Indigenous food security and the limits of food sovereignty ...

• Main Author: Salpeter, Foster Isaiah
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2023
• Subjects: anishina*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0435738; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0435738

Progress in combatting food insecurity, the condition of not having reliable access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food, has stalled in this century, especially in developed countries. In Canada and the United States, while food insecurity remains common across the broader population, indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted and face even higher rates of food insecurity, with percentage estimates ranging from a third to almost half. In this thesis, I provide a philosophical examination of the two principal frameworks for countering food insecurity—one which I call the “neoliberal food security paradigm”, and the second known as the “food sovereignty” paradigm—with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms and reasons for which these frameworks can interfere with or promote indigenous food security. Via a case study on manoomin (wild rice) cultivation in the Great Lakes region by the Anishinaabeg, I explore the ways that settler-industrialism, and more specifically large-scale agricultural ...