Traditional foods from native groups represent culturally significant ecological practices, and often provide significant nutritional value ( Joseph and Turner, 2020). Indigenous food systems are committed to ensuring a balance between communities and their environments, where diets are related to local ecosystems and to a culturally appropriate disposition of ingredients. We conclude that the characteristics of the Kumiai traditional food system not only strengthen their cultural identity and community economies, but also present potential solutions to the problem of food system sustainability by way of wild food resource management, as well as containing elements of a strategy for improving the health of community members.
Present-day Kumiai recognize that their traditional diet was more nutritious and more connected with nature than their current diet, and express concern over transmitting existing knowledge about it to younger generations. This qualitative study describes the traditional food system of a Kumiai community in Baja California, and the ways in which the Kumiai have continually adapted their use and management of wild food resources to different food culture influences, demographic changes and contemporary food preferences. Traditional foods, once central to the diets of different cultures, are losing relevance as knowledge about food and its natural ecosystem deteriorates. 6Department of Sciences, Environmental Education Specialty, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico.5Oceanographic Research Institute, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico.4Department of Social Science and Communication, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico.3Department of Health Care, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico.2El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico.1Doctoral Program in Environment and Development, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico.
Carolina Gutierrez † 1 Christine Alysse von Glascoe † 2 * Miriam Bertran † 3 Nelly Calderon † 4 Mariana Villada-Canela † 5 Juana Claudia Leyva † 6
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