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Panel 5: Indigenous youth's innovation and traditional knowledge for food systems transformation. Ms. Mariah Gladstone, Founder of Indigikitchen (Indigenous digital kitchen), USA Entered this work because food systems have been targeted by colonial governments to stop our resistance. Quote: “It is cheaper in the end to feed the whole flock for a year then fight them for a week” = putting us on cheap rations and restricting our ability to feed ourselves was cheaper than fighting us. Native people for a time were almost completely dependent on rations - things we did not even view as food, t
... Lire la suitehey were not our traditional meals. Then, a transition into subsidized meals, and now, the commodity food program. There are clear negative health impacts within our communities due to these foods - diet related illnesses. The disconnect from our food systems is not due to limitations to obtain food, but due to a disconnect from our knowledge systems and traditional foods. I started indigkitchen to help close this gap. It incorporates Indigenous foods, but in a modern way - utilizes social media, our modern kitchen but revitalizes our ancestral knowledge with an emphasis on fresh and healthy food and rebuilding our food systems. Mr. Nutdanai Trakansuphakon, Co-founder and Owner of Little Farm in Big Forest, Thailand Social enterprise work based on traditional knowledge focused on rotational farming. We use this process to understand and respect nature. It is a sustainable mechanism to maintain resources in our community. We want to communicate this to more communities, and we use our food and the number of species we are able to grow to share the importance and benefits (such as increased biodiversity) of rotational farming Little Farm in Big Forest connects storytelling to communicate base knowledge by using social media to help communicate traditional knowledge. It also helps build awareness from space of experience to customer: tastings, rotational farming workshops, learn together, bring in people from outside the community and all bring together ideas Capacity building and community funding, making space to transmit knowledge, use a local curriculum and elders come to teach in the schools including nutrition education. Mr. Amoz Yator, Member of Kipkandule Code Area, Kenya We want to preserve the food systems within the communities considering it is being endangered by the current plight of Indigenous youth into urban areas (which is due to factors from global warming, advancement of tech and modernization). In the wake of this plight the rural areas were left without anyone to continue the food systems. Main activity of the KCA group is to share information - intergenerational sharing of information - the youth have access to modern education compared to the elders - so we wanted to merge the modern and the traditional ways. Originally nomadic pastoralists with only a small bit of farming, but due to global warming and reduced lands, have limited space to practice nomadic pastoralism, so transitioned to more farming. Youth is the largest proportion of the population in most of the communities ~ 75% so they need to play a bigger role in preserving Indigenous food systems, and harness their knowledge from formal education, and access to smartphones and internet compared to elders, and increased financial services (we are using whatsapp now, to bring knowledge from the youth and various specialists to the community on how to incorporate modern ag into the food systems) In order to bridge the info generational gap we need to develop mobile apps that can store info on important Indigenous food information to help preserve information and ways to preserve food systems. It would also let the youth incorporate more modern tech Ms. Claudia Albertina Ruiz, Chef, Mexico- Traditional gastronomy - I try and get the youth to connect to the flavors of the dishes, connect to the experiences and show them the holistic involvement, bringing what they are eating back to who grows the foods Still lots of discrimination still towards Indigenous Peoples. There is a lack of connection to food these days. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment