Publications
A series of documents relevant to Indigenous Peoples are shown below. These include the FAO Policy on Indigenous Peoples together with a series of Voluntary Guidelines and Principles approved by FAO Member Nations which apply to Indigenous Peoples.
Using the search box located at the right side of the page, there can be found a series of useful documents with information on collaboration between FAO and Indigenous Peoples. The list includes publications, papers and reports that can assist in identifying and engaging with Indigenous Peoples, facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues and strengthen cooperation.
The Maasai and Barbaig pastoral communities possess an enormous range of IK on animal health, forage plants and range management, which greatly increases animal survival and overall animal productivity, and thus household food security.
Despite its overwhelming potential, the knowledge of...
The Maasai and Barbaig pastoral communities possess an enormous range of IK on animal health, forage plants and range management, which greatly increases animal survival and overall animal productivity, and thus household food security.
Despite its overwhelming potential, the knowledge of...
The right to food is of particular importance to vulnerable groups, amongst which are indigenous peoples. This paper analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them....
Indigenous peoples, like everyone else, have a right to adequate food and a fundamental right to be free from hunger. This was stipulated in Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 and constitutes...
This study finds its origins in the field of biology and anthropology; and more precisely in ethno-botany. This discipline, which examines the dynamic relationship between humans and their natural environment, allows us to study the relationship between human groups in...