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Food sovereignty project in Taloyoak, NU nabs $500,000 prize


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TALOYOAK, NU, Feb. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On the coast of Aviqtuuq, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak is home to 1,100 residents and one $500,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their food sovereignty project. WWF-Canada is proud to have helped support the community in developing this prize-winning proposal as well as other ongoing environmental initiatives.
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, which means our food in Inuktitut, was the winning submission from Taloyoak s Spence Bay Hunter & Trapper Association (the community was formerly called Spence Bay) and seeks to create a country-food economy in the most northern community on Canada s mainland.
Country food is the term for what s caught locally as opposed to expensive store food flown up from the south, but it is becoming increasingly inaccessible due to poverty, climate change and cultural loss. ....

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