Introduction. Transformative public health must move from its historically overly Eurocentric
and professionally driven orientation towards local-contextualised, community-based health …

“Raising the Dust” investigates the socioecological aspects of traditional medicine in the
Mulanje Mountain Biosphere Reserve, in the south of Malawi. It seeks to understand how …

Kaupapa Māori is literally a Māori way. It is a response to the colonization in Aotearoa New
Zealand that has seen Māori marginalized in our own lands, as evidenced by widespread …

The choice of title is regrettable enough, but the article itself is also problematic. Hawkins'
argument is that obesity among Mãori is due to the postcolonial adoption of a European diet …

Background In countries where the majority of undernourished people are smallholder
farmers, there has been interest in agricultural interventions to improve nutritional outcomes …

Hunger and inadequate nutrition are ongoing concerns in rural Malawi and are exemplified
in traditional proverbs. Traditional proverbs and common expressions offer insight into …

From a Māori (Indigenous to New Zealand) perspective, health is not confined to the
treatment of illness but also includes the philosophical concepts, structures and cultural …

Cooking bananas (matooke) are a main staple in central Uganda and are very important to
well-being and health. Recently, matooke have also been associated with micronutrient …

Path-breaking scholarship has described how corporate control of food production and
distribution is implicated in the global emergence of diets heavy in fats, meats and sugars …

A nurse-assisted, community-led health initiative, part of a Canadian-Irish project called
'Transformative Praxis: Malawi', has been developed with the aim of empowering community …