From the 3rd of November until tomorrow, more than 5,000 food professionals and up to 640 delegates belonging to 140 indigenous peoples are gathered in Shillong (India) celebrating their food culture and discussing ways to join their ancestral knowledge and expertise in sustainable food production. "We are here to learn from each other, to collectively interpret the future we want” asserted Phrang Roy, the North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society (NESFAS) chairman and coordinator of Indigenous Partnership. This 5-day event is a celebration of the world’s human diversity, and in particular the value of indigenous peoples’ vision in which food...

The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition “FSN Forum” is an online venue for multi-stakeholder dialogue where policy decisions on food security and nutrition are collectively inspired, developed and linked with practice. The FSN Forum is facilitated by the Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) in FAO. The FSN Forum is hosting the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) online consultation which allows you to share your comments on the V0 draft of its latest report "Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition, including the role of livestock".  This online consultation is part of the report...

FAO is actively collaborating with youth. Just last month at “Mobilizing Generation Zero Hunger”, a high level side event to the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, the Director General encouraged young people to be the “Zero Hunger Generation” as the SDGs were formally adopted.

Do you know about an interesting sustainable soil management practice that improves soil health?  FAO, in the ambit of the International Year of Soils, is calling for your contribution to the farmers’ soil practices video contest. The central theme of the contest is: Farmers’ sustainable soil management practices for boosting healthy soils. The deadline for submissions is 12 October 2015.

Bangkok, Thailand. A new publication launched today is calling for better recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to shifting cultivation practices in countries of the Asia-Pacific region in order to ensure indigenous people are food-secure in coming years.