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Photo Essay: Haudenosaunee Gifts: Contributions to Our Past and Common Future

Videos and Websites
  • Rick Hill elaborates the Dish with One Spoon Treaty.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL83GvOO_C0 8:15 – 9:00), Accessed April 12, 2020.
  • Treaty Relations and Two Row Companion – Conversations in Cultural Fluency #5.
    Rick Hill, Coordinator of Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Six Nations Polytechnic, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTIjDzodi4, Accessed April 12, 2020.
  • Two key Haudenosaunee leaders, Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons and Seneca professor John Mohawk speak in a forum sponsored by Bioneers in 2013.
    https://bioneers.org/value-change-for-survival-all-my-relations-chief-oren-lyons-leslie-gray-john-mohawk/, Accessed April 12, 2020.
  • York University Indigenous professors and students contextualize the land acknowledgment
    http://research.info.yorku.ca/2019/01/new-video-explores-the-importance-of-understanding-the-land-acknowledgement/, Accessed April 12, 2020.
  • First Nations, Metis, Inuit books: goodminds.com, book publisher and distributor at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.
Books and Articles
  • Akwesasne Notes (ed). Basic Call to Consciousness. Summertown, TN: Native Voices, 2005.
  • Cornelius, Carol. Iroquois Corn in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Respectfully Teaching about Cultures. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.
  • Hill, Susan. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2017.
    George-Kanentiio, Doug. Iroquois Culture & Commentary. Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 2000.
  • Monture, Rick. We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014.
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press in Collaboration with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, 2016.
  • “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples are Key to Saving our Global Eco-system”
    https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-are-key-to-saving-our-global ecosystems/?fbclid=IwAR1uquxTRTCHNMAU1LQ8sKt0TjSgeD2O7aexXAkTtjzWfz6GZkaZkvw90bQ
Organizations

 

Photo Essay: Language and Food: A World View in Verbs

Videos, websites, and podcasts

For a broader introduction to the diversity of languages, their importance, and how they are threatened, watch:

Books and articles
Organizations

There is a resurgence of interest in and support for the preservation and promotion of Indigenous languages around the world. What efforts are you aware of in your area?

 

Photo Essay: Medicinal Plants in the P’urepecha Cosmovision

Videos and websites
Books and articles
Organizations
  • http://www.etcgroup.org/
    The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration works to address the socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies that could have an impact on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
  • https://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/biopiracy
    Navdanya, an organization in India, has a campaign for the protection of Neem, a traditional medicine and fungicide.

 

Photo Essay: Mutual Nurturing: Re-Weaving Community with Our Elders

Videos and websites
  • Via Campesina, https://viacampesina.org/en/.
    This website contains many publications, videos and updates on the struggles of peasants in more than 80 countries.
Books and articles
Organizations
  • La Via Campesina is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, small and medium size farmers, landless people, rural women and youth, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. https://viacampesina.org/en/.

Earth

Photo Essay: Mother’s Milk: The Original Food

Videos and Websites

Trusted health organizations such as The World Health Organization (WHO), The American Academy Of Pediatrics (AAP), and The American Medical Association (AMA), all recommend breast milk as the best food source for nourishing newborns and infants.

Check their websites to understand their argument:

Books and Articles
Organizations
  • https://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/exclusive_breastfeeding/en/
    Read the position of the World Health Organization, advocating breastfeeding and its contribution to the nutritional, sensory, cognitive and affective development of babies.
    Accessed June 11, 2019.
  • La Leche League International
    Its mission is “To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
    See https://www.llli.org/ to review its philosophy and principles, and locate local chapters around the world.
    Accessed June 11, 2019.

 

Video: The Soil is Alive

Videos and websites
Books and articles
Organizations

There are many organizations working on these issues. Here are a few. What organizations in your area are promoting urban agriculture and/or agroecology?

Songs

 

Video: The Alchemy of Agroecology

Videos and websites
Books and articles
  • Altieri, Miguel. Agroecology: “The science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments.” Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment. Volume 93, Issues 1-3, December 2002, pages 1-24.
  • Olivier de Schutter’s report to the UN Assembly on the Right to Food.
    http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf
  • Orlandi Laureto, Livia Maria; Marcus Vincius Cianciaruso, Diogo Soares Menezes Samia. “Functional diversity: An Overview of its history and applicability”. Natureza & Conservação. Volume 13, Issue 2, July-December 2015, pages 112-116.
Organizations

 

Photo Essay: The Animal Food Cycle: We Feed Them and They Feed Us

Videos and websites
Books and articles
Organizations

Justice

Photo Essay: Promoting Organic Agriculture in Mexico: From Urban Gardens to Multinational Companies

Videos and Websites
Books and Articles
  • M. Altieri, with C. Nicholls and F. Funes, “The Scaling Up of Agroecology: Spreading the hope for food sovereignty and resiliency,” SOCLA’s Rio +20 position paper, accessed April 5, 2020.
    https://www.weltagrarbericht.de/fileadmin/files/weltagrarbericht/The_scaling_up_of_agroecology_Rio.pdf
  • Friedmann, Harriet. “Scaling Up: Bringing public institutions and food service institutions into the project for a local, sustainable food system in Ontario.” Agriculture, Food, and Human Values, September 2007, Volume 24, Issue 3, pp 389–398.
  • Eduardo González Silva. “La Agricultura Orgánica en México.”
    https://www.mexicampo.com.mx/la-agricultura-organica-en-mexico-2/er
    accessed September 9, 2019.
  • Johnson, Lorraine. City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2010.
  • LaManda Joy. Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook. Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc, 2014.
  • Wilson, Charles and Will Allen. The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities. New York: Gotham Books, 2013.
Organizations

There are many organizations working on these issues. Here are a few. What organizations in your area are promoting urban agriculture and/or agroecology?

 

Video: Why Farmers Markets?

Videos and websites

Specific farmers markets in the video:

Books and articles
  • Kato, Yuki and Laura McKinney. “Bringing Food Desert Residents to an Alternative Food Network: A Semi-Experimental Study of Impediments to Food Access.” Agriculture and Human Values, June 2015, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp 215–227.
  • Meffe, Gary; Larry Nielsen, Richard L. Knight, Dennis Schenborn. Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation. Washington: Island Press, 2002.
  • Mie, Alex et al. “Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture: a comprehensive review” Environ Health. 2017; 16: 111. Published online 2017 Oct 27. doi: 10.1186/s12940-017-0315-4
  • Roberts, Wayne. “The High Cost of Cheap Food.” The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food – New Edition. Toronto: The New Internationalist/BTL, 2013, pages ??.
  • Robinson, Jennifer and Jeff A Hartenfeld. The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing food, Cultivating Community. Beverly, MA: Quarry Books, 2007.
Organizations

There are many organizations promoting farmers markets. Here are a few. What organizations can you find in your area?

 

Photo Essay: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Action

Videos and websites
Books and articles
  • Alkon & J. Agyeman (Eds.). Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. See Eric Holt-Gimenez. “Food, Security, Food Justice or Food Sovereignty?: Crises, Food Movements and Regime Change.”, 309-330.
  • Palassio, Christina and Alana Wilcox (eds). The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009
  • Less, Clara and Cecilia Rocha. “Nourishing Belonging: Food in the Lives of New Immigrantsin Toronto.” 148-153.
  • Ramsaroop, Chris and Katie Wolk. “Can We Achieve Racial Equality in the Food Security Movement.” 252-263.
  • Penniman, Leah. Farming While Black: Soul Fire’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2018.
  • Fighting for Food Justice in the Black Creek Community: Report, Analyses and Steps Forward. http://tfpc.to/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FullReport_small.pdf
Music

“We are the new ancestors”. Yakisha Brown, DEY KNOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL8d5wjX3jw

Organizations

 

Video: Who Will Feed Us? The Farm Labour Crisis Meets the Climate Crisis

Videos and websites
Books and articles
  • Desmarais, Annette Aurélie . Frontline Farmers: How the National Farmers Union Resists Agribusiness and Creates Our New Food Future. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2019.
  • Qualman, Darrin & Akram-Lodhi, A. & Desmarais, Annette & Srinivasan, Sharada. (2018). Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada’s farms. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, 5,100-127.
  • Hernandez, Tim Z. . All They Will Call You. Phoenix: University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Music
Organizations

Tables

Photo Essay: From the Mush Hole to the Everlasting Tree School: Colonial Food Legacies Among the Haudenosaunee

Videos and Websites
Books and Articles
Songs

 

Photo Essay: La Comida: The Core of Food Sovereignty

Videos and websites
Books and articles
  • Baker. Lauren. Corn meets Maize: Food Movements and Markets in Mexico. Roman and Littlefield, 2013.
  • Esteva, Gustavo and Madhu Suri Prakash. Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1998, 2014.
  • Esteva, Gustavo; Salvatore Babones, Philpp Babcicky. The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2013.
Organizations

 

Photo Essay: Cooking and Eating Together: From the Kitchen Table to the Community Meal

Videos and websites
Books and articles
  • Hayden, Brian and Suzanne Villeneuve. “A Century of Feasting Studies.” Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 40: 433-449, October 2011.
  • Julier, Alice. Eating Together: Food, Friendship and Inequality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
  • Kerner, Susanne; Cynthia Chou, Morten Warmind. Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
  • Roberts, Wayne and Lori Stahlbrand. “A Smiling Face is Half the Meal: Setting a Place for Culture in Food Advocacy.” Chapter 22 in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture, Kathleen Lebesco and Peter Naccarato (eds). 2017.
Organizations
  • http://slowfood.com
    Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.

    A range of videos on related topics and from diverse parts of the world can be found:
    https://www.youtube.com/user/SlowFoodInt/videos