Indigenous Peoples’ Biocentric Restoration: How Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and food systems inform cosmogonic restoration processes
28/04/2022
New York City / Online – How can Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems inform global debates related to biocentric restoration, biodiversity conservation, climate change, and sustainable food systems? This was the central question discussed at a si...
Collective and tenure rights for sustainable Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems in the context of the 10th anniversary of the VGGT and the IYAFA 2022
05/05/2022
New York / Online – Despite the importance of Indigenous Peoples lands for biodiversity and their spiritual, social, cultural value as sources of identity, Indigenous Peoples’ rights over their lands have been historically disregarded. Tenure insecurity has...
FAO at the 21st Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
10/05/2022
These Takeaways from the 21st Session of UNPFII were prepared by FAO New York in consultation with FAO PSUI: https://www.fao.org/new-york/news/detail/en/c/1506511/
25 April, New York – The
FAO Publications recognized at Umeå food symposium
04/06/2022
Umeå, Sweden - The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards invited the FAO Indigenous Peoples Unit to the Umeå Food Symposium to present the publication entitled Indigenous Peoples’ food systems: insights on sustainability...
Indigenous Peoples' holistic and inclusive approaches to water at the Dushanbe Water Process
06/06/2022
Dushanbe - The Dushanbe Water Process 2nd High-Level International Conference on International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028” took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 6 - 9 June 2022. The Conference focused on how governments, the Unit...
From COAG to #COP27: Indigenous Peoples’ food systems for sustainable and resilient FoodSystems
12/07/2022
From COAG to COP27: Indigenous Peoples’ food systems for sustainable and resilient food systems
18/07/2022
Rome - A Committee on Agriculture COAG28 side event highlighted the game-changing nature of indigenous Peoples’ food systems, and drew lessons for transforming agrifood systems towards sustainability and resilience in light of COAG28 and COP2...
Join us for an inspiring Twitter Chat on Indigenous women on 9 August!
29/07/2022
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Join the celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples!
09/08/2022
The resilience of Indigenous youth
12/08/2022
The intrinsic connection between Indigenous Peoples and pollinators
25/08/2022
Istanbul, Türkiye - The 47th Apimondia International Apicultural Congress took place from 24. - 28. August 2022,focusing on apitherapy, bee biology, beekeping economy, beekeeping for rural development, bee health, pollination and ...
Thematic Dialogue: Family Farming and Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems
08/09/2022
Friday, 16 September 2022 | 12:00 – 13:30 CEST
Hybrid format: King Faisal Room, FAO HQ and Zoom Register here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A8d68wnDQs-3G422rJpmXg
Book launch: Labelling and certification schemes for Indigenous Peoples’ foods
08/09/2022
Join us for a book launch of the new publication: Labelling and certification schemes for Indigenous Peoples’ foods - Generating income while protecting and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ valu...
Out Now: Labelling and certification schemes for Indigenous Peoples' foods
09/09/2022
FAO and the Alliance of Bioversity-International and CIAT launch a new publication focused on Labelling and Certification Schemes for Indigenous Peoples' Food
12/09/2022
Rome / Online - FAO, the Alliance of Bioversity Internatio...
GIZ Future Forum embraces Indigenous Peoples' knowledge
14/09/2022
Potsdam - The Future Forum is GIZ’s annual, mainly internal, conference to develop and advance learning in sectoral topics. It is one of the major fora for internal staff development. This year, it was hosted under the topic “Rethinking Development for a Digital, Gree...
Family Farming and Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems: Together for a more sustainable food system
16/09/2022
Rome / Online - In the context of the First Global Forum of the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028, and the recent publication on “Labelling and certific...