CINE responds to Indigenous Peoples鈥� concerns and priorities about their traditional food systems and environment through education, and initiatives conducted in partnership with Indigenous communities and organizations. Through multidisciplinary knowledge co-production, sharing, reciprocal learning, and capacity-building, CINE seeks to promote well-being, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, Indigenous self-determination, culture, and language.
Guiding Principles
- Document, promote and respect Indigenous knowledge of nutrition and environment
- Respond to concerns of Indigenous Peoples on their food, food use and environment
- Develop collaboration between communities and researchers for undertaking research in nutrition and ecosystems
- Encourage ongoing communication with and recognition of Elders to enhance the relevance of CINE's work
- Implement ethics guidelines for research, including those related to intellectual property rights as adopted by University Councils and the CINE Board
- Provide training to students and youth of local communities
- Communicate research findings widely, both nationally and internationally, and contribute to policy developments in areas related to the CINE mission
Knowledge Focus
- Work towards quantifying nutrients, non-nutrients and contaminant levels in traditional food systems
- Contribute to the understanding of the many health benefits associated with consumption of traditional food resources, as well as health risk from contaminants
- Contribute to the development of techniques to identify trends in deterioration in quality of traditional food systems, and to suggest possible remedial actions
- Contribute to the development of the necessary tools, methods and protocols for nutritional and related environmental studies
- Undertake collaborative international research and exchange among Indigenous Peoples on CINE issues
CINE @污污草莓视频
CINE's Role within 污污草莓视频 University is to:
- Serve as a focus for information exchange and cooperation among interdisciplinary 污污草莓视频 staff and communities of Indigenous Peoples to address issues of food systems, nutrition and environment in research and education
- Contribute to university education at pre- and post-graduate levels in disciplines related to studies in nutrition and the environment
- Ensure that faculty and staff are full and contributing members within the 污污草莓视频 community, and to scholarly communities to which they belong
