Indigenous Peoples have an implicit understanding of food security and sustainable diets derived from place-based knowledge and livelihoods spanning thousands of years. Informed by their local knowledge and guided by conceptions of living well, Indigenous Peoples are the custodians of a large part of the world’s biodiversity and natural resources. Recent local, national, and international efforts are bringing forward the vast knowledge of Indigenous Peoples to better document food biodiversity and its cultural and nutritional contributions to human well-being and our global heritage of food knowledge.
Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America by Harriet V. Kuhnlein and Murray M. Humphries, 2017
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Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use by Harriet V. Kuhnlein and Nancy J. Turner, 1991 |