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Congratulations Dr. Jennifer Temmer!
Summer 2025
Dr. Jennifer Temmer succesfully defended her dissertation and earned her doctorate degree in Geography in the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She convocated in Fall 2025.
Dr. Temmer's dissertation is titled "Integrating Indigenous ValuesAnd Community Strengths to Achieve Indigenous Food Sovereignty and CommunityWell-Being in the Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, Northwest Territories". Her research introduces a novel framework, the Community Agroecological Values Framework (CAVF), which integrates the Community Capitals Framework and Agroecology to prioritize Dene values in food systems planning processes. Findings highlight the contributions of Kakisa’s traditional food-sharing networks in supporting food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and social cohesion, while identifying barriers such as resource limitations and governance misalignments.
Two sections of her dissertation have been published in Fronteirs.
Temmer, J., Spring, A., Simba, R., & Chicot, L. (2025). Community Agroecological Values Framework: Connecting the community capitals and agroecology to advance northern food system transformation in Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada. Frontiers in Climate, 7, 1642633. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1642633
Temmer, J., Spring, A., Chicot, L., & Simba, R. (2025). Healthy people, healthy land: Driving sustainable food systems transformation with community agroecological values and Indigenous food systems planning in Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada. Frontiers in Agronomy, 7, 1642636. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2025.1642636