Collaborative study looks at eight Indigenous Peoples’ food systems in Amazon, Sahel, Himalayas, Pacific Islands and Arctic, documenting unique capacity to conserve biodiversity and foster resilient food security and calls for recognizing land rights, and traditional practices.   June 25, 2021, Rome -  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Alliance of Bioversity...

Friday 25 June, at 12:30 pm, CET 

“Sustainability and resilience are two of the main elements of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems”, stressed Marcela Villarreal, FAO Director of Partnerships and UN collaborations.  FAO had a robust presence at the 2021 European Development Days (EDD21), the European Commission-led annual forum dedicated to the most pressing challenges in international development. The programme brought the development community together to share ideas and inspire solutions to achieve a sustainable future. As a...

Indigenous Peoples are responsible for the protection of 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity. However, the role of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and territorial management practices as key elements to preserve biodiversity while generating food in sustainable ways is not well recognized yet. Since 2009, FAO is working with Indigenous Peoples and research centres to generate evidence-based information on the sustainable, nutrition and resilient elements of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems. 

The Global Forum on Indigenous Youth, co-organized by FAO, Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC) and the Indigenous Champions of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, establishes a space of dialogue between Indigenous youth representatives, member countries and other stakeholders to discuss their challenges, priorities and prospects related to food security and climate change, to feed their recommendations into the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. The Forum results from a 2017 recommendation from UNDESA to FAO through the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which built upon FAO´s work with the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus in 2017 and the...