Source
https://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/content/hua-parakore-indigenous-food-sovereignty-initiative-and-hallmark-excellence-food-and-product — original source (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)
Context: thesis · mātauranga Māori food practice (D02 x I03 mapping cell)
Summary
A Māori-authored, peer-reviewed account of Hua Parakore, a kaupapa Māori food-growing and verification system developed by Te Waka Kai Ora (the National Māori Organics authority). For the thesis it answers how Māori food practice relates to permaculture: it is a self-defined indigenous knowledge system, grounded in mātauranga Māori, that shares core principles with permaculture but is articulated on its own terms and does not derive from or reference permaculture.
Key claims
- claim: "Hua Parakore is 'an indigenous verification and validation system for mahinga kai (food and product production) that is initiated and driven by Te Waka Kai Ora (National Māori Organics' authority). It is a kaupapa Māori framework grounded in the mātauranga (Māori knowledge) continuum. [verified verbatim against the retrieved full text]"
source_location: "Abstract + Introduction."
- claim: "Hua Parakore 'aligns with closed systems of production with zero or minimal inputs, works in harmony with nature and promotes self-reliance and self-sustaining practices, thereby contributing to indigenous food security and food sovereignty in Aotearoa.' Keywords: 'food sovereignty, indigenous organics, Hua Parakore, kaupapa Māori.' [verified verbatim against the retrieved full text]"
source_location: "Abstract + keywords."Thesis use
- Q2 verdict: COGNATE PRINCIPLES, DISTINCT and SELF-DEFINED SYSTEM. Māori food practice (māra kai, and its formalisation as Hua Parakore) shares core principles with permaculture, closed loops, minimal inputs, working in harmony with nature, self-reliance and long-term sustainability. But it is a mātauranga-Māori / kaupapa-Māori system in its own right; this Māori-authored source frames it through whakapapa and food sovereignty and does not reference or derive from permaculture.
- The comparison “Māori food practice is permaculture” is NOT established in the Māori-authored literature, and that is itself the finding. The project may legitimately note the consonance of principles, but must not present Māori practice as a form of permaculture, nor permaculture as subsuming it, that would be the appropriation error running in the other direction (the exact inverse risk).
- Pairs with the te ao Māori values anchor LIT_132 and the permaculture-lineage review LIT_133.
Research targets
No new research targets.
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Referenced by
Sources (1): LIT_012