IHACC is Collaborating With New Partners In Peru!

Maricielo, Marjorie, and Gianellia practicing with the camera equipment

The Ashaninka Indigenous Amazonian Women Organization of the Central Rainforest in Peru (OMIAASEC) has begun collaborating with IHACC PhD student Ingrid Arotoma-Rojas to co-develop research in the Peruvian Amazon.

Currently, nine female youth are learning how to use video cameras to produce a short film about changes in their food systems, climate change, and COVID-19, with the first workshop held in January 2021.

Ingrid will continue to work with OMIAASEC during her program, and the IHACC Team looks forward to working with OMIAASEC into the future!

Maricielo and Marjorie working on their visual script for their short film.

Participants on the last day of the January workshop in Chanchamayo, Peru.

New IHACC Publication: Temperature and Place Associations with Inuit Mental Health in the Context of Climate Change

Congratulations to Dr Jacqueline Middleton, a recent IHACC student graduate, and co-authors on the recent publication of a paper in the journal Environmental Research. The paper examined associations between temperature and mental health-related clinic visits in Nunatsiavut, Canada. Click on the link in the citation below to view the open access article!

Citation

Middleton J, Cunsolo A, Pollock A, Jones-Bitton A, Wood M, Shiwak I, Flowers C, & Harper SL (2021). Temperature and place associations with Inuit mental health in the context of climate change. Environmental Research, 111166.

Figure 4 in the article visualizes the direction of statistically significant associations between temperature variables and incidence rate of daily mental health-related visits (Middleton et al. 2021).

IHACC Holds it’s 5th Annual PMC Meeting Series Virtually!

The IHACC Project Management Committee met recently for a series of virtual meetings to discuss the past, present, and future of the IHACC Program! This annual meeting series was an important opportunity for international team members to come together, discuss challenges and successes in the past year, and plan activities moving forward.

The online meetings brought together team members from Uganda, South Africa, Netherlands, UK, Peru, Bolivia, and Canada, spanning a time difference of 8 hours between Edmonton, Canada, and Kampala, Uganda!

New IHACC Publication!

New paper examining climate-associated declines in food security for pregnant Indigenous women in Uganda, highlighting Indigenous women's voices. @PLOSONE

Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247198

New IHACC Publication from Peru!

Congratulations to Alejandra Bussalleu and co-authors for their recent publication, Cultural Values and the Coliform Bacterial Load of “Masato,” an Amazon Indigenous Beverage.

This study used photographic methods to explore cultural values and practices surrounding masato (a beverage made from fermented cassava), which is consumed in many Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. The study also examined coliform presence within this traditional beverage.

Read the open access article here!

CITATION

Bussalleu, A., Di-Liberto, A., Carcamo, C. et al (2018). Cultural Values and the Coliform Bacterial Load of “Masato,” an Amazon Indigenous Beverage. EcoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-020-01498-5

Masato being prepared in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo taken by Matthew King