Building food sovereignty, sustainability and better health in environmentally-impacted Native Americans

为受环境影响的美洲原住民建立粮食主权、可持续性和更好的健康

基本信息

批准号：
10624753
负责人：
Esther Erdei
金额：
$ 58.15万
依托单位：
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-05-19 至 2027-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10624753
关键词：
Address Affect Air American Blood Blood Pressure Body mass index Calcium Chronic Disease Church Communities Community Actions Community Health Complex Consensus Deficiency Diseases Development Disease Eating Education Engineering Enrollment Environment Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Environmental sludge Equity Exposure to Farm Folic Acid Food Health Health Food Health Promotion Heavy Metals Height Home Indian reservation Individual Industrialization Infrastructure Intervention Iron Longevity Malnutrition Maps Measurement Medicine Methods Micronutrients Native Americans Native-Born New Jersey Nutritional Outcome Paint Personal Satisfaction Persons Plants Poverty Process Public Health Qualifying Quality of life Recreation Research Risk Sister Site Soil Solvents Source Surface Surveys System Testing Translations Tribes Turtles Urine Vitamins Water Weight assault burden of illness citizen science community building community center demographics design disease disparity evidence base experience food insecurity food security implementation framework improved innovation manufacturing facility marginalization member mind/body non-Native nutrition prevent programs psychosocial stressors resilience sex superfund site toxicant tribal Nation tribal community tribal member volunteer wasting water quality

项目摘要

The Ramapough Turtle Clan Chief states that, “Return of healthy soil on our farm will allow healthy plant production, resulting in healthy foods to nurture our bodies and mind with optimum results.” Native Tribes have been, and continue to be, exposed to disproportionate amounts of toxic waste as a product of decades of environmental injustice. Emerging from this disastrous situation are Native Americans (NA) who face an even greater risk of adverse health outcomes from contaminated soil that grows tainted traditional food sources, degraded recreational water sources leading to isolation and a loss of sovereignty, community strength and resiliency. Such is the case for the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan members in northern NJ who live on a 500-acre toxic waste site generated by over a decade of industrial dumping of thousands of gallons of paint sludge with high levels of heavy metals and solvents. As no culturally-meaningful solutions have been implemented for the Ramapough community that could promote public health and well-being to date, we will build on our equitable 8-year-long Tribal-academic partnerships with this Tribal Nation to advance tradition- centered, evidence-based best practice strategies for sustainable environmental food systems that address food insecurity, nutritional deficiency, and chronic disease health outcomes among this community disproportionately affected by environmental contamination. Three Specific Aims and several sub-aims are proposed to test the hypothesis that a complex array of factors including soil, water and plant contamination, psychosocial stressors, displacement and environmental assaults to the land have led to a loss of food sovereignty and sustainability; and, that food security and cultural food practices can be renewed through a community-engineered farming system and educational strategies to: 1) Assess the extent of environmental contamination, individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes; 2) Adapt and implement a community-centered farming program on the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm land informed by a design studio approach; and 3) Assess the development process and early outcomes of the farm program using an implementation science framework and refine the public health action plan for dissemination to reduce food insecurity, regain food sovereignty, and improve community health. This project will identify and implement safe and nutritious farming practices and restore food sovereignty among an environmentally-impacted and marginalized semi-urban Tribal Nation through development of a farming system program supported by the Turtle Clan-founded Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. This innovative study will integrate a culturally-centered, environmental road map created from community input for food sovereignty and sustainability that can be shared and disseminated to other environmentally-impacted Nations leading to an environmental public health action plan based on our research findings.

拉马波海龟族长表示：“我们农场恢复健康的土壤将使植物健康生长生产，从而生产出健康食品来滋养我们的身体和心灵，并取得最佳效果。” 几十年来，我们一直并继续接触到不成比例的有毒废物。从这种灾难性的情况中脱颖而出的是美洲原住民（NA），他们面临着平等的局面。受污染的土壤种植受污染的传统食物来源，造成不良健康后果的风险更大，休闲水源退化导致孤立和主权、社区力量和生活在新泽西州北部的拉马波卢纳佩龟族成员的情况就是如此。十多年来工业倾倒数千加仑油漆而产生的 500 英亩有毒废物场由于没有具有文化意义的解决方案，因此产生了含有大量重金属和溶剂的污泥。迄今为止，为拉马波社区实施的可以促进公共卫生和福祉的措施，我们将建立在我们与这个部落国家长达 8 年的公平部落学术伙伴关系的基础上，以推进传统 - 以证据为中心的可持续环境粮食系统最佳实践战略，解决该社区的粮食不安全、营养缺乏和慢性病健康结果三个具体目标和几个子目标受到环境污染的影响尤为严重。提出检验以下假设：包括土壤、水和植物污染在内的一系列复杂因素，社会心理压力、流离失所和对土地的环境破坏导致粮食损失主权和可持续性；并且，粮食安全和文化食品做法可以通过社区工程农业系统和教育策略： 1) 评估环境影响的程度拉马波部落的污染、个人有毒物质负担和微量营养素水平以及健康障碍 2) 在 Munsee 调整并实施以社区为中心的农业计划三姐妹药用农场土地采用设计工作室方法；3) 评估开发；使用实施科学框架并完善农场计划的过程和早期成果传播公共卫生行动计划以减少粮食不安全、恢复粮食主权并改善粮食安全该项目将确定并实施安全和营养的耕作方法并恢复社区健康。受环境影响和边缘化的半城市部落国家的粮食主权由龟族创立的文西三姐妹支持开发农业系统计划这项创新研究将整合一个以文化为中心的环境路线图。社区对粮食主权和可持续性的投入可以分享和传播给其他人受环境影响的国家根据我们的研究制定环境公共卫生行动计划发现。