Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

Related thematic areas and guiding questions:

  • What kind of inequities and power imbalances are present in food systems and how do they affect resilient FSN and especially for those groups facing multidimensional and intersectional aspects of inequality and vulnerability?
  • What are the main types of vulnerabilities facing food supply chains and what are the potential consequences for food system actors (including input suppliers, food producers, traders, food system workers and consumers), considering different kinds of potential shocks?

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems can be particularly affected by pollution and other types of environmental degradation, e.g. when pesticide accumulation contributes to a decline in native pollinators and pest predators upon which Indigenous (and other) food systems depend (Fernández-Llamazares et al., 2020). Moreover, the loss of subsistence/traditional livelihoods (Torres-Vitolas et al., 2019; Blackmore et al., 2021) and limited access to and other actors’ appropriation of land and associated resources can decrease adaptation to current and newly emerging shocks (Parraguez-Vergara et al., 2016; IPBES, 2019). This restricts traditional food system management including the application of Indigenous knowledge and generation of novel insights/practices that address newly emerging opportunities and challenges. In addition, various actors’ risk perceptions and future visioning can create trade-offs and conflicts so that the design of multi-scale governance approaches is important (Hess & Brown, 2018).

Archetype analysis can help reveal recurrent patterns in the trade-offs and synergies between land use, food, biodiversity and climate adaptation, among others, and in the configurations of associated policy processes (Sietz et al., 2019; Oberlack et al. 2023). Focussing on food system interactions, insights into archetypes can support the tailoring of integrative response options. The up-scaling of actions to sustainably transform food systems can be informed by closing of regional knowledge gaps about archetypical interactions and systematic investigation of scenario archetypes (Sietz & Neudert 2022).

References

  • Blackmore, I., Iannotti, L., Rivera, C., Waters, W. F., & Lesorogol, C. (2021). Land 1693 degradation and the link to increased livelihood vulnerabilities among indigenous 1694 populations in the Andes of Ecuador. Land Use Policy, 107, 105522. 1695 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105522
  • Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Garteizgogeascoa, M., Basu, N., Brondizio, E. S., Cabeza, M., 1937 Martínez-Alier, J., McElwee, P., & Reyes-García, V. (2020). A State-of-the-Art 1938 Review of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Pollution. Integrated 1939 Environmental Assessment and Management, 16(3), 324–341. 1940 https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4239
  • Hess, D. J., & Brown, K. P. (2018). Water and the politics of sustainability transitions: From 2045 regime actor conflicts to system governance organizations. Journal of Environmental 2046 Policy & Planning, 20(2), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2017.1341304 
  • IPBES. (2019). Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. IPBES 2125 Secretariat. https://ipbes.net/node/35274  
  • Parraguez-Vergara, E., Barton, J. R., & Raposo-Quintana, G. (2016). Impacts of Climate 2531 Change in the Andean Foothills of Chile: Economic and Cultural Vulnerability of 2532 Indigenous Mapuche Livelihoods. Journal of Developing Societies, 32(4), 454–483. 2533 https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X16667874 
  • Oberlack C, Pedde S, Piemontese L, Václavík T and Sietz D (2023). Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies. Environ. Res. Lett. 18 060202. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acd802. 
  • Sietz, D & Neudert, R (2022). Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate. Environ. Res. Lett. 17 113004. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9a5c. 
  • Sietz, D, Frey U, Roggero M, Gong Y, Magliocca N, Tan R, Janssen P and Václavík T (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: methodological portfolio and analytical frontiers Ecol. Soc. 24, 34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11103-240334
  • Torres-Vitolas, C. A., Harvey, C. A., Cruz-Garcia, G. S., Vanegas-Cubillos, M., & 2825 Schreckenberg, K. (2019). The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Food Insecurity among 2826 Subsistence-Oriented Indigenous Communities in Amazonia: A Qualitative 2827 Examination of Coping Strategies among Riverine Communities along the Caquetá 2828 River, Colombia. Human Ecology, 47(3), 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-2829 019-0074-7 

Further references: 

  • Caviedes et al. (2024). Indigenous and local knowledge on social-ecological changes is positively associated with livelihood resilience in a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. Agric Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103885. 
  • Maudrie TL, Colón-Ramos U, Harper KM, Jock BW, Gittelsohn J. A Scoping Review of the Use of Indigenous Food Sovereignty Principles for Intervention and Future Directions. Curr Dev Nutr. 2021 Jul 1;5(7):nzab093. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzab093. PMID: 34345758; PMCID: PMC8321882.
  • Nadal and Nazar-Beutelspacher (2023) COVID-19: Solidarity initiatives for food security in the Mayan indigenous region of south-southeast Mexico. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100697