Economic aspects of food and nutrition security in the territories of the Russian Arctic

In the Arctic, the issue of food and nutrition security (FNS) brings together concerns over a range of environmental, economic, social, and cultural changes. The complexity of the interrelationships emerges with a growing scale of economic activity, strengthening of human pressure on the environment, progressing climate change, and transforming food consumption patterns. In the case of Russia’s Arctic territories, the paper aims to conceptualize an approach to assessing the FNS with the differentiation of economic factors influencing food security of people living in various environments and consuming various types of food. In the period of 1996-2016, the study has identified favorable and negative FNS-health economic interrelationships separately for eight territories of the Russian Arctic zone. Based on the revealed correlations, the per pillar policy interventions have been proposed to ensure food security and promote the positive factors and diminish the adverse impacts of the negative ones on selected health parameters.