Quiz 4 (Indigenous food sovereignty)

Question 1

What is food soverignty

Answer 1

International movement of peasants, farmers, and indigenous people in the global south
Includes:
- Food security initiatives that weren’t focused on local production
- Political and economic powers impacting food production

Question 2

Food sovereignty pillars

Answer 2

1. Focusing on food for people
2. Building knowledge and skills
3. Working with nature
4. Valuing food providers
5. Localizing food systems
6. Puting control locally
7. Food is sacred

Question 3

Effects of colonization

Answer 3

• overtaking of land (forced migration, land dispossession)
• industrialization of land (resource extraction, mining, etc.)
• Imposed policies on indigenous farmers
• Environmental dispossession (loss of land and land based cultural resources, contamination, disputes over land rights)

Question 4

Effects of colonization (residential schools)

Answer 4

• Deprived of traditional foods and culture
  Exposed to western diets for the first time (sugar, salt, processing)
• Intentionally underfed
  Fed unsafe/ spoiled foods
• Poor dental hygiene
• Intergenerational trauma
• ## sexual assault/ beatings

Question 5

Indigenous health and wellbeing today

Answer 5

• Food insecurity due to lack of traditional food sources, and income inequalities
• health problems

Question 6

indigenous food beliefs and practices

Answer 6

• Food is more than a substance honour ancestors, nations, and lands
• Powerful relationship builder, people to their culture, lands, and histories
• Food is a gift, the land is a gift fro the creator and land is the source of these gifts
• Health is connected to food, physical and spiritual
• Restoring the global food system also means restoring traditional relationships to the land and sea
• right to safe, healthful food, as well as responsibility to others on the food chain
• Need to decolonize, and therefore decomodify.