The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is the largest global gathering of Indigenous Peoples, taking place from 17-28 April 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Forum was established in 2000 with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. The theme of the 22nd session is “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”. We invite you to follow the official programme here: https://media.un.org/en/webtv A FAO delegation from...

The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems, endorsed by the FAO Committee on Agriculture at its 27th session in 2020, recently convened thanks to the generous support of the Norwegian government. Over 70 Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts worldwide gathered in FAO Rome, where they discussed and agreed on the urgent need for evidence generation that would influence policy-making related to Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems.

FAO published the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in Sardi & Kurukh, Indigenous languages mainly spoken in India today. In the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the FAO Indigenous Peoples Unit, the FAO Land Tenure Unit and FAO India coordinate efforts with Indigenous Peoples' organizations to translate the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests into different Indigenous languages.

Learn about the Garifuna people, a nation within nations, from President Egbert Higinio & Ambassador Cynthia Ellis! "I'd like the world to be honest in respecting Indigenous Peoples' knowledge. Look to Indigenous Peoples how they produce their food," emphasizes Egbert R. Higinio, the President of the Garifuna Nation of Belize. 

Thompson Rivers University – Knowledge Makers Program (KM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to implement a special program to strengthen the research and knowledge generation opportunities for and by Indigenous Women. We happily invite Indigenous Women from the seven socio-cultural regions to apply for this Special Edition of the Knowledge Makers Journal. This will be an opportunity for Indigenous Women globally to advance their research for Indigenous Women, Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems, and climate action.  The...