pacheco-flores, alana ortega-álvarez, rubén carrillo-galván, maría guadalupe cach-pérez, manuel j. ruiz-villarreal, emanuel casas, alejandro
Wild edible trees (WETs) play an important role in the diet of many rural communities. Therefore, research on their use and management is important to support both food sovereignty and local conservation of biocultural resources. We evaluated the different uses of WETs by the community of Zacualpan, Colima, in western Mexico, through 32 semi-struct...
Maudrie, Tara L Caulfield, Laura E Nguyen, Cassandra J Walls, Melissa L Haroz, Emily E Moore, Laura R Dionne-Thunder, Rachel G Vital, Joe LaFloe, Brook Norris, Alanna
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Mainstream approaches to nutrition typically focus on diet consumption, overlooking multi-dimensional aspects of nutrition that are important to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. To address health challenges faced by AI/AN communities, strengths-based measures of nutrition grounded in community worldviews are needed. In collaborati...
Brodt, Sonja Talaugon, Sabine Engelskirchen, Gwenael
The article “Native blue elderberry in hedgerows bridges revenue and conservation goals” focuses on the commercial potential of western blue elderberry (Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea) plantings, primarily on private farmland in California. While blue elderberry is little known as a commercial agricultural crop, it is anything but new to the Indigenou...
g. alvarez, antonia r. manning, sherry ruelas, teresa dosdos
The Ang Pagtanom og Binhi Project is a University–Community partnership and community-based participatory research project exploring the health benefits of food sovereignty practices in the Philippines. In late 2021, in the midst of data collection, Super Typhoon Odette made landfall in the Philippines causing massive environmental and structural d...
Rivera, Igor Díaz de León, Denise Pérez-Salazar, María del Rosario
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Food sovereignty, as defined by the comprehensive definition offered in the 2007 Nyéléni Forum, encompasses essential action lines for transforming a food system based on food sovereignty principles. Understanding how current food system initiatives align with these principles is essential for identifying the necessary processes of change to drive ...
Munoz-Araya, Mariana Williams, Sequoia R. Geoghan, Peter Ortiz-Gonzalo, Daniel Marshall, Krista N. Brewer, Kelsey M. Alston-Stepnitz, Eli Rebolloso McCullough, Sarah Wauters, Vivian M.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Industrialized agriculture, characterized by high inputs, large-scale monocultures, and confined livestock production, with a narrow focus on profit, is a major transgressor of societal and planetary boundaries. It fuels climate change, biodiversity loss, water and soil degradation, nutritional deficiencies, public health issues, cultural erosion, ...
chung-do, jane j. hwang, phoebe w. ho-lastimosa, ilima rogerson, ikaika kenneth, ho demello, kauʻi kauahikaua, dwight ahn, hyeong jun
Native Hawaiians were a healthy and robust population who developed a sophisticated food system that was dismantled by colonization. Currently, Native Hawaiians face pervasive health disparities due to the limited access to healthy foods and lifestyles. This study pilot tested a family-based community-driven intervention called MALAMA, which teache...
Winkler, Greta Kaufmann, Sonja Hruschka, Nikolaus Vogl, Christian R.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have emerged from initiatives introduced by farmers and civil society to ensure the organic quality of products by directly involving producers, consumers, and other stakeholders in the guarantee process. While actor participation in PGS provides the foundation for these systems, it also presents challenges, ye...
Middendorf, Matthias Rommel, Marius
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Introduction Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an emerging model within alternative food networks (AFNs). It shapes close relationships between food producers and consumers, thereby contributing to food sovereignty and agri-food system transformations. Despite rapid growth from about 10 to over 500 CSAs in just over a decade, the model in Ge...
Fontefrancesco, Michele F. Vandebroek, Ina Pieroni, Andrea
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
