This article presents the challenges facing reindeer herding as being both a profitable business and part of the traditional culture of the nomadic Indigenous peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia which addresses substantial needs of the local population. Reindeer herding products are used as traditional nutrition, and as effective preventive means and remedies for adapting to the cold and geomagnetic activity in the High North. Export trends of traditional reindeer products have decreased local Indigenous peoples’ access to venison and had a negative impact on their health. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially urgent for the Indigenous peoples to have sufficient access to traditional food and be involved in policy decision-making to maintain this traditional business. We aim to analyze the dependencies of Indigenous peoples on the reindeer produce–exporting “food value chain” and explore how (1) the independence of reindeer herders could be increased in these export chains and (2) how provision of their products to local communities could be secured. The study takes a multidisciplinary approach based on policy and socioeconomic analyses with input from medical research. Primary sources include data collected from interviews and surveys of Indigenous peoples during expeditions to the Nyda settlement, the Nydinskaya tundra, the Tazovsky settlement, the Tazovskaya tundra, the Nakhodka tundra, the Gyda and Gydansky settlements, the Yavai-Salinskaya tundra, the Seyakha settlement, the Seyakhinskaya and Tambeyskaya tundras located along the southern coast of the Ob Bay, the northeast coast of the Yamal Peninsula, the Tazovsky and Gydansky Peninsulas, and the Shuryshkarsky district. Data were collected during the summers and winters of 2014–2020.

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西西伯利亚北极地区土著人民的粮食主权：应对 COVID-19 大流行


本文介绍了驯鹿放牧所面临的挑战，因为驯鹿放牧既是一项有利可图的业务，也是西西伯利亚北极地区游牧土著人民传统文化的一部分，可满足当地居民的大量需求。驯鹿畜牧产品被用作传统营养品，也是适应高北寒冷和地磁活动的有效预防手段和补救措施。传统驯鹿产品的出口趋势减少了当地原住民获得鹿肉的机会，并对他们的健康产生了负面影响。由于 COVID-19 大流行，原住民特别迫切需要获得足够的传统食品并参与政策决策以维持这一传统业务。我们的目标是分析原住民对驯鹿产品出口“食品价值链”的依赖，并探讨如何（1）在这些出口链中增强驯鹿牧民的独立性，以及（2）如何向当地社区提供他们的产品可以得到保障。该研究采用基于政策和社会经济分析以及医学研究投入的多学科方法。主要来源包括在尼达定居点、尼丁斯卡亚苔原、塔佐夫斯基定居点、塔佐夫斯卡亚苔原、纳霍德卡苔原、吉达和格丹斯基定居点、亚瓦伊-萨林斯卡亚苔原、塞亚哈定居点探险期间对土著人民进行访谈和调查收集的数据、Seyakhinskaya 和 Tambeyskaya 苔原，位于鄂毕湾南部海岸、亚马尔半岛东北海岸、塔佐夫斯基半岛和格丹斯基半岛以及 Shuryshkarsky 地区。数据收集于 2014 年至 2020 年夏季和冬季。