Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment and School of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Matern Child Nutr. 2017 Nov;13 Suppl 3(Suppl 3). doi: 10.1111/mcn.12529.
Traditional knowledge and practice of Indigenous Peoples related to their food use and well-being is a wealth of information for academic study and for public health nutrition. Despite unique long-evolved heritages of knowledge of ecosystem resources, Indigenous Peoples comprise 15% of the global poor, but only 5% of the world's population, and they experience poverty, discrimination, and poor nutritional health at far greater rates than mainstream populations in their nations of residence. These disparities are unacceptable in all human rights frameworks, and the call to alleviate them resonates through all human development programmes and the United Nations organizations. The scholars contributing to this special issue of Maternal and Child Nutrition describe how gender roles and the right to food for several cultures of Indigenous Peoples can be fostered to protect their unique foods and traditions, providing food sovereignty and food and nutrition security benefits, especially for women and children. Aspects of societal maternal or paternal lineality and locality, division of labour, spirituality and decision-making are described. These factors structure the impact of gender roles with Indigenous worldviews on the dynamics of family food access, its availability and use, and the use of local food biodiversity. Cultures of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador, Nigeria, Thailand, India, Canada, Japan, and Morocco are discussed. This publication is a work of the Task Force on Traditional, Indigenous and Cultural Food and Nutrition of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.
传统的知识和实践与土着人民的食物使用和福祉是一个丰富的信息，为学术研究和公共卫生营养。尽管独特的长期进化的生态系统资源知识遗产，土着人民占全球贫困人口的 15%，但仅占世界人口的 5%，他们经历贫困、歧视和营养健康状况不佳的比例远远高于他们所在国家的主流人口。这些差距在所有的人权框架中都是不可接受的，减轻这些差距的呼吁在所有人类发展方案和联合国组织中都得到了响应。为本期刊物撰稿的学者们描述了如何促进几个土着人民文化的性别角色和食物权，以保护他们独特的食物和传统，提供粮食主权和粮食及营养安全惠益，特别是对妇女和儿童。还描述了社会中母系或父系的线性和地方性、劳动分工、精神性和决策等方面。这些因素构成了性别角色与土着世界观对家庭食物获取、可用性和使用以及当地食物生物多样性使用的动态的影响。讨论了厄瓜多尔、尼日利亚、泰国、印度、加拿大、日本和摩洛哥的土着人民文化。本出版物是国际营养科学联合会传统、土着和文化食物与营养工作队的一项工作。
