Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
"Indigenous food and life wisdom did not receive the deserved value and affirmation on the identity of intangible heritage domestically. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the first time included food crlture into the registration in 2010. It indicated that the value of food culture was not simply the maintenance of ethnic identity and life memory, but the formed diet, ingredients, commensal group, and food landscape were the wisdom worth sharing, owning and learning together by all human beings. Taking it as an opportunity, registered countries, like France and Japan, reaffirm the value of food culture as well as inherit the traditional food culture and activate local communities through traditional crop rehabilitation, food and agriculture education, community development, tourism experience, and media hype. Food culture vertically links the past, the present, and the future as well as horizontally connects various forms of modern social development.
A “return” fad appears in indigenous tribes in recent years, particularly the diet. Young and middle-aged indigenous people return to tribes and, based on own-farming, develop cultural food and life with eco-friendly land. It is considered as the right time to promote food cultural heritage. By a three-year period, this study intends to explore the possibility of indigenous people in Taiwan developing traditional food culture. It aims to understand the conservation of indigenous food cultural heritage in Taiwan dnd the possible potential in the first year. The experiences in the management of food intangible heritage in other countries are understood in the second year to establish the indicators suitable for the indigenous food cultural heritage indentity in Taiwan. Discussions on the maintenance and activation of indigenous food cultural heritage are poposed in the third year for the promotion and application."
Results/Contributions
This research aims to explore the potential of the preservation of Taiwanese indigenous food heritages, to construct the organic conceptural framework and the sustainable ways of food heritage preservation. During the implementation of the project, we are cooperating with the Taiwan Indigneous College Promotion Association, an indigenous NGO organization, to held five "Indigenous Food Heritage Education" workshops in five ethnic groups across the country. A total of 150 indigenous people were trained to become seeds to promote the concept of food heritagge.
Keywords
food heritagefood sovereigntyfood and farming education
Contact Information
張瑋琦
cihekkating@gmail.com