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Book (stand-alone)In Brief: Indigenous Peoples' food systems
Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front line of climate change
2023Also available in:
No results found.This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems, in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, Indigenous Peoples’ governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples' languages. While enhancing the learning on Indigenous Peoples' food systems, it will raise awareness on the need to enhance the protection of Indigenous Peoples' food systems as a source of livelihood for the 476 million Indigenous inhabitants in the world, while contributing to the Zero Hunger Goal. In addition, the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) and the UN Food Systems Summit call on the enhancement of sustainable food systems and on the importance of diversifying diets with nutritious foods, while broadening the existing food base and preserving biodiversity. This has been a characteristic of Indigenous Peoples' food systems for hundreds of years, and it can provide answers to the current debate on sustainable food systems and resilience. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetIndigenous Peoples in the Asia-Pacific region
Factsheet on Indigenous Women for Asia and the Pacific
2018Also available in:
No results found.The factsheet gives a brief overview of indigenous peoples in the Asia and the Pacific region, which is home to the largest number of indigenous people with 70 percent of the 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. They share a strong connection to their lands and have developed a rich body of traditional knowledge on agro biodiversity and preservation of endangered seeds that enriches all. However, across the Asia Pacific indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable and marginalized peoples. Recent estimates indicate that indigenous peoples make up approximately 5 percent of the global population and they comprise about 15 percent of the global extreme poor. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has long realized that in order to achieve its mandate of eradicating food and nutrition insecurity and poverty through sustainable agricultural development and natural resource management, development efforts must include farmers, fisherfolks and forest dependent people, including indigenous peoples, as key actors and partners. Indigenous peoples in the region include tribal peoples, hill tribes, aboriginal people and ethnic minorities. Irrespective of their legal status or the way in which countries refer to them, many indigenous peoples of Asia, experience non-recognition of their cultural identity.
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