Indigenous women leaders from different regions of Peru met in the city of Lima to participate in the face-to-face seminar of the Leadership School of Indigenous Women, a joint initiative of the International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF-FIMI) and FAO. 13 indigenous women representatives of organizations related to women empowerment, nutrition, agriculture and other fields came from diverse regions of the mountain and forest areas of the country to learn about food security, nutrition and human rights. This capacity building programme has also been devised to teach women advocacy tools that will enable them to promote actions in support of food security...

The 25 indigenous women leaders who participated in the Human Rights, Food Security and Nutrition capacity-building programme in Bolivia, developed jointly by FAO and the International Forum of Indigenous Women (FIMI), finalized the face-to-face phase of the trainings having made advocacy plans and well as enabled a space for socialization of ideas among the participants.    In this phase, the knowledge acquired during the virtual period was consolidated, as...

More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City from the 16th  to the 20th  of November to take part in the VII Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women from the Americas. Main objectives of the meeting were to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.  Among other personalities, the gathering counted the presence of Diego Recalde, FAO representative in Guatemala, Rosalina Tuyuc,...

Indigenous peoples can play a critical role in the fight against hunger, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Given their invaluable traditional knowledge, the FAO says indigenous peoples can be key partners in alleviating food insecurity, as well as the attainment of some of the other sustainable development goals. Veronica Reeves spoke with Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa, an FAO Advocacy Officer, and asked him what role indigenous peoples and communities can play in reaching the global goal on hunger. Listen to the podcast here. 

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...