Arctic Foods Innovation Cluster: Fostering Innovation in Arctic Food Industries
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Issue Date
2025-05-12
Authors
Sustainable Development Working Group
Subject
Abstract
The Arctic’s commercial food system is challenged by a host of social, economic, logistical, and political obstacles. Some of these constraints include the high cost of food production inputs, limited infrastructure (e.g., road networks, ports), absence of supportive legislative, cultural tensions associated with commodifying traditional Indigenous foods, limited innovation and an over-reliance of raw export.
Based on the findings of The Arctic as a Food Producing Region, this report examines whether a cluster-based approach to food innovation and food security might be an effective strategy to overcome these challenges. An Arctic Food Innovation Cluster (AFIC) could draw together Arctic/northern food producers with governments, Indigenous communities, colleges/universities, research centers, vocational training providers, and industry associations and young people to identify ways to increase production and added value of foods originating in the Arctic.