The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme has supported the Amerindian Peoples Association to design and implement Free, Prior, Informed Consent protocols as part of the Programme’s broader objective to ensure participation of forest communities in national forest governance dialogue. Empowering indigenous and forest-dependent communities to play an active role in national forest...

Ma Thi Ninh thought farming would be relatively easy. The Yen Duong area of Viet Nam where she lives has excellent, arable land and offers many sought-after products, including organic sticky rice, seasonal vegetables and bamboo used for traditional handicraft products. But once she started to farm and trade in...

Forests, and the communities who protect and manage them, are critical in tackling climate change and nature loss. From COP26, guest blogger Gustavo Sánchez explains why they can no longer be ignored in the distribution of climate finance and describes a new fund that gets money directly to local forest...

The narrative that ‘meat and milk are bad’ because livestock production is a major greenhouse gas emitter is widespread, promoted by international agencies, campaign groups, corporations and governments. This overarching narrative has led to generalised policy prescriptions, applicable to some western diets and to some forms of livestock production. Of...

Las transiciones hacia sistemas agroalimentarios justos, resilientes y sostenibles, requieren del re-conocimiento y re-valorización de sistemas tradicionales que han sido desarrollados y preservados por la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria (ACFC).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Alliance of Bioversity International and The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) released today a new study identifying hundreds of diverse plant and animal species that Indigenous Peoples around the world depend on and care for to generate food...

he 42nd session of the FAO Conference held from 14th to 18th June endorsed the proposal of an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026 by the Mongolian government and adopted the Resolution. The Conference recognized that a significant number of pastoralists in the world inhabit rangelands and that pastoralism is globally practiced in many different forms....

Esta publicación presenta diez experiencias de colaboración intercultural escalables que demuestran la importancia, eficiencia y efectividad de trabajar de la mano de hombres, mujeres y jóvenes de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe en la búsqueda de soluciones prácticas desarrolladas a partir de la sinergia entre...

MARIKINA CITY, PHILIPPINES – The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for farmers groups/cooperatives in the Philippines to sell their produce directly to consumers. On 3 May 2020, with the help of PAKISAMA, one of AFOSP-APFP partner organizations in the Philippines, their member organization Kababaihang Dumagat ng Sierrra Madre...

In recent years, the interests on the social world and the physical world of indigenous peoples have been on the increase, resulting in a gradual growth of literature on indigenous or tribal peoples of the world. Such works have provided an understanding on the situation of indigenous peoples. However, more...

There are 476 million indigenous peoples around the world, constituting 6.2 percent of the global population and, according to different sources, representing more than 19% of the extreme poor (ILO, 2019) of the world. Half of this population are women (approximately 240 million). Even though indigenous peoples represent 19 percent of...

Half of the 1.5 billion people globally who rely on forest landscapes for subsistence and cash income are women. Many see the benefits of participating in various forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs). These include both general community, smallholder farmer and indigenous people’s organisations and more specific women-only groups –...

In February 2020, more than 100 participants from nearly 30 countries gathered together for a week-long global learning exchange on agroecology.  The practitioners work at the intersection of policy, scientific research, grassroots movement-building, and natural farming practices. They were joined by 18 donors, a half-dozen advisors, and other agroecology allies.  The...

La Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB) es un espacio de coordinación e intercambio de autoridades territoriales que administran o influyen sobre las principales masas boscosas de Mesoamérica. Gobiernos indígenas y organizaciones forestales comunitarias que en la Alianza buscan fortalecer su propio diálogo, enfocado en la gestión comunitaria de sus recursos...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

Myanmar falls within the center of the genetic diversity of many economically important crops, including wild and cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.). However, the majority of the genetic resources of Myanmar, particularly local varieties, and their distribution remain poorly understood. The present study was conducted to investigate the on-farm varietal diversity...

During the 2015-2020 period, the Ecuador country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented the "GEF Conservation and Well-being in Napo project". This initiative was part of an agreement between the provincial government of Napo and Ecuador's Ministry of Environment, and was funded by...

Introduces key debates and concepts about pastoralism, and explores the varying ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty around the world. Based on the work of the PASTRES programme, the course is aimed at students, practitioners and policy-makers. It is divided into 13 parts with a lecture, suggested readings and questions in...

En 2017, para dar continuidad a muchos años de colaboración entre el FIDA y Slow Food en temas de seguridad alimentaria, pueblos indígenas y jóvenes, el FIDA aprobó el proyecto Empoderar a los Pueblos Indígenas y a sus Comunidades para Defender y Promover el Patrimonio Alimentario, que Slow Food implementó durante los tres años siguientes. Su...