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Table 1 Interview questions and probes

From: Giving voice to food insecurity in a remote indigenous community in subarctic Ontario, Canada: traditional ways, ways to cope, ways forward

Questions

Probes

Q1. The government questionnaire we did seemed to ask mostly about store-bought foods. Can you tell me about traditional foods and your household?

Probe for

• Any barriers to accessing traditional food

• Has environmental change affected access to traditional foods

 

• Any methods to increase traditional food access and consumption

Q2. How do you adapt if there doesn’t seem to be enough food (traditional or store-bought) for your household?

Probe for

 

• e.g., things you might do to make food last longer, other sources of food

Q3. What do you think can be done to make it easier for people in Fort Albany to get enough (healthy) food (store-bought and/or traditional food)?

Probe for

• Community (community), band (government), band council (government), school (community, individual), people (individual)

 

• Food sharing between community members and families