Marketplace recently featured the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative’s Associate Executive Director, Carly Griffith Hotvedt (Cherokee Nation) about Indian Country food and agriculture as well as topics discussed at the NCAI’s 2023 National Convention in New Orleans,

Here is an excerpt from the report:

Delegates also talked about shoring up tribal food supply chains, per Carly Griffith Hotvedt with the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative. 

“If we want to be sovereign and feed our own people, we need to have those means of getting food on the table from a processing perspective,” she said.