In Progress
The Fading Food of the Indigenous Peoples
- Category: Women in Action 2009-1
- Author: Eleanor P. Dictaan-Bang-oa
- Year: 2009
- Link: View article
Review
Food security refers to people’s sustained access to food that is adequate in quantity and quality to maintain a healthy life; and that is socially acceptable at all times. But with the massive influx of large-scale mining, palm oil and monoculture plantations, hydroelectric power dams, logging, and exclusive tourism development, among others in indigenous territories, such access has been denied to indigenous peoples (IPs).