Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
Societal Transition and Agriculture, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
Matern Child Nutr. 2017 Nov;13 Suppl 3(Suppl 3). doi: 10.1111/mcn.12499.
Indigenous Peoples, especially women and children, are affected disproportionately by malnutrition and diet-related health problems. Addressing this requires an investigation of the structural conditions that underlie unequal access to resources and loss of traditional lifestyles and necessitates inclusive approaches that shed light onto these issues and provide strategies to leverage change. Indigenous Peoples' food systems are inextricably connected to land, which in turn is interwoven with issues of self-determination, livelihoods, health, cultural and spiritual heritage, and gender. Ongoing loss of land and the dominant agri-food model further threaten Indigenous Peoples' food systems. Continuing gender-based discrimination undermines the self-determination and rights of women and negatively impacts their health, nutritional status, and overall well-being, as well as the well-being of households and communities. We suggest that feminist political ecology and modern matriarchal studies provide holistic interlinking frameworks for investigating underlying issues of power and inequality. We further argue that a focus on the principles of respect, responsibility, and relationships, and an openness to different worldviews, can facilitate a bridging of Indigenous and Western approaches in research and community action conducted in partnership with Indigenous Peoples. This can contribute to creating new ways of knowing regarding Indigenous Peoples' food systems, equally valuing both knowledge systems. Indigenous Peoples' rights, right to food, and food sovereignty are frames that, despite some tensions, have the common goal of self-determination. Through their ability to inform, empower, and mobilize, they provide tools for social movements and communities to challenge existing structural inequalities and leverage social change.
原住民，特别是妇女和儿童，受到营养不良和饮食相关健康问题的不成比例影响。解决这个问题需要调查导致资源获取不平等和传统生活方式丧失的结构性条件，并需要采取包容的方法，揭示这些问题并提供利用变革的策略。原住民的粮食系统与土地密不可分，而土地又与自决、生计、健康、文化和精神遗产以及性别等问题交织在一起。土地的持续丧失和占主导地位的农业食品模式进一步威胁着原住民的粮食系统。持续存在的性别歧视破坏了妇女的自决权和权利，对她们的健康、营养状况和整体福祉，以及家庭和社区的福祉产生负面影响。我们认为，女权主义政治生态学和现代母系研究为调查权力和不平等的根本问题提供了整体的相互关联的框架。我们进一步认为，关注尊重、责任和关系的原则，并对不同的世界观持开放态度，可以促进在与原住民合作开展的研究和社区行动中，弥合原住民和西方方法之间的差距。这有助于创造关于原住民粮食系统的新知识，平等重视两种知识体系。原住民的权利、食物权和粮食主权是框架，尽管存在一些紧张关系，但它们有着共同的自决目标。通过它们的信息、赋权和动员能力，它们为社会运动和社区提供了工具，以挑战现有的结构性不平等，并利用社会变革。
