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Indigenous food sovereignty: A model for social learning
Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Ground Up
At a grassroots level,the Indigenous food sovereignty approach seeks to reconcile Indigenous
environmental ethics and cultural protocols with the re-establishment
of community-based economies. Indigenous food sovereignty provides
a framework for a speci!c policy approach to addressing the underlying
issues impacting long-term food security in Indigenous communities: it
serves to support Indigenous peoples and our efforts to uphold our sacred
responsibilities to nurture relationships with our land, culture, spirituality
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Resetting the Table - A Peoples Food Policy in Canada
Written by the Peoples Food Policy Project - Indigenous Circle of activists and scholars from across Canada.
Identifies main challenges and ways forward - outlining key recommendations for forming federal policies as it relates to reconciling Indigenous land, food and cultural values within the food sovereignty movement in Canada.
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Health
- Land
- Mining
- Other
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Integrated assessment
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative
The United Nations Permanent Forum at its Seventh Session of the Permanent Forum held from 21 April to 2 May 2008 recommended that "...the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, university research centres and relevant United Nations agencies conduct further studies on the impacts of climate change and climate change responses on indigenous peoples who are living in highly fragile ecosystems".
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Health
- Land
- Other
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Developing human capacity
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Integrated assessment
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Sustenance and livelihoods
Culture, Colonization and Policy Making: Issues in Native American Health
To improve health care, education, and prevention, a larger cultural and historical contextual framework is needed which pays heed to the impact of colonization and its effects on Native peoples. Such a holistic framework evaluates the long-term impact of introduced diseases and the cultural trauma caused by the removal of Indians to reservations (Jaimes 1992), the boarding school era (Johansen 2000), and the forced sterilizations of Native women (Carpio 1995; Torpy 1998).
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Asserting Tribal Sovereignty over Cultural Property: Moving Towards Protection of Genetic Material and Indigenous Knowledge
The purpose of this article is to provide, to tribes faced with an era of genetic research, some guidance about how to establish strong protections over their genetic material and Indigenous knowledge. The first section will discuss why genetic material should be protected as cultural property and will briefly examine why tribes need to be concerned about research involving genetic material and Indigenous knowledge, with a particular focus on human genetic research. The second section will examine a variety of examples of human genetic research on Indigenous peoples.
