Social Consequences of Covid-19 and Climate Change on Indigenous Food Security and Food Sovereignty: Stories of lived experiences in salmon country

The purpose of this publication is to bring forth stories from a sample of diverse Indigenous communities regarding the unintended social consequences of the pandemic and climate change crises. During our journey together, we will be learning from three storytellers, each from a different region and level of urbanization in British Columbia. We’ve considered urbanization in our methodology due to the exorbitant prices of basic market foods in the rural and remote areas that most First Nations communities in British Columbia are situated on as a consequence of the reserve system. This, paired with the difficulties Indigenous people face accessing traditional foods in high-density urban areas, makes urbanization a measurable food security and food sovereignty metric.