The winter 2024–2025 issue includes a special section of articles from the Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship of the First Nations Development Institute, along with open-call articles on a wide range of food systems topics.

On our cover, we share a photo from the paper “Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law,” by Puanani Apoliona-Brown (to be published in December 2024). The photo depicts a Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana (PKO or ‘Ohana) press conference at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 31, 1977. PKO was a small group of Native Hawaiian activists who organized to stop the bombing of a sacred island that the U.S. Navy had used for target practice since World War II. Featured in the foreground are Leimomi Apoliona (left) & Dr. Emmett Aluli (right). The article author, Ms. Apoliona-Brown, is the daughter of Apoliona and is a Tribal Food Systems Research Fellow with the First Nations Development Institute.

Photo by Terry Luke that appeared in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin story about the press conference. The original photo was given to Leimomi Apoliona by the photographer and is used with her permission.