How is the Indigenous food sovereignty movement changing global food systems?

#Gather director Sanjay Rawal discusses how the #Indigenous food movement is seeing new life breathed into in ancient practices around the world & how this can and should feed into the future of humanity’s relationship with food. Register: http://ow.ly/b5oS50CqwRM #GLFLive 

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The story of food systems is similar across the histories of many countries and cultures – of colonization being the turning point at which Indigenous peoples’ harmonized use of endemic food sources was thrown wildly off-balance. Food was suddenly transformed from a centerpiece of tradition, identity, and spirituality into a means of development, currency and oppression.

Now, as the risks and pitfalls of global food and agriculture systems are becoming ever more apparent, so too are the health, sustainability and social benefits of native food practices. The documentary film Gather, released in September of this year and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, examines and celebrates this reclamation of food sovereignty in the U.S. specifically, weaving together the stories of a White Mountain Apache chef, a 17-year-old Cheyenne River Sioux food scientist, a Yurok salmon fisherman, and a San Carlos Apache forager and medicine woman.

In this GLF Live on 8 December at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST, Gather director and Indigenous rights activist Sanjay Rawal will discuss how this Indigenous food movement is seeing new life breathed into in ancient practices around the world, and how this can and should feed into the future of humanity’s relationship with food.

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