Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2023 Nov;24(6):1075-1079. doi: 10.1177/15248399231190366.
Previous research in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities has documented high prevalence of food insecurity. Yet many AI/AN scholars and communities have expressed concerns that the dominant societal conceptions of food security are not reflective of the teachings, priorities, and values of AI/AN communities. Food security initiatives often focus on access to food and, at times, nutrition but little consideration is given to cultural foods, the spirituality carried through foods, and whether the food was stewarded in a way that promotes well-being not just for humans but also for plants, animals, land, and water. Despite the concerns of AI/AN communities that their needs are not centered in dominant societal food conceptualizations and food security programming, the food sovereignty efforts of AI/AN communities have captured national attention as a solution to modern food system inequities. Indigenous Food Sovereignty (IFS) is a holistic approach to food that incorporates values of relationality, reciprocity, and relationships. Fundamental differences exist between food security and food sovereignty, yet dominant society often reduces IFS as a solution to food security, rather than an entirely different food system that is predicated on values that contrast with that of dominant society. Despite calls to decolonize the definition and measurement of food security, we explore whether fixing the concept of food security is a worthy endeavor or whether efforts would be better spent supporting the resurgence and revitalization of AI/AN food values, food knowledge, and community food sovereignty initiatives.
先前在美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）社区的研究记录了粮食不安全的高发生率。然而，许多 AI/AN 学者和社区表示担心，占主导地位的社会对粮食安全的概念并不反映 AI/AN 社区的教义、优先事项和价值观。粮食安全倡议通常侧重于获得食物，有时还侧重于营养，但很少考虑到文化食物、食物所承载的精神，以及食物是否以促进福祉的方式管理，不仅是为了人类，也是为了植物、动物、土地和水。尽管 AI/AN 社区担心他们的需求在占主导地位的社会粮食概念化和粮食安全规划中没有得到重视，但 AI/AN 社区的粮食主权努力已经引起了全国的关注，被视为解决现代粮食系统不平等的一种解决方案。土著粮食主权（IFS）是一种整体的粮食方法，包含了关联性、互惠性和关系的价值观。粮食安全和粮食主权之间存在根本差异，但主流社会往往将 IFS 视为解决粮食安全的一种方法，而不是一种完全不同的粮食系统，其价值观与主流社会的价值观形成鲜明对比。尽管有人呼吁非殖民化粮食安全的定义和衡量标准，但我们探讨了修复粮食安全概念是否是一项有价值的努力，或者是否应该更好地支持 AI/AN 粮食价值观、粮食知识和社区粮食主权倡议的复兴和振兴。
