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Addressee: Member States, Secretariat of the UN Food Systems Summit
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the dialogues to support indigenous peoples’ preparations for the United Nations Food Systems Summit. The Forum requests Member States and the secretariat of the Summit to guarantee the participation of indigenous peoples at the Summit with a view to ensuring due reflection of indigenous peoples’ rights and issues in the relevant outcome documents.
Responses
FILAC: Contributed to the White Paper/Wiphala for the Food Systems Summit.
FILAC in coordination with CANEUS, UNOOSA, ICARDA, AERAP and LifeWatch held the launching of Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure (IKRI) within the framework of the Summit on Food Systems.
FILAC response to the commitment taken by the Secretariat of the Food System Summit during the Governing Council at FILAC (February 2021), 15 regional and global consultations were held among indigenous peoples representatives to represent their perspectives and define action-oriented recommendations to be presented to the Food Systems Summit Secretariat, UN Member States and other stakeholders --> Around 800 indigenous people’s representatives participated in the online consultations.
WFP: Was the anchor agency for Action Track 5 and took an active role in all the Food Systems Summit (FSS) Action Tracks. In FSS Action Tracks 3 (boosting nature positive production) and 4 (livelihoods and equality) WFP -in collaboration with other UN agencies and indigenous peoples’ organizations and civil society organizations - co-facilitated a cluster named “Empowering Communities and Indigenous Peoples: Recognising Rights and Traditional Knowledge” within the Action Area “Rebalancing Agency within Food Systems”.
At the Food Systems Pre-Summit on 27 July, WFP led an affiliate session titled Indigenous peoples’ agency for an equitable and resilient food system organized in partnership with indigenous peoples’ organizations, academia, FAO and UN/civil society initiatives.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 20 (2021)
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