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Industrial Food Systems

According to Stats Canada

Health Benefits of Traditional Food Systems

  • Increased Risk of Chronic Illness
  • Over half of the population is at or below poverty line
  • Many Bands do not have access to full service health care

  • Is holistic in nature
  • Free of chemical additives, sugars, trans fats
  • Nutrient levels are naturally high and unaltered by factory production
  • Additives
  • Antibiotics
  • Food Safety
  • Hormones
  • These cause
  • Chronic Illness
  • Malnutrition

  • Disconnection from local culture

Salmon: full of omega-3s which prevent diabetes and stroke

Moose: an excellent source of protein, iron and Vitamin C- used for absorbing Iron

Berries: Excellent Source of

Vitamins A& C, Folate

Indigenous Food Systems

We have to create land reclamation projects while also feeding ourselves

Difficulties of Indigenous Food Systems

Developed World - Canada

Developing Countries - Africa

But getting rid of indigenous food systems comes with consequences...

  • Some ecosystems naturally provide more food than others
  • These places get destroyed to plant Western foods
  • Difficult to revert large areas of developed farmland.
  • Africa has always been full of natural food producing crops.
  • Many large animals (and people) depend on these crops
  • Colonialism and the Green Revolution saw the increase of western crops in these fertile areas.
  • Alberta 43% of natural prairie exists, but is considered too dry for crops.
  • Sask + Manitoba have around 20% natural prairie left but contain many invasive species
  • Nutrient loss
  • Clear cutting
  • Increased land inputs (water mostly)
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Desertification
  • Food chain disruption
  • Salinity increase in desert rivers

References

Beckford, C.L., Jacobs, C., Williams, N., & Nahdee, R. (2010). Aboriginal Environmental Wisdom, Stewardship, and Sustainability: Lessons from the Walpole Island First Nations, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Environmental Education, 41(4). 239-248. doi: 10.1080/00958961003676314

Grey, S., & Patel, R. (2015). Food sovereignty as decolonization: some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and development politics. Agriculture and Human Values, 32(3), 431-444. doi:10.1007/s10460-014-9548-9

Solomons, T., Hanson, E. (2009). Sparrow Case. Retrieved from http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/land-rights/sparrow-case.html

Earle, L. (2011). Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health. Retrieved November 10, 2015, from http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/docs/social determinates/1828_NCCAH_mini_diets_health_final.pdf

Diseases ad Health Conditions. (2014, December 18). Retrieved November 12, 2015, from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/diseases-maladies/index-eng.php

Karim, Z. (2014). Indigenous Food Production System and the

Impact of Population Growth: Community-Based Examples with Anthropological Evidence. Asian Social Science, 10(12).

Kuhnlein, H. (2013). Indigenous Peoples' food systems & well-being: Interventions &

policies for healthy communities. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Rudolph, K. (2013). A Recipe for Change: Reclamation of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation for Decolonization, Resource Sharing, and Cultural Restoration. Local Environment, 18(9), 1079-1098. Retrieved October 1, 2015, from http://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2012.754741

Achieving Food Sovereignty

Ojibwe First Nation

Musqueam First Nation

Ginogaming and Aroland First Nations

Robert Sparrow

  • workshops
  • building own economy based on local rices
  • dedicated to sustainability
  • case taken to provincial court, county court, court of appeals and finally the supreme court.
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