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The Permanent Forum also welcomes the launching by FAO, during the twenty-seventh session of its Technical Committee on Agriculture, in 2020, of the global hub on indigenous peoples’ food systems. It recommends that FAO continue to facilitate the work of the global hub. In addition, the Permanent Forum welcomes the White/Whipala paper on indigenous peoples’ food systems, which was drafted under the coordination of the global hub, and which has been accepted as one of the scientific papers that will serve to inform constituents at the Summit.
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FAO: The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems includes now 20 Organizations, research centres and Universities co-creating knowledge on Food Systems.
The Ărramăt Network on Health and Nutrition joined the Global-Hub as the 19thpartnerorganization in 2021. The Ărramăt team includes 150+ people, is gender diverse and Indigenous-led with more than 60% of their Team being Indigenous.
The Global-Hub provides evidence to support Indigenous Peoples’ participation and inform policy discussions and research agendas on food security, nutrition, biodiversity, climate change, at local, national, regional level and global levels. The Global-Hub aims to identify research gaps on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems; to mobilize scientific and traditional knowledge systems and provide evidence on the sustainability of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and most of all contribute to the global debate on sustainable food systems and climate change.
The Global-Hub was spotlighted as an important platform for targeted research and evidence generation in the 42nd Special Edition of the scientific journal Agriculture for Development (Ag4Dev42)on Food Systems Transformations for Inclusive and Sustainable Development.
The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems was a collective effort involving more than 39 different organizations in 6 socio cultural regions of the world. The White/Wiphala paper was drafted and coordinated by The Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems.
More info: https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb4932en/
In fall 2021, the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems was established within the framework of the UN Food Systems Summit with the technical support from the FAO Indigenous Peoples Unit and the Global-Hub and led by UNPFII, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Norway, the Dominican Republic and Spain.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 20 (2021)
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