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  1. Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge

    Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.

    By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026

    Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation

    "Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.

    "The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.

    "In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.

    "Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'

    "That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.

    "They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.

    Elders as teachers

    "Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.

    "None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.

    " 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.

    "Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."

    Read more:
    earth.com/lifestyle/nutrition-

    #SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods

  2. It's Friday, and that means it's time for #LetterboxdFriday. Watched a bunch this week, but my #Last4Watched here is a mix.. free to watch on YouTube stuff - some short, some not - some strange 70s stuff, etc. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is super weird, man 😂 And finally, the making of Wildflowers doc!

    #movies #films #ShortFilms #film #Letterboxd #TomPetty

  3. #Vacationland #FilmFestival this weekend in #BiddefordME! Highlights include "#StolenSprings" (about #PolandSpring and #BigWater), "Invisible" (about life with #ChronicIllness), and "An Extraordinary Place" (#WMPG documentary with my buddy, #DJShaxx !), all in a restored historic (and haunted) theatre!

    2nd Vacationland Film Festival
    August 21-24, 2025
    Biddeford City Theater

    citytheater.org/vacationland-f

    #ShortFilms #IndieFilms #MaineFilmmakers #MaineEvents

  4. 🇩🇪 Wir sind gestern beim Curtas #Kurzfilm-Festival in Vila do Conde, #Portugal, eingetroffen und haben großartige Beiträge im internationalen Wettbewerb gesehen. 👌

    🇵🇹 Chegámos ontem ao festival #Curtas #VilaDoConde e vimos excelentes obras na competição internacional. 😍

    🇬🇧 We've arrived at the Curtas Vila do Conde festival yesterday and saw some great #shortfilms inside the international competition. 👍

    Curtas Vila do Conde 📽 festival.curtas.pt

  5. Merkt Euch das Datum! 🗓️

    Am Freitag, 23. August, zeigen wir im #Filmklubb in #Offenbach bei unserer #Sommernacht eine Auswahl von #Kurzfilme|n, die sich anlässlich des 50. Jahrestags der #Nelkenrevolution aus verschiedenen Perspektiven der #Revolution in #Portugal nähert. 🔆

    Erste Informationen findet Ihr hier 🎥 lusofest.de/23-08-2024-lusofes

    #FilmklubbOF #april25 #abril25 #lusofest #shortfilms #kino

  6. #vidivaanam (A new Dawn) is #shortfilm that I had the pleasure to direct. With some incredible artists in front of, and behind the camera. It was launched online by #PrabhuDeva & #santhoshnarayanan. Watch it here
    youtu.be/qT1iRGx3TvQ

    #shortfilms #environment #health