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 January 28, 2025

from the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

 

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Kwantlen Polytechnic University
University of Vermont
John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Inter-institutional network for food, agriculture, and sustainability
Center for Environmental Food Systems
University of North Carolina Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
 

SPECIAL  SECTION  PUBLISHED

Revitalizing Indigenous food systems through research and knowledge-sharing

Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship

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The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) partners with First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) to advance more equitable and just food systems by mentoring intergenerational Indigenous food systems scholars in academic writing and publishing. 

January 28, 2025 — Today the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) announces the publication of an inaugural column authored by the JAFSCD Indigenous Food Sovereignty Editorial Circle (IFSEC), which upholds Indigenous values, practices and community food system worldviews in academic publishing. The column, entitled Revitalizing Indigenous food systems through research and knowledge-sharing, describes Indigenous ways of life and land in relation to food systems and underscores the importance of Indigenous-led and -supported partnerships exemplified by the First Nations’ Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship. (The issue cover is displayed here.)

Cover of the JAFSCD winter 2024-2025 issue: black and white photo of people gathered around a sign that says ''stop the bombing.''

Members of the IFSEC and contributing authors of the column include Mapuana C. K. Antonio, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa; Joseph P. Brewer II, University of Kansas; Richard Elm-Hill, First Nations; Michael Kotutwa Johnson, University of Arizona; Tabitha Robin, University of British Columbia; A-Dae Romero-Briones, First Nations; Lois Stevens, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay; and Keith Williams, Athabasca University and First Nations Technical Institute.

 

The Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship brings a necessary voice to academic research, welcoming Indigenous thought, practices, and methodologies that are reflected from the understanding of relationships with cultural food systems and their teachings. 

 

The inaugural column also introduces the special section of articles by the Tribal Food Systems Research fellows and their individual research partners. These articles include: 

  • Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities: A scoping review, by Dayna Carroll, Lynn Mad Plume, and Nicole Redvers
  • Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law, by Puanani Apoliona-Brown
  • A framework to guide future farming research with Indigenous communities, by Daniel Hayden and Amber Hayden
  • Understanding Indigenous knowledge of conservation and stewardship before implementing co-production with Western methodologies in resource management: A focus on fisheries and aquatic ecosystems, by Stafford Rotehrakwas Maracle, Jennifer Tewathahá:kwa Maracle, and Stephen C. Lougheed
  • Restoring an Onkwehonwehnéha ecosystem, by Jasmine R. Jimerson

Each article was edited with the assistance of the JAFSCD Indigenous Food Sovereignty Editorial Circle to ensure that the collaborative experience of academic publishing is done with cultural understanding and community responsibility. The articles will also be featured in a series in First Nations’ newsletter, “This Week at First Nations.”

 

JAFSCD publisher and editor-in-chief Duncan Hilchey notes, “We are very proud to now place a special emphasis on Indigenous food sovereignty and look to these researchers to provide leadership in finding ways our food systems can contribute to a more resilient world. JAFSCD endeavors to be a publishing partner for this critical place-based, community-informed, and time-tested knowledge.”

Image of a traditional food storage basket overlaid with key considerations for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) food access interventions. (Figure 2 from the article in this special section, Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities: A scoping review, by Danya Carroll, Lynn Mad Plume, and Nicole Redvers.)

A traditional food storage basket is overlaid with key considerations for American Indian/Alaska Native food access interventions. (This is Figure 2 from the article in this special section, Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities: A scoping review.)

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