Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo

• Main Authors: Kavitha Ganesan, Anantha Raman Govindasamy, Jane Wong Kon Ling, Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman, Kennedy Aaron Aguol, Jamsari Hashim, Bilcher Bala
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/1/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/2/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/; http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3734

In this paper we focus on the Lundayeh indigenous minority in Long Pasia, Sabah by examining how their traditional food practices help them navigate environmental challenges. Deforestation and logging threaten the very core of the Lundayeh identity because the community’s livelihood as subsistence f...