The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems
The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems is an innovative thinktank that pioneers new ways to create knowledge. Gathering Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts, it gives the same level of respect to academic and Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge. The latter is often disregarded by the scientific community and by policy makers, but it enshrines the game-changing solutions that the world needs.
Expertise of the members of the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples' food systems, ordered by prevalence:
- Indigenous Peoples' rights, governance and self-determined development
- Indigenous Peoples food security and nutrition
- Ecosystem management, biodiversity, biocultural diversity
- Co-creation of knowledge and interculturality
- Indigenous Peoples' health and resilience to climate change and environmental shocks
- Indigenous hunter-gatherers food systems
- Indigenous Peoples' foods composition
- Indigenous Peoples' fisheries
- Indigenous-led education
- Indigenous pastoralist food systems
The Global-Hub brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts from universities, research centres, Indigenous Peoples and UN agencies around the world to:
- Bridge knowledge gaps on Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems;
- Provide evidence-based information to policy discussions that affect Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems.
The flagship publications of the Global-Hub are the White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and the upcoming Collective Paper on the importance of Indigenous Peoples’ mobility, nomadism, transhumance, and collective rights for biodiversity conservation..
Currently, the Global-Hub includes 38 Members and 3 individual collaborators. FAO Indigenous Peoples Unit holds the Secretariat of the Global-Hub, which was officially endorsed by FAO Members at the 27th session of the FAO’s Technical Committee on Agriculture (COAG).
Ongoing work of the Global-Hub
The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples' food systems is currently developing its work through nine drafting committees:
- Global study on Indigenous Peoples' food security
- Ocean and freshwater-based food systems
- Indigenous Peoples' Food composition
- Indigenous hunter-gatherers food systems
- Guidelines on how to co-create knowledge between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Peoples and indicators of poverty
- Collective paper on Indigenous Peoples’ mobility, biodiversity and collective rights
- Study on the impacts of ultra-processed food products on Indigenous Peoples' health
- Indigenous Peoples’ biocentric and ecosystem restoration
White/wiphala paper on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems
2021 - A major collective achievement highlighting the game-changing nature of Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems
