I think the biggest thing is that they're not understood. Oftentimes, we look at primary agriculture as agriculture. In indigenous communities, that may be traditional harvesting. That might be a greenhouse or a community garden, just to get that food security and food sovereignty back in place.
Oftentimes, the programming is fit for conventional financial benchmarks, but those benchmarks don't exist in a lot of communities just due to.... I can think of certain programs that want the financial farming income and expense claim that was submitted for income tax, but nations don't submit those same forms. Therefore, at the first checkbox on eligibility, it's “not eligible” and they just move on.
The more voices that are around the table in the creation of those programs, instead of saying afterward, “By the way, here's a suite of programs that would be great for you to use,” and they see from the first three boxes that they're not eligible, or they're seen as not being eligible, and they just move on and it's not looked at.
