People’s Health Movement: A Call to Action on Nutrition, Food Security and Food Sovereignty.

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian Academies, 2014) that highlight community voices in food security still remain under-represented and under-studied in this discourse. University of Winnipeg (UW) researchers and Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) representatives began an action research partnership to explore Indigenous knowledges associated with food cultivation, production, and consumption practices within the community since 2012. The participatory, place-based, and collaborative case study involved 17 oral history interviews with knowledge keepers of FRCN. The goal was to understand their perspectives of and challenges to community food security, and to explore the potential role of Indigenous food knowledges in meeting community food security needs. In particular, the role of land-based Indigenous foods in meeting community food security through restoration of health, cultural values, identity, and self-determination were emphasized by the knowledge keepers—a vision that supports Indigenous food sovereignty. The restorative potential of Indigenous food sovereignty in empowering individuals and communities is well-acknowledged. It can nurture sacred relationships and actions to renew and strengthen relationships to the community’s own Indigenous land-based foods, previously weakened by colonialism, globalization, and neoliberal policies.

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Food security and food sovereignty

Dialogues in Human Geography ◽

10.1177/2043820614537159 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 206-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Jennifer Clapp

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Sovereignty

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Local food sovereignty for global food security? Highlighting interplay challenges

Geoforum ◽

10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 85 ◽

pp. 23-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Julia Leventon ◽

Josefine Laudan

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Local Food ◽

Food Sovereignty ◽

Global Food Security ◽

Global Food

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METODOLOGÍAS DE MEDICIÓN DE LA SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA NUTRICIONAL EN LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA

Actualización en Nutrición ◽

10.48061/san.2021.22.4.127 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

Author(s):

María Flor Feuermann ◽

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Food Policy ◽

Food Sovereignty ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Human Right ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Argentine Republic ◽

Education And Care ◽

The Government

ABSTRACT Introduction: food is a human right and a basic need for their subsistence and development. enough food is produced worldwide to supply all inhabitants and satisfy their caloric and nutritional needs. But the mere fact of producing them does not ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all. Therefore, the correct measurement of nutritional food insecurity is essential for a better understanding of this phenomenon, allowing better communication between society, decision-makers and the political agenda. Objectives: analyze the strengths and limitations of the methodologies used to measure nutritional food security in the Argentine Republic between 1984 and 2017. Materials and methods: a systematic review of articles published in five electronic databases was carried out: Scopus, SciELO, PubMed, BVS and Redalyc. The categories analyzed were the nutritional food security measurement methodologies (when people enjoy food security in addition to a healthy environment, as well as adequate health, education and care), with their type of technique, level, duration and dimension evaluated, limitations and strengths. The search terms used were food insecurity, food security, hunger, food sovereignty, food policy, food availability, nutritional programs, nutritional policies and food assistance. Results: after the search, 22 articles were selected for analysis. Conclusions: all the methodologies analyzed take partial aspects. A methodology has not yet been developed that reflects the multisectoral (food, agricultural, governmental, economic, social, etc.) and multidimensional (access, availability, use and stability) nature of the concept of nutritional food security. Having an adequate measurement of nutritional food security is essential to assess the state of nutritional food insecurity in the Argentine Republic, the government policies that are developed under this concept and verify its impact on the health and nutrition of the Argentine population. Key words: food security; food insecurity; hunger; nutrition policy; Argentina.

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