Build and Broaden: Build and Broaden Indigenous Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Symposium

建立和发展土著农业和粮食主权专题讨论会将为研究人员，从业人员和社区成员提供机会，分享土著农业和食品领域的共同利益。研讨会的内容将集中在土著食品领域的四大主题：生态，经济，多样性和主权。研讨会与会者将观看演示文稿，参与讨论，并参加有关土著食品的动手示范。主权被定义为自治、权威、管辖权和代理权，因此土著食物主权意味着土著人民有权力、代理权和能力来定义什么是食物，食物应该如何种植、照顾、收获、加工、消费和相关。由于各地的原住民都在努力重新定义他们的所有关系，这种与植物和动物世界的关系是加深所有人与祖先和收养食物的古老关系的关键。该项目将通过其目标和成果，包括程序，帮助将这些新定义的关系带给生活在海龟岛（北美）的所有人。 土著食品在我们的社会中研究不足，因此，关于这一领域的当代学术工作，只有很少的证据存在。像这样的研讨会对于集体理解人类与食物之间的关系至关重要，特别是土著食物。据估计，目前，全国各地定期举行的食品研究活动中只有五个集中在土著食品上。鉴于美洲印第安部落在美国的独特地位，重要的是要对粮食和粮食系统的主权形成共同的理解。最后，传统生态知识和科学生态知识在土著食品方面的关系尽管研究得很少，但有可能解决全世界的粮食不安全问题。TEK和SEK土著食品的研究都是解决世界粮食短缺，健康和营养，以及土著/非土著权利的核心。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The Build and Broaden Indigenous Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Symposium will provide opportunities for researchers, practitioners and community members to share common interests in the field of Indigenous agriculture and foods. Content of the symposium will be focused on four major themes in the area of Indigenous foods: ecology, economy, diversity, and sovereignty. Symposium attendees will view presentations, engage in discussions, and participate in hands-on demonstrations regarding Indigenous foods. Sovereignty is defined as self-governance, authority, jurisdiction and agency, thus Indigenous food sovereignty means Indigenous people have the authority, agency and ability to define what is food, how food should be grown, cared for, harvested, processed, consumed, and related to. As Indigenous people everywhere struggle yet persevere in redefining all their relationships, this relationship to the plant and animal worlds is key to deepening the ancient relationships all people have to their ancestral and adopted foods. This project will help bring these newly defined relationships to all the people living across Turtle Island (North America) through its objectives and outcomes, including proceedings. Indigenous foods are under-researched in our society, and as such, only scant evidence exists regarding contemporary scholarly work in this area. Symposia like this are vital to the collective understanding of the relationships between humans and food in general, and Indigenous foods specifically. It is estimated that currently, only five of the regularly occurring events focused on food studies across the nation are focused on Indigenous foods. Given the unique status of American Indian tribes in the US, it is important to develop a shared understanding of sovereignty in relation to food and food systems. Lastly, the relationship between traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) in relation to Indigenous foods, although little studied, has the potential to address food insecurity worldwide. TEK and SEK studies of Indigenous foods are both core to addressing world food shortages, health and nutrition, and Indigenous/non-Indigenous rights.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.