The HLPE-FSN report on Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems examines how these systems sustain nutrition, biodiversity, livelihoods and cultural continuity, and the pressures threatening their future. Its analysis connects food with territorial rights, customary governance and the transmission of knowledge across generations.

The report identifies three objectives: preserving functioning systems, restoring those under pressure or disruption, and identifying lessons for the transformation of other food systems. It emphasizes Indigenous Peoples’ agency and the recognition of their knowledge systems as valid in their own terms, independent of and complementary to scientific knowledge.

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The contribution of current donors of the HLPE-FSN - the European Union, the Swiss Confederation, the French Republic, and the Principality of Monaco - is gratefully acknowledged.