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Exploring ethnic foodscape in food desert: the case of Kolasib, Northeast India

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Title Exploring ethnic foodscape in food desert: the case of Kolasib, Northeast India
 
Creator Chaudhary, K P
Lallawmkimi, Michelle C
Zothansiami, Carolyn
Adhiguru, P
Singh, P K
Pandey, D K
 
Subject Ethnic foodscape
Food desert
Indigenous food system
Pandemic
 
Description 92-98
Of late, „Food deserts‟,— places where there are no supermarkets for residents in the locality—are triggering policy debates among the policy-makers, academics, activists and media and advocating policy-led interventions to establish accessible new supermarkets. However, in some food deserts, local communities may traditionally follow their own indigenously adapted approaches for consumption of healthy diets. In this paper, we contend that policy-makers sometimes rather than strengthening in-situ opportunities may even rattle low-cost healthy food access pathways by new supermarket mediations. Based on qualitative tools, i.e., focused group discussion (FGD), the current study has delved into the availability of range of ethnic traditional cuisines from the foodscape of Kolasib, generally consumed by the Lushai tribe in Mizoram, Northeast India. Our study proposes new boulevards for conducting research and possible provision of financial impetus to prevailing community-based practices for establishing food banks and leveraging farm-to-market opportunities.
 
Date 2023-04-13T13:02:39Z
2023-04-13T13:02:39Z
2023-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/61750
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v22i1.47762
 
Language en
 
Relation A23L 3/00
A23L 5/00
A23L 25/00
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.22(1) [January 2023]