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Food and Nutrition Security as a Measure of Resilience in the Barents Region
No full textFood and nutrition security builds resilience in a society when people have access to safe and nutritious foods. The Barents region, covering the Northern parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the North-western part of Russia, seeks common goals that include the well-being of the region’s inhabitants by ensuring preservation of local culture and social and environmental sustainability. This paper reviews existing literature on food and nutrition security in relation to building resilience and promoting well-being in the region. Amongst the local communities, traditional foods have served as a major source of healthy diet that ensures food security. Access to secure, nutritious, and healthy food is one of the aspects offering greater human security and societal stability. Traditional food has served as a major source of healthy diet, in particular, in the remote sparsely populated Barents region and amongst the local communities of the region. However, there is concern about global climate change and its effect on the region and pollution from human activities, such as the extractive industrial activities, that are detrimental to safe and secure food supply chain. In this paper, I highlight the contribution of traditional foods to food security in the Barents region. In addition, the paper emphasized that value addition to these traditional foods will help to stimulate the economy by creating new jobs. Ultimately, ensuring food and nutrition security in a sustainable way within the region will help to build resilience and promote culture and ecology with a view to offering greater human and societal security
Digitalisation in a local food system:Emphasis on Finnish Lapland
Full text linkThe positive adoption of digital technology within the food sector can boost sustainable development in Finnish Lapland. There is a need for the food system in the region to respond to current trends from consumers and ensure a better supply of local foods that are processed efficiently with minimal waste. In this article, a review of the literature on the benefits of digitalisation as a tool amongst food processors was carried out. The opportunities offered by digital technology are expected to make local food business operators more efficient, sustainable and transparent. Digitalisation can help to minimize the environmental impacts of food processing, and ultimately improve sustainability. In meeting the demand of local consumers, distributed and localized manufacturing are likely to make a difference. The adoption of food digitalisation will open up market accessibility for the locally produced food products in local communities. In the future, digitalisation are likely to have major impacts in the local food system of Lapland region
Transfer of technology from north to south -meeting the needs of a rural environment: a review of the Mtwara-Lindi water project
No full textLaw in the digital era : perspectives from IP law, contract law & IT law
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Transfer of technology from north to south - meeting the needs of a rural environment:: a review of Mtwara-Lindi water Project
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