Indigenous peoples' food systems & well-being : interventions & policies for healthy communities / edited by Harriet V. Kuhnlein [and three others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Kuhnlein, Harriet V., 1939-

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

McGill University. Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Food.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Nutrition.

Local foods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Other Title:

Indigenous peoples' food systems and well-being

Place of Publication:

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indigenous Peoples in cultural homelands of the most rural areas of developing regions experience challenges in using their traditional food systems and to ensure food security and health despite the treasures of food biodiversity that could support well-being. This book is the third in a series promoting use of local food systems by Indigenous Peoples; the first defines the process to document local food resources, and the second describes food systems in 12 diverse rural areas of different parts of the world. Here we describe processes and findings from more than 40 interdisciplinary collaborators who created health promotion interventions for communities using local food systems. Included are participatory processes using local knowledge and activities specifically for local food; global overviews of Indigenous Peoples' health circumstances, environmental concerns, and infant and child feeding practices; and nine specific case examples from Canada, Japan, Peru, India, Colombia, Thailand and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Why do Indigenous Peoples' food and nutrition interventions for health promotion and policy need special consideration?

Chapter 2. Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples' health through traditional food systems and self-determination

Chapter 3. Global environmental challenges to the integrity of Indigenous Peoples' food systems

Chapter 4. Infant and young child complementary feeding among Indigenous Peoples

Chapter 5. Promotion of traditional foods to improve the nutrition and health of the Awajúnûûû of the Cenepa River in Peru

Chapter 6. The Dalit food system and maternal and child nutrition in Andhra Pradesh, South India

Chapter 7. Gwich'in traditional food and health in Tetlit Zheh, Northwest Territories, Canada: phase II

Chapter 8. Inga food and medicine systems to promote community health

Chapter 9. The value of Inuit elders' storytelling to health promotion during times of rapid climate change and uncertain food security

Chapter 10. Culture-based nutrition and health promotion in a Karen community

Chapter 11. The Nuxalk Food and Nutrition Program for Health revisited

Chapter 12. Let's Go Local! Pohnpei promotes local food production and nutrition for health

Chapter 13. Tasty tonoto and not-so-tasty tonoto: fostering traditional food culture among the Ainu people in the Saru River region, Japan

Chapter 14. What food system intervention strategies and evaluation indicators are successful with Indigenous Peoples?

Chapter 15. Human rights implications of Indigenous Peoples' food systems and policy recommendations

Chapter 16. Policy and strategies to improve nutrition and health for Indigenous Peoples.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

923762805