Register to the UN Food System Pre-summit Affiliated Session - The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems: Collective evidence gathered by Indigenous Peoples to contribute to the UN Food Systems Summit.
23/07/2021
Indigenous Peoples at the forefront of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit: “Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are a game-changing solution to ensure more sustainable food systems”
27/07/2021
During the UN Food Systems Pre-summit in Rome, Indigeno...
New FAO publication highlights the actions of Indigenous youth in local food systems during times of adversity
13/10/2021
Even though Indigenous Peoples’ practices have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, climat...
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Watch the Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & climate change in the Polar Oceans side-event at Cryosphere Pavilion COP-26
06/11/2021
Climate change is affecting fisheries and food systems worldwide, and the Polar Oceans are no exception. Ocean warming and acidificati...
Rethinking hierarchies of evidence for sustainable food systems.
18/11/2021
Indigenous Peoples’ and other traditional knowledge systems are deemed ‘unscientific’ when assessed against conventional hierarchies of evidence. Science–policy processes building on the commitments of the UN Food Systems Summit must ensure that due recognition, acceptance and prom...
Read the Mongabay series: Indigenous Peoples' food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind!
13/01/2022
A series covering 6 key, resilient Indigenous Peoples’ food systems from around the world w...
Indigenous Peoples’ resilience and adaptation in face of the COVID-19 crisis
04/02/2022
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Young people reconnecting to ancestral food systems
10/02/2022
Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Natural Resources Rights in the Context of COVID-19: Tends and Experiences from the Ground for Building Back Better
23/03/2022
Condolences for Dr. Khadija Catherine Razavi
20/04/2022
The Indigenous Peoples Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expresses its condolences to the family of Dr. Khadija Catherine Razavi and CENESTA.
Dr. Razavi was an ...
Condolences for Dr. Ouayara Koné
20/04/2022
Condolences for the family of Dr. Ouayara Koné
The Indigenous Peoples Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expresses its condolences to the Kel Tamasheq people and the family of Dr. Ouayara Koné
Dr. Ouayara Koné was a veterina...
FPIC for Climate Action: Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples as guardians for biodiversity
26/04/2022
New York / Online – A side event to the Twenty-First Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) identified the current challenges and good practices in the implementation of Free, Prior, and In...
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...