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Furthermore, based on this plan and considering the contributions of FAO to the fight for the eradication of hunger and food insecurity and the implementation of sustainable agriculture and rural development, as well as the FAO contribution to indigenous rights through the adoption of the international treaty on genetic resources and the voluntary guidelines on the right to food, the Forum recommends that FAO consider the development of operational guidelines on indigenous peoples and a framework tool for the promotion of indigenous rights and sustainable rural development in the framework of the goals that emerged from the World Food Summit and the World Food Summit five years later, as well as those that emerged from other international conferences, summits and conventions which are relevant to indigenous peoples
Responses
As part of activities related to the voluntary guidelines on the right to food, FAO organized a seminar in January 2006 on "Indigenous Peoples Rights and the Right to Food" with the objective to create awareness within FAO staff of the situation of indigenous peoples, the right to food and the related UN legal frameworks that protect such rights. The seminar also discussed new strategies for the implementation of indigenous rights and the right to food, with particular attention to capturing synergies between different mechanisms available at both the international level (crucial problem of coordination between agencies) and the national level. E/C.19/2006/6/Add.14
Final Report of UNPFII Session 4 (2005)
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