Paper
Creating Local solutions to sustain Food Security through Food Sovereignty in the Trans Himalayan Region in India
presenters
Lianboi Vaiphei
Nationality: India
Residence: Delhi
Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
Presence:Face to Face/ On Site
Narayan Jeet Negi
Presence:Face to Face/ On Site
Keywords:
Tribal Livelihoods, Sustainability
Abstract:
The Trans himalayan region in India harbors diverse culture in the lifestyle of people residing therein who have adapted to the geographic toughness and climate uncertainties over a period of time. They have been sustained with food and nutrition produced from the ecologically fragile environment with the help of the Indigenous Knowledge. The Indigenous systems also represent an important link with crops that are culturally accepted and well suited to local agroecological conditions and dietary practices; as they are based on endemic food crops or farmer-saved varieties of major food staples, such as corn, rice, and wheat. This is very important as the growing impact of climate change is marginalizing the lives of people despite the abundance of natural resources. Enabling local food systems in terms of scale and power distribution is a core element of food sovereignty and it is in this context that food sovereignty seeks to create socially and ecologically equitable and healthy food systems that are also resilient and sustainable.
The paper seeks to study how the different local solutions has strive to create a healthy system of Food Security i.e. socially and ecologically equitable which is not only resilient but sustainable as practiced in the two binary divisions of North Western Himalayas as well as in the North Eastern Himalayas from the different stakeholders ranging from grass roots organizations to international organization to strive for Food Sovereignty as given in Nyéléni Declaration of 2007.