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  2. Jun 2025
    1. “food sovereignty,” which to him involves theidea that “our treaties recognize that food is at the center of our cultures. Indian tribesare sovereign nations, and part of that sovereignty includes access to the traditionalfoods needed to keep ourselves and our communities healthy and strong”

      Why food is central to Indigenous life.

    2. We kept our word when we ceded all ofwestern Washington to the United States, and we expect the United States to keep itsword. (Treaty Indian Tribes in Western Washington 2011, 6)

      This could be a really good source to investigate

    3. The claims are moreabout how colonial domination, in contexts such as US settler colonialism, is organizedto undermine certain human institutions that are pivotal to Indigenous peoples’ capaci-ties to exercise collective self-determination, food sovereignty being a significant part ofthat

      Key argument of this article. Self-determination (knowledge systems) and how that relates to food systems.

    4. “There is no substitute for wild rice. My whole wayof being as an Indian would be destroyed. I can’t imagine being without it. And there is nosubstitute for this lake’s rice”

      Food is very key to indigenous knowledge systems. This is a good example to use on how indigenous knowledge was ignored.

    5. right to have unlimited access to this land for spiritual andcultural purposes”

      Even is there is supposed to be protections, ongoing ecological imperialism continues to jeopardize indigenous land and relationships.

    6. countries

      This paper is specifically focused on food systems. If he explains how traditional food systems were interupted you can use this and explain why this is important and one of the outcomes of settler colonialism. Food systems are central to relationships between human and nonhuman lives.

  3. May 2025
    1. there are few empirical studies that use agroecological methods,particularly in SSA and limited attention to the political and socialdimensions of agroecological approaches (

      They are expanding research to include the social aspects of this process.

    2. Thus this study paid explicit attention to gender and other formsof vulnerability—in this case poverty, health status and age

      A study was conducted in SSA in Malawi. Factors of participants that were studied were gender roles, poverty, health status, and age.

    1. These principles are:

      Principles of PAR. Might be good to have a slide about this and then go into an example, either Malawi or one of the case studies form the other paper?

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    1. Thisprocess elevates community knowledge, challenges traditional power dynamics in theresearch process, and can directly benefit the communities involved

      why CBPR is so important

  4. Apr 2025
    1. Take for example a New York Times article by George Johnson, who claimsthat Hawaiian “religious fundamentalists” are among the last few left “stillwaging skirmishes against science.”

      The idea that science is the only knowledge worth having, every other way of knowing is cultural, less important.

    2. Anydeviation from the roles to which Hawaiians are assigned poses a threat tothe state’s image within neoliberal modernity as capable of rational gover-nance. For this reason, discrediting Kanaka indigeneity becomes a centralconcern of the state

      Resistance from Native Hawaiians discredits the industry and authority settlers claim over the islands. They have painted them in a specific way (docile, hosts, unable to govern themselves). When there is backlash this narrative is challenged.

    3. The disregard for the sense of injury experienced by Hawaiianscaused by astronomy expansion on Mauna Kea is a reflection of the contin-ued disavowal of American settler colonialism in Hawai‘i more broadly

      Interesting point. They know what they are doing is wrong but they do it anyways. Modern form of colonialism, nothing can stand in the way of science (justification).

    4. characteristic of liberal multiculturalism would become instrumental in cast-ing skepticism on Kanaka ‘Ōiwi activism and the community’s calls for pro-tection of the mountain

      Using this jargon of equity and inclusion undermined the point Native's were trying to make. How could they stand in the way of science if they are being included?

    5. In the absence of a criticalself-reflection on this inherent ethnocentrism, the tacit claim to universaltruth reproduces the cultural supremacy of Western science as self-evident.Here, the needs of astronomers for tall peaks in remote locations supplant theneeds of Indigenous communities on whose ancestral territories these obser-vatories are built. It does so by invoking the morality of liberal multicultur-alism

      The conflict of science and and indigenous needs

    1. Gates Foundation, telling them exactly how to do it. . . . And with so much money on the table and African governments completely strapped for cash and investment, it captured not just the narrative, but the policy space.”

      The Gates foundation kind of monopolized this space. The African government didn't have many options and Gates had money.

    2. Increasingly, global organizations see those trends and point to agroecology as the best solution.

      Despite working for over 15 years and spending millions of dollars, AGRA was unable to meet their own goals, and there is no evidence to show that there tactics have helped reduce poverty or food insecurity. Agroecology is the best solution for this.

    3. “the money that’s being spent [on agriculture in Africa] is not going to the right kinds of food systems.”

      Millions of dollars being spent to address the hunger crisis in Africa is being funneled into damaging food systems.

    4. Research like that is causing a shifting paradigm in many global development agencies, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), toward an emphasis on agroecology, especially as a strategy for confronting the climate crisis

      Agroecology practices could be the solution to food sovereignty for places like Africa. Growing food with just increased productivity in mind does not account for the environmental damages that come with industrial systems. Agroecology practices address these issues and allows communities to have control over feeding themselves.

    5. But critics say this approach to food production relies on expensive inputs, and that a lack of attention to environmental impact has gradually limited its successes.

      Tactics for high yield growth like hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers are undermined by their expensive costs and environmental impacts.

    6. still over 50 percent, and the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity has increased slightly, to 82 percent of the population

      despite all this money people are still poor and hungry

    7. increase productivity in their fields, using the same monocropping techniques embraced by commodity corn and soy growers in the U.S.

      How could we address the problems of hunger without these problems of ecological and cultural damage?

    1. ‘but few probably are aware that the acquisitionof this deposit, which enriches our lands and fills the purses of our traders,entails an amount of misery and suffering on a portion of our fellow creatures

      It probably wouldn't have mattered

    2. . Liebig and Marx noted that throughincorporation into the global capitalist market and long-distance trade, theearth was robbed of its richness, the soil was depleted of its nutrients, and theseparation between town and country increasingly became international.

      Main point about how guana led to a metabolic riff.

    3. In this,it attempts to impose a ‘‘‘totalizing’’ framework of control’ where everythingmust prove its ‘productive viability’ and its ability to generate profit within adesired timeframe in order to be seen as useful.

      If something can't be commodified and used to generate profit, then it is useless in the capitalist system.

    4. . A metabolic relationshipinvolves regulatory processes that govern the interchange of materials.

      It seems like human extraction would violate these relationships. It is definitely not a symbiotic relationship between man and nature.

    5. , in order to demonstrate the disproportionate (and undercompensated)transfer of matter and energy from the periphery to the core, and the exploitationof environmental space within the periphery for intensive production and wastedisposa

      The Periphery is like third world countries being exploited for the resources and cheap labor, while the core is countries like the US that reap the benefits.

    6. are dependent upon further ecological exploitation and ecologicalunequal exchange.

      Capitalism depends on the exploitation of typically struggling nations where they can obtain resources for the cheapest price.