Beyond inclusion: Indigenous knowledge, food and water security, and climate resilience

Beyond inclusion: Indigenous knowledge, food and water security, and climate resilience

Adrianne Lickers Xavier and Hiliary Monteith explore the topics of Indigenous knowledge, food and water security, and climate resilience. Increasingly, health, food, and environmental policy recognize the interconnectedness of climate change, food systems, water security, and health. The pronounced impacts of climate change, including disruptions to ecosystems, agricultural practices, water availability, and traditional harvesting, compound food insecurity and adverse health outcomes, particularly for Indigenous communities. (1) However, despite some policy reform, dominant approaches often remain fragmented, emphasizing infrastructure, market-based food access, scientific monitoring, or adaptation technologies without adequately addressing colonial land dispossession, socioeconomic inequities, environmental degradation, and the governance structures that shape vulnerability in the first place.