Food systems and their normative goal of achieving food security remain a robust global agenda. However, with the shifts toward a sustainable food system, there is an increasing interest in consolidating evidence on multiple dimensions of the food system. This article is an empirically grounded argument for using intergenerational relations to expand understanding of food systems by looking beyond the usual security outcomes and emphasising social welfare outcomes. Drawing on ethnographic research in an indigenous village in western India, I examine a rural, local food system and the transformations therein because of various socio-economic drivers, including changing livelihood opportunities. Evidence shows growing generational solidarity, with some positive effects for environmental sustainability and for revaluing indigenous culture, including traditional food systems, and generating new local livelihoods. Simultaneously, though, tensions are being created around intergenerational autonomy and cultural expressions. Moreover, the food transition has resulted in a decline in the nutritional content of local diets, which has health implications. This article raises questions whether trends towards sustainability and resilience are necessarily mutually reinforcing for natural resource-dependent indigenous communities and our natural environment.

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检验代际关系在粮食系统中的作用：来自印度西部的证据

粮食系统及其实现粮食安全的规范目标仍然是一个强有力的全球议程。然而，随着向可持续粮食系统的转变，人们越来越有兴趣整合粮食系统多个方面的证据。本文是基于经验的论点，通过超越通常的安全结果并强调社会福利结果，利用代际关系来扩大对粮食系统的理解。我利用印度西部一个土著村庄的民族志研究，研究了农村当地的粮食系统以及由于各种社会经济驱动因素（包括生计机会的变化）而发生的转变。有证据表明，代际团结日益增强，对环境可持续性、重新重视包括传统粮食系统在内的本土文化以及创造新的当地生计产生了一些积极影响。但与此同时，代际自治和文化表达方面的紧张局势正在形成。此外，食物转型导致当地饮食的营养成分下降，这对健康产生影响。本文提出了这样的问题：对于依赖自然资源的土著社区和我们的自然环境而言，可持续性和复原力的趋势是否必然是相辅相成的。