Indigenous Food Systems Network

The "From the Ground Up" Toolkit is a courageous bundle of insights and analysis gained from networking and learning events led by the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty since 2006. It is a living, non-exhaustive synthesis of key insights and analyses intended to create ethical spaces of engagement (Ermine, 2007) in the interface where Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) meets the settler-colonial narrative of agriculture, food security/food sovereignty, health, forest and rangeland management, foodland conservation, and community economic development.

The toolkit seeks to inspire and support interventions and strategies for decolonizing regenerative food systems and assessing the key conditions necessary for implementing and upholding Indigenous rights and response-abilities to protect, conserve and regenerate the complex system of Indigenous biocultural heritage in the land and food system. Engagement in all four Bundles (modules) in the toolkit offers a comprehensive approach to navigating complex systems thinking through the wider promotion and application of the transformational and relational teachings commonly shared by Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Hence the teachings of “all my relations”, and the trickster “Coyote” pedagogy applied in the Third Eye Seeing Methodology outlined in Bundle #3.

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