The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have been working together to raise awareness about the importance of protecting Indigenous Peoples land, territories and resource rights in Asia, as a pathway for sustainable and equitable social-economic development that leaves no one behind. As part of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, this side...

Mariah Gladstone’s childhood laid the perfect foundations for the work she does these days, breathing new life into Indigenous Peoples’ food traditions through her online cooking show Indigikitchen. With her approach to sustainable diets, making use of pulses and other ancestral foods, Mariah became a Champion for the World Food Forum, a youth-led initiative launched by FAO and a global network of partners, to empower young people to transform agrifood systems for a better food future.  On the Blackfeet Reservation where Mariah was raised, in the wind-whipped ruggedness of the northwestern state of Montana, her dad and grandpa carved out a...

As the final event in a webinar series on Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) for COVID-19 prevention along the food supply chain, this webinar will discuss the value and application of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge throughout the COVID-19 crisis and explore opportunities for replication in other contexts. Participants will deliberate on the role of traditional knowledge in the sustainability and resilience of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and the disproportionate challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples during...

A series covering 6 key, resilient Indigenous Peoples’ food systems from around the world was published by Mongabay. Based on the award-winning, FAO- Bioversity International publication, Indigenous Peoples’ food systems: Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front line of climate change (2021).   The report provides an overview on the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems, in terms of...

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 prominence are given to traditional knowledge. Not all evidence is created equal. Recent decades have seen the development of numerous hierarchies of evidence, which attempt to rank different research methods according to the strength of their findings, and thus provide a sound and defensible foundation for science-based policy development. The first formal hierarchies of evidence emerged in the clinical sciences to facilitate assessments of the...