystem services. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Cite
Gillis, M., & Mathieu, K. (2020, November 18). Having a loud voice: Engaging with researchers to improve food security in Inuvialuit Settlement Region [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Gyapay, J. (2020, November 18). Exploring the development and dissemination of health messaging for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Johnson, C. (2017, September 7). Yellowknife Food Charter. FLEdGE: Food, Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged Research Meeting, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Johnston, C. (2020, November 18). Mapping global goverance in the NWT and the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Johnston, C., & Andrée, P. (2019). Pathways to co-governance? The role of NGOs in food governance in the Northwest Territories, Canada. In P. Andrée, J. K. Clark, C. Z. Levkoe, & K. Lowitt (Eds.), Civil society and social movements in food system governance (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429503597 Cite Download
Johnston, C., & Spring, A. (2021). Grassroots and global governance: Can global–local linkages foster food system resilience for small northern Canadian communities? Sustainability, 13(4), 2415. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042415 Cite Download
Judge, C. (2019, September). Evaluation of a mobile food processing facility and traditional food processing training in Délįnę, NWT. Laurier Centre of Sustainable Food Systems & Food: Locally Embedded Globally Engaged Partnership Second Annual Student Symposium, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Judge, C., Reniker, L., Skinner, K., & Spring, A. (2019, December 2). Country food processing training: An on-site initiative in two regions in the Northwest Territories. ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cite
Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, & Wilfrid Laurier University. (n.d.). Ka’a’gee Tu Atlas. Retrieved November 6, 2020, from https://kaageetuatlas.wordpress.com/ Cite
Kok, K. (2017, September 7). Fisheries, fish, and lake health in the Northwest Territories. FLEdGE: Food, Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged Meeting, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Lemay, M. A., Radcliffe, J., Bysouth, D., & Spring, A. (2021). Northern Food Systems in Transition: The Role of the Emerging Agri-Food Industry in the Northwest Territories (Canada) Food System. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.661538 Cite Download
Livingstone, D., Bayha, G., & Spring, A. (2019, May 14). Implementation of an environmental monitoring program in the UNESCO Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve. Global Water Futures 2nd Annual Open Science Meeting, TCU Place, Saskatoon, SK. Cite
Lowitt, K., Levkoe, C. Z., Spring, A., Turlo, C., Williams, P. L., Bird, S., Sayers, C. D., & Simba, M. (2020). Empowering small-scale, community-based fisheries through a food systems framework. Marine Policy, 120, 104150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104150 Cite Download
Lowitt, K., Levkoe, C., Pictou, S., Spring, A., Turlo, C., Williams, P., & Sayers, D. (2018, May 28). “Fish as food”: Food systems as an organizing concept for local community sustainability and fisheries policy. Communities, Conservation & Livelihoods Conference, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cite
MacLeod Farley, N. (2019, August 2). Supporting Community-Led Research in Délįnę. FLEdGE Research Blog. https://fledgeresearch.ca/2019/08/02/supporting-community-led-research-in-deline/ Cite
MacLeod Farley, N. (2019, September). Supporting community based research in Délįnę. Laurier Centre of Sustainable Food Systems & Food: Locally Embedded Globally Engaged Partnership Second Annual Student Symposium, Waterloo, ON. Cite
MacLeod Farley, N. (2020, November 18). Exploring counter-narratives in northern food systems research [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Malanda, M. (2019, September). Community gardening & Indigenous food sovereignty in Kakisa, NWT. Laurier Centre of Sustainable Food Systems & Food: Locally Embedded Globally Engaged Partnership Second Annual Student Symposium, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Matthews, D. (2019). Community voices on climate change and health adaptation in Northern Canada: Summary Report of Indigenous Services Canada’s Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program for Northern First Nations and Inuit Communities. Indigenous Services Canada. http://www.climatetelling.info/uploads/2/5/6/1/25611440/19-012-climate-change-c2-ang.pdf Cite Download
Mercer, G. (2018, May 18). Laurier researchers search for solutions as warming climate changes the North. The Waterloo Record. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2018/05/18/laurier-researchers-search-for-solutions-as-warming-climate-changes-the-north.html Cite
KM webinar 4: Research with Indigenous communities part I. (2019, February 22). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tej7EkJD7jk Cite
Radcliffe, J. (2020, November 18). Connections at the Yellowknife Farmers’ Market [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Radcliffe, J., Skinner, K., Spring, A., Picard, L., Benoit, F., & Dodd, W. (2021). Virtual barriers: Unpacking the sustainability implications of online food spaces and the Yellowknife Farmers Market’s response to COVID-19. Nutrition Journal, 20(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00664-x Cite Download
Reid, A., Lane, J.-F., Woodworth, S., Spring, A., Garner, R., & Tanche, K. (2020). Leading on-the-land science camps with Indigenous youth: Towards reciprocity in research. The Solutions Journal, 11(1). https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/leading-land-science-camps-indigenous-youth-towards-reciprocity-research/ Cite
Simba, M., & Spring, A. (2017, September 7). Kakisa food growing projects. FLEdGE: Food, Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged Research Meeting, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Simba, M., & Spring, A. (2018). Growing a garden in Kakisa. Northern Public Affairs Magazine, 5(1). https://www.northernpublicaffairs.ca/index/volume-5-issue-1/growing-a-garden-in-kakisa/ Cite Download
Snider, E. (2019, September). Northern agriculture futures: Summer 2019. Laurier Centre of Sustainable Food Systems & Food: Locally Embedded Globally Engaged Partnership Second Annual Student Symposium, Waterloo, ON. Cite
Snider, E. (2020, November 18). Building community research capacity for food systems projects in Kakisa, NT [Online]. FLEdGE Student Symposium 2020. Cite
Snider, E., Spring, A., Lemay, M., Bysouth, D., Judge, C., Skinner, K., & Turetsky, M. (2020, December 7). Cultivation and contemplation: Opportunities and challenges to growing food in the NWT [Virtual Conference]. ArcticChange 2020. Cite
Spring, A. (2016, October 22). Recycling in the NWT [Interview on The Trailbreaker, CBC North]. Cite
Spring, A. (2016, March 17). Climate commons roundtable: Food politics [Invited panelist]. Cite
Spring, A. (2017, May 27). Social justice approaches to research methods [Invited panelist]. Canadian Association of Food Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. Cite
Spring, A. (2017, May 27). Subversions from the informal and social economy: Relocating social and ecological values in food systems roundtable. Canadian Association of Food Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. Cite
Spring, A. (2018, January 23). Capitals, climate change and food security: Building sustainable food systems in northern Canadian Indigenous communities [Doctoral dissertation defense]. Cite
Spring, A. (2019, June 3). Northern agriculture futures: Grassroots approaches to developing agriculture policy in the NWT. Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Cite
Spring, A. (2019, October). Food systems in Canada’s Northwest Territories. XXV IUFRO World Congress, Curitiba, Brazil. Cite