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Food Sovereignty: Giving Control of Food Production to Local ...

Structural issues, such as unequal land distribution and lack of access to resources, often hinder communities from fully realizing their food ...

Food Sovereignty Initiative - Prairie Island Indian Community

We aim to create a sustainable food system through gathering native foods, producing healthy foods, and teaching the native way of cooking.

Growing Relationships through Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Food Matters: Growing Relationships through Indigenous Food Sovereignty ... Food Sovereignty seeks to revalue, rebuild, learn from, and celebrate Indigenous food ...

Food sovereignty - Wikipedia

Food sovereignty is a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production ...

What is Food Sovereignty? - Good Food Finder

Working toward food security is one of the approaches taken to address food access, malnutrition, and hunger issues. However, there is a movement that addresses ...

How Indigenous food sovereignty can improve food security - Beyond

Indigenous food sovereignty can help heal both the land and its people as we face the challenges of climate change.

Food Sovereignty - Community Commons

Food sovereignty means people have the right and autonomy to ensure their food is healthy, culturally appropriate, and produced.

Envisioning Indigenous Food Sovereignty as 'a Whole Ecosystem'

Many see food sovereignty as one way to reclaim that heritage. While the practice of food sovereignty is nothing new, the term was coined in ...

Food Sovereignty: An Advocate Explains Why It Matters In Honduras

Food sovereignty is the right of Campesinas and Indigenous people to make decisions in relation to the production of their own food.

The Supreme Court's ICWA Ruling Impacts Food Sovereignty

These programs, which often promote Indigenous food sovereignty and youth engagement, aim to address the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism ...

Seeds and beyond: Native Americans embrace 'food sovereignty'

“Food sovereignty” emphasizes local food production and people's agricultural and culinary heritage. For Native Americans, it's a way to repair ...

Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: a meta-narrative ...

Food sovereignty-based approaches such as advancing healthy school food systems, promoting soil fertility, gender equity and nutrition, and addressing ...

Why Food Sovereignty Matters - Co-Creative Foodways

Why Food Sovereignty Matters · Insist that the FDA, EPA and USDA monitor the development and use of GE crops and products and enforce safety ...

Food Sovereignty - Grade 11 - Oregon.gov

the lamprey population. Students will connect efforts to revitalize lamprey on the Siletz River with larger issues of food sovereignty and the intersection of ...

Elements of Successful Food Sovereignty Interventions within ...

Disruptions to traditional food systems have also led, and continue to lead, to social and health issues that permeate the Indigenous lived experience [4]. In ...

Perspectives on Native Food Sovereignty & Health Equity

... foods; when someone has a garden, no matter how small…this is a part of food sovereignty.” Regaining control of the food system is a means ...

Food Sovereignty - Nourish Scotland

Values food providers: Many smallholder farmers suffer violence, marginalisation and racism from corporate landowners and governments. Agricultural workers can ...

Food Sovereignty Indicators for Indigenous Community Capacity ...

The WGIFS was created to increase awareness of the underlying issues, concerns and strategies impacting food security in Indigenous communities and to apply ...

Tribes Are Building Food Sovereignty With Help From the Nation's ...

The northwestern Arizona tribe received sporadic food donations through a local church but wanted to take matters into its own hands. In ...

Native American Food Sovereignty, Explained | Season 2 | Episode 6

The ability to decide what crops and foods your community can consume is important to any group of people, but in Indian Country, ingredients ...