Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa - Short Bio

Yon Fernández-de-Larrinoa is head of the Indigenous Peoples Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2014.  In the frame of his responsibilities, he co-coordinates the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems that he started in 2020, supported the creation of the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples food systems post UN summit and with Canada Started the Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples in Rome. He has been one of the main authors and coordinator of key publications by FAO on Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems, Matrifocal Societies and Labelling and Certification. He coordinated the inclusion of FPIC in FAO projects and programmes and designed the FAO manual on Free Prior and Informed Consent.  Yon joined FAO in 1998 as a policy officer, working in Latin America, and Asia, coordinating emergency operations in the tsunami, avian influenza, Peru earthquake and Haiti earthquake. In 2010, Yon joined the Partnerships and UN Collaboration division leading the FAO Civil Society team, co-authoring the strategy to engage with civil society and supporting the participation of civil society in the World Committee of Food Security. He co-founded the Pastoralists Knowledge-Hub in FAO. Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa is an agricultural economist with a MABD on entitlements and food security.

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