Indigenous food systems

Strengthening IP leadership and advocacy on Food Security

Local Partner: Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Alliance (CIPA) Background and objective: main priority needs for Indigenous peoples are food security (loss of traditional seed and land), preserving indigenous forests and ecosystems, support for livelihoods, and appropriate economic development among others.Cambodia has a number of laws and policies that protect land and natural resource rights of Indigenous …

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Improved Food security and enhanced livelihood for Oromo people in Northern Kenya.

Local Partner: Rupa Farmers Self Help Group. Background and objective: The Oromo people of Northern Kenya have intact traditional knowledge of farming. They practice a mixed farming system, a major source of income and wellbeing. Farming is practiced along the banks of Ewaso Nyiro River. Supporting this indigenous community in the production of these food …

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Strengthening our ancestral practices, through the management of our community assets

Grant name: Strengthening our ancestral practices, through the management of our community assets Local partner: Llaguepulli Indigenous Community Country: Chile Background and objective  At Lake Budi, Lafkenche, Chile, there is a need to expand small family agriculture as part of a new paradigm of work aimed at the creation of a working nucleus, which can …

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Sámi food – threats and opportunities

Local partner: Slow Food Sápmi Country: Sweden (Sampi)  Background and objective Global awareness in indigenous food, medicine, and well-being is both a threat and opportunity when the attitudes of indigenous peoples and commercial interests differ. Industrialized food production and the increasingly unhealthy way we now eat needs to be supplemented with the Sámi model. Work …

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Hoʻoulu ʻĀina Community Initiative

Grant name: Hoʻoulu  ʻĀina Community Project Local partner: Keaukaha Panaʻewa Farmers Association (KPFA) Country: Hawaiʻi (Panaʻewa)  Background and objective  Hawaii’s remote location in the pacific highlights its need for more individuals to farm and the importance of food security. The preservation and cultivation of traditional Hawaiian food and medicinal plants are a way to address …

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Cafe Melanesia: our lands, our foods, our future

Save PNG Inc. Background and objective The Life Melanesian project led by Save PNG Inc., works to increase community health, food sovereignty and agro-biodiversity by increasing climate resiliency amongst Melanesians throughout the Pacific. In collaboration with our Slow Food Melanesia network and regional partners, Save PNG will produce an educational kit complete with audio-video materials, …

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