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Food autonomy: decolonial perspectives for Indigenous health and buen vivir by Juan Camilo Calderón Farfán; Juan David Dussán Chaux; Dolly Arias Torres is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

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Introduction: Indigenous peoples' food systems have weakened as a result of pressures exerted by agrocommercial policies and chains, which has led to the dependency and deterioration of their ways of life. It is in this context that the construction of perspectives on food autonomy positions itself as a potential and strategic field of social decolonial mobilization for indigenous peoples' health and buen vivir. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the meanings of food autonomy from the perspectives of a Nasa Indigenous community in Colombia. Method: This was a qualitative study, involving 38 Indigenous people belonging to the Nasa Huila Indigenous community, aged between 18 and 73, with different occupations. The information was obtained by means of discussion groups and processed through content analysis. The project had the consent and ethical endorsement of the indigenous community. Results: According to the study group, food autonomy is related to the Nasa identity, today weakened by territorial conditions, proximity to non-indigenous populations and the external influence of institutional food programs. Food autonomy develops by means of practices aimed at the prod

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Author

Juan Camilo Calderón Farfán; Juan David Dussán Chaux; Dolly Arias Torres

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)