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“Food Markets and
Society III” – Coming to the
Table.
Presented by Dr Jessica Hutchings.
Research Team: Dr Jessica Hutchings, Katrina Taupo, and Alex Barnes
Te Wāhanga, NZCER
Project Focus (part 1)
• How can dialogue with
diverse Māori communities
support sustainable
decision-making on future
food technologies?
• Trial dialogic mode with
Māori communities
Project Focus (part 2)
• Deepen diverse Māori
understandings of
biotechnology,
nanotechnologies,
sustainable agriculture
and functional foods as
they relate to future foods.
• Research design was pre-
determined and not
kaupapa Māori based. This
presented some challenges
for Māori participants (more
on this finding later)
Project Limitations
“We are kaitiaki for our tamariki and mokopuna and if we
cannot be the exemplars of how to cook, where to source
kai, the best way to ensure sustainability for our next
generation then kei te aha mātou? This kōrero has helped
reinforce our strong beliefs.” (Community Māori participant)
• Negotiating kaupapa
Māori approaches and
methods within the wider
frame of the research
• Cohort size was small –
16 Māori participants –
cannot generalise from
these results
•
Project Limitations
“I am even more suspicious of any outcomes for new technologies, and the
ability to make these outcomes work for Māori, Pacific Island and indigenous
peoples. Will these technologies actually matter to our people?” (Community
Māori participant)
Iwi Māori, Western Science and Dialogue – Understanding the context
• Views are polarised:
“media fuelled”, “no
middle ground”
• Domination of western
science through the
colonising process
• Valuing and validating
indigenous knowledge
– Pūtaiao when
thinking about future
foods
Overall rankings Maori and Non Maori
7
Heart of the Matter
Workshops (Well) N=8
• Most cohesive layering of narrative and deep sense of
food connected to local environment, whanau and
traditional knowledges; ‘kai is more than food, there is a
whakapapa component, a matauranga component’.
• Emphasised need for proper consultation, including
kaupapa Maori processes, accessible and relevant
information, and for Maori to be at the fore and centre for
any decision-making for future food technologies.
• Large scale sustainable agriculture acceptable, future
investment decisions should be underpinned by
consideration of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, WAI 262, and the
impact to the environment both physically, and in terms
of matauranga Māori.
Future Foods & Māori Well-
being: Our Findings
• Value Te Tiriti o Waitangi – WAI 262
Claim
• Work within tikanga Māori and
mātauranga Māori spaces
• Invest in Māori decision-making
models
• Concern and threat of biolcolonialism,
‘bioprospecting’, ‘biodiscovery’ and
‘Free Trade Agreements’.
• Concerns about Intellectual Property
Rights (IPRs)
• Need to decolonise Māori
‘hegemonic’ decision-making
Future Foods & Māori Well-
being: Our findings
• Support sustainable
agriculture: “This reflects
how I think our relationship
with the natural world
should be. It’s about the
land, it’s about the plants,
the kai” (Scientist, Māori
participant)
• Build cultural capability!
The findings re-affirm our previous experiences about
kai, mātauranga Māori and the use new technologies.
“...how can you contribute to maintenance of
Papatūānuku as well as creating new foods and
technologies?” (Community, Māori participant)
“...the whakapapa of food groups go straight back to
Māori in which case Māori would be a serious
contender and joint partner in the creation of new
foods and technology for resources.” (Community,
Māori participant)
Future Foods & Māori
Well-being: Our findings
Futre Foods and Māori Well-being: Our findings
• Investment decisions
driven by whānau, hapū
and iwi that act for
diverse Māori realities
• Retain food chain
diversity
• More investment in the
socio-cultural aspects of
scientific research
Images used with artists permission. Source: Smith and
Reynolds. 2002. Aue Genes and Genetics. Wanganui Iwi
Law Centre: Wanganui.
What’s New?
• Imposition of Western
dialogue models does
not work for many
Māori
• Uphold hui, wānanga,
whitiwhiti kōrero
methods
• Acknowledge levels of
distrust
• Develop ‘critical’ Māori
scientists
Future Foods and Diverse Māori Communities : What next?
• Clear Māori positioning: Māori
must be framing research and
science decision-making in future
foods
• Invest in: Māori research,
relationships with whānau, hapū
and consumer groups, “cultural
competency”
• Capacity build: Professional
development for scientists, mix of
“hard” and “soft” sciences
Whakapaa Mai: Contact Details
• Te Wāhanga, NZCER,
www.nzcer.org.nz/te-wahanga
• Ph +644 384 7939
• Dr Jessica Hutchings: