The Global Forum on Indigenous Youth, co-organized by FAO, Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC) and the Indigenous Champions of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, establishes a space of dialogue between Indigenous youth representatives, member countries and other stakeholders to discuss their challenges, priorities and prospects related to food security and climate change, to feed their recommendations into the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. The Forum results from a 2017 recommendation from UNDESA to FAO through the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which built upon FAO´s work with the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus in 2017 and the Rome Declaration on Indigenous Youth. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are considered some of the most sustainable in the world, and Indigenous youth are the present and future of Indigenous peoples’ food systems and their contributions are therefore important to the rest of the world. They hold a profound understanding of their cosmogonies, beliefs, culture, heritage, livelihoods and territories, and their ability to combine innovations and modern technology with traditional practices, gives them a key role in the fight against climate change, resilience and in the path towards food security and Zero Hunger.