Facilitator: Yasmina Bouziane, Deputy Director, Office of Communications, FAO
12:30- 12:35 Spiritual ceremony
12:35- 13:00 High-level remarks
- QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO
- Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General, Alliance of Bioversity International and the Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- Anne Nuorgam, Sámi people, Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- H.E. Aksel Jakobsen, State Secretary of International Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
- High level government representative from the United States of America (TBC)
- H.E. Alexandra Bugailiskis, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the FAO, Canada and Chair of the informal Group of Friends for Indigenous Peoples in Rome
- Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO
13:00- 13:03 Video display
- Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen: The importance of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems in the World
13:03 - 13:13 The importance of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems series: From the McGill-FAO collaboration book to the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems
- Professor Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition at McGill University and Founding Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
- Professor Barbara A. Burlingame, Professor (adjunct) of Public Health Nutrition and Food Systems, Massey University, Former Chief in the FAO Nutrition Division.
13:13 - 13:28 Presentation of the publication: ¨Indigenous Peoples’ food systems: Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front line of climate change”
- Yon Fernández-de-Larrinoa, Chief, Indigenous Peoples Unit and Co-Coordinator of the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, FAO
- Edmond Dounias, Research Director, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)
13:28 - 13:35 Presentation of the methodology and field work
- Gennifer Meldrum, Food Environment and Consumer Behavior Lever, Alliance of Bioversity International and the Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- Anne Brunel, Indigenous Peoples’ food systems specialist, Indigenous Peoples Unit, FAO
13:35 - 13:38 Video display
- Food system of the Melanesian people in Baniata, Solomon Islands
13:38 - 14:08 Indigenous Peoples and field experts speaking about the profiles
Facilitator: Phrang Roy, Khasi people, The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty (TIP)
- Bhogtoram Mawroh, Khasi people, North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society (NESFAS) - Khasi food system, India
- Tero Mustonen, Snowchange Cooperative - Inari Sámi food system, Finland
- Aboubacrine Ag Mohamed Mitta & Iyor Ag Hamama, Réseau des Peuples Pasteurs du Sahel RPPS -Kel Tamasheq food system, Mali.
- Liseth Escobar Aucu, Fundación Omacha - Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua food system, Colombia
14:08 - 14:18 The way forward: Systemic approaches from Indigenous Peoples
- Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz, Ayuukjä'äy people, member of the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, Greenwich University (TBC)
- Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO
14:18 - 14:25 Questions & Answers
- Facilitator: Inka Saara Arttijeff, Indigenous Peoples Unit, FAO
14:25 - 14:30 Closing remarks
Marcela Villarreal, Director, Partnerships and UN Collaboration