Improving food and nutritional diversity based on the diversity of traditional plant-based
foods is an important dietary strategy to address the challenges of rapidly emerging diet-and
lifestyle-linked noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) of indigenous communities
worldwide. Restoration of native ecosystems, revival of traditional food crop cultivation, and
revival of traditional knowledge of food preparation, processing, and preservation are
important steps to build dietary support strategies against an NCD epidemic of contemporary …