LOCAL PARTNER: Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance – NAFSA
The goals of this project are to work with a wide variety of Native American tribal elders, community members, and youth, to “train the mentors” on using their new Seed Sovereignty Assessment Tool to increase food security and the retention of traditional knowledge and practices at the community level.
Trainer/Mentor Role is to engage with indigenous community members to strengthen their facilitative, teaching and mentorship skills as it relates to community-based seed sovereignty efforts and seed production.
We will be providing sustained engagement and mentorship support beyond the initial training through a series of tools; yearly gatherings, monthly calls within the cohort of trained mentors, and continued access to educational resources developed through the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network. The program is led by a powerful Mohawk woman with support from Native men and women.
Local Partner:
The SeedKeepers Network is a network of hundreds of grassroots Native Americans concerned with Native seeds and foods. It is connected to tribal, regional, national, and international groups such as Slow Food, Indigenous Terra Madre.
NAFSA is a relatively new organization that emerged from over a decade of grassroots Native American activism and advocacy for Native American farmers, seed keepers, hunters, fishers, chefs, and educators. Their flagship program is the Indigenous SeedKeepers Network.
