Issue paper
High-Level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems. Building on traditional knowledge to achieve Zero Hunger
In December 2017, FAO and Bioversity International entered into an agreement to contribute to the overall food systems and climate change adaptation debate through analytical and field activities on indigenous food systems. Thanks to this agreement, and through a task force thatincluded, FAO and Bioversity, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and local indigenous organizations, different food systems across the world were profiled.
To present the first results of these studies and to identify strategies to safeguard the preservation and transmission of ancestral knowledge to future generations in relation to indigenous food systems and climate-adapted crops, FAO in collaboration with different partners organized the first High-level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems, held at FAO headquarters from 7 to 9 November 2018.