Jessica Milgroom

Over the last five years, Jessica has been working as a freelance researcher, lecturer, facilitator and editor. She specialises in topics including the nexus of healthy food, land and communities, sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, policy processes, access to natural resources and resettlement.

Harvesting wild rice

Harvesting is an act of indigenous food sovereignty

Rather than seeing food sovereignty as a destination, we see it as a pathway made up of everyday acts of resistance and reparation accessible to everyone. 

December 2, 2022

indigenous land

Putting Indigenous knowledge into practice for climate change: the Tribal Adaptation Menu

This article describes a tool called the Tribal Adaptation Menu that provides a set of concrete, practical strategies, approaches and tactics for how to incorporate indigenous thinking into planning, policy, research and interventions for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.

November 17, 2022

Women as seedkeepers

Linking food and feminisms: learning from decolonial movements

Feminist movements that are anti-racist, decolonial, anti- and post-colonial, including indigenous feminism, offer other ways of thinking about the link between feminism and food. Specifically borne from the context of Turtle Island and Abya Yala, decoloniality offers a particularly powerful lens.

March 8, 2021