01/01/2023

GONDI version - Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

आपन खुसे देवल सलख हक मन के जिमेदारी से लागू करेक ले खाएक ले बांचाये के राखेक कर राष्ट्रीय मामला मन मे जमीन, मछरी आउर जंगल कर धन कर हक

01/01/2022

SADRI version - Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

हक्क गही राजी खतरी संसाधन गही मालिकाना हक्क ही विषयनू चिचका ई कोहां दिसा-पेसका, ओंटे अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय कागद हिके, जे की अलग-अलग राजी चलाबाऊर ही मझीनू आपसी कत्था-बरता अरा समझौता ती कमतारकी रअई. ईद ओंटे खल्ल, इंजो धरना अरा टोडंग सम्पत्ति गे हक्क

01/01/2022

KURUX version - Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Policy Brief: COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples

07/10/2024

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 percent of the extreme poor. Indigenous peoples are not a homogenous group. They live in over 90 countries, in rural and urban areas, in forests,...

Technical paper on Sustainable Development Goal 16 and Indigenous Peoples’ Collective Rights to Land, Territories and Resources

07/10/2024

In 2014, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established. The final resolution “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (United Nations General Assembly, 2015) refers to Indigenous Peoples 6 times, three times in the political declaration; two in the targets under Goal 2 on Zero Hunger (target 2.3)...

The Right to Food Guidelines and Indigenous Peoples: an Operational Guide

07/10/2024

This Guide aims to assist indigenous peoples and their organizations on how to use the Voluntary Guidelines to promote their own interests in the area of food security. It also intends to increase awareness and improve understanding among development workers as well as United Nations staff, government officials and indigenous...

The Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and Indigenous Peoples

07/10/2024

This guide is designed for indigenous fishing communities and for people in the development field working with indigenous fishing communities. Its objective is to provide guidance on impacts and benefits of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (hereinafter the ‘Code’) from an indigenous peoples’ perspective. This guide: a) provides...

A territorial development vision oriented to indigenous peoples: a possible path

06/05/2012

Indigenous peoples amount to one third of the 900 million human beings who live in rural areas in extreme poverty.3 They are frequently discriminated against, and many do not enjoy full legal, social, or cultural recognition. Analysing and addressing the circumstances that affect marginalized populations such as indigenous peoples is...

Case study on EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR HILL TRIBES IN NORTHERN THAILAND - Implications for sustainable rural development

02/02/2002

Education, for FAO, is a prerequisite to building a food-secure world, reducing poverty and conserving and enhancing natural resources. This research is as an attempt to analyse the impact of support activities by the Royal Thai Government in promoting education opportunities for hill tribe people. Government initiatives on hill tribe...

Cultural indicators of Indigenous Peoples' food and agro-ecological systems

01/01/2011

Indigenous Peoples have expressed growing concern in international forums that most development planning aims to maximize economic development and rarely takes into account the reciprocal culture-land/resource relationships that are fundamental to Indigenous Peoples’ food and livelihood systems and their well-being. These issues were taken up by the Indigenous Peoples’ Consultation...

Fire management. Voluntary guidelines: Principles and strategic actions

07/10/2024

The present voluntary guidelines set out a framework of legally non-binding principles and internationally accepted strategic actions. They address the cultural, social, environmental and economic dimensions of fire management at all levels. In accordance with recommendations of the International Wildland Fire Summit in October 2003, the Ministerial Meeting on Sustainable...

Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples' Issues

07/10/2024

The purpose of the present guidelines is to assist the United Nations system to mainstream and integrate indigenous peoples’ issues in processes for operational activities and programmes at the country level. The guidelines set out the broad normative, policy and operational framework for implementing a human rights-based and culturally sensitive...

Indigenous Peoples’ Communication for Development. Collaborative efforts towards self-determined sustainable development

07/10/2024

FAO and other UN agencies recognize that communication is fundamental to promote sustainable development. Within this framework, Communication for Development (ComDev), a participatory communication approach that combines a variety of processes and tools ranging from rural radio to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), can contribute to IPs’ development by: (i)...

Indigenous and Tribal peoples: Building on biological and cultural diversity for food and livelihood security

07/10/2024

When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted in 2000, the international community made an unprecedented pledge to meet the needs of the world’s poor and to safeguard them against the threats of the twenty-first century.2 Leaders of 147 states reaffirmed the principles of poverty reduction, democratic governance, and human...

Indigenous Knowledge of Edible Tree Products - The Mungomu Tree in Central Mozambique

07/10/2024

Schinziophyton Rautanenii, known as Mungomu in Macossa, is a tree that produces a nut best known as one of the staples of the diet of the Kung Khoi-San tribe in the Kalahari Desert. The nut, known in English as the Manketti Nut, is known to supply up to three quarters...

Shifting cultivation, livelihood and food security

07/10/2024

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007. Since then, the importance of the role that indigenous peoples play in economic, social and environmental conservation through traditional sustainable agricultural practices has been gradually recognized. Consistent with the...

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Nutrition, Botany and Use

07/10/2024

The primary purpose of this book is to describe and to reference the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Since it is recognized that Canadian political boundaries are not honored by plants in their biological...

Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication

07/10/2024

The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) represent the first ever internationl instrument dedicated to small-scale fisheries. They represent a global consensus on principles and guidance for small-scale fisheries governance and development. They were developed for small-scale fisheries...

Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of the national food security (Right to Food Guidelines)

07/10/2024

Adopted by the 127th Session of the FAO Council, November 2004. The objective of the Voluntary Guidelines is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, in order to achieve the goals...