Good morning and good afternoon every one. Welcome to the Indigenous Peoples's Food Systems Nurturing Mother Earth and Preserving Biodiversity event.Kindly share your name and organization in the chat box. Please note that this event will be recorded.For questions please use the Q&As box.

Now speaking: Phoolman Chaudhary from Nepal. Mr Chaudhary is a member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples and Asia's representative to the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems. He is also a Member of the Global Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). Furthermore, Mr Chaudhary serves as Executive President of Asian Indigenous International Network (AIIN) and Consultant Advisor of Unison for People’s Alliance (UPA) in Nepal, two organisations that advocate for Indigenous People's rights and build the capacity of Indigenous Peoples to address the challenges facing their respective communities.

Dear all ma'am and sirs, greetings from FAO Nepal. I am Narayan Shrestha, working as a Indigenous Peoples Specialist in FAO- BRCRN Project Nepal, funded by GCF.

Andrea Selva, The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty (TIP), Rome, Italy

Pheap Tuy, Mr. TCDTA, CAPFISH Capture project, FAO, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Lovely video compilation!

Now speaking: Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa. Yon has been Head of the Indigenous Peoples Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) since 2014. In the frame of his responsibilities, he supported the creation of the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems post UN Summit; with Canada, he set up the Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples in Rome and currently he co-coordinates the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems.

yes we can

Hello everyone. I am Sepideh Shakeri, from CENESTA, Iran. CENESTA is a CSO that has been working in various fields related to sustainable development for over 40 years including participatory works with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

Thank you Yon

Stephane Passeri, International Consultant on Geographical Indications (GI) at FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Thailand. Supporting the development of GI national systems and then teh protection and promotion of origin-linked products in teh Asia-Pacific Region. GI is an intellectual property right which has among key advantages to request full and inclusive ownership by local producers/communities and also provide capacity and incentive to monetize the protection of biodiversity by promoting unique products (and their area of production) developing specific characteristics/qualities linked to specific local genetic materials/environment and local wisdom. Looking forward to exchange further on the matter.

Thank you Yon, great presentation and powel messages sent

It is good and important presentation.

Hello everyone! I am Dr. Pradeep Mehta, Honorary Chairman of CHINAR www.chinarindia.com We have been part of the Indigenous Food System Case Studies published by FAO. We want to initiate a Learning Expedition on Indigenous Food System in the Himalaya where people will hike and trek to reach remote Himalayan villages and experience indigenous food and stay in community homestays. Would request FAO to promote these expeditions. Thanks!

thanks everyone listening from solomon island pacific region

Now speaking: Mardha Tillah. Mardha is a former Executive Director of RMI-the Indonesian Institute for Forest and Environment experienced in inclusive policy advocacy and campaign with a demonstrated history of working in the environment and forestry issues with the local community and Indigenous Peoples using a rights-based approach. Mardha has developed interests in (Rural) Youth Empowerment, Gender and Natural Resources Management as well as Indigenous Peoples and conservation issues and decolonization issues. She is now the Indonesia Coordinator of Programmes of Landesa working on securing and strengthening coastal community’s tenure.

Hello everyone...happy to be hear...i'm Sansan Kambire...linstening from Burkina Faso (West Africa)

Dear participants, please feel free to share your questions in the chat so that we can share it with the speakers.

Question: How do we conserve indigenous food systems when government is promoting modern food systems with lots of subsidy? If we don't conserve our indigenous systems soon they will be overtaken by modern agriculture.

Greetings from India, happy to learn about indigenous people's food systems.

Indigenous people typically get low priority in Government intervention, how can we ensure sustainable support in the long run with backing from FAO?

Now speaking: Hayu Dyah Patria, founder of Mantasa. She is an accomplished food resilience and biodiversity leader in East Java who believes that diversity on our plates will bring back diversity in nature. Although her educational background is in food technology and nutrition, Hayu began discovering the connections between food, environmental issues, and women's issues, leading her to explore these topics through the lens of ecofeminism. Hayu found how rich the traditional knowledge of local and indigenous communities in Indonesia is in utilizing the surrounding plants despite how simultaneously, Indonesia is still one of the countries with the highest malnutrition rates in the world. In 2009, she founded Mantasa to address this discrepancy.

Recent developments, such as industrial agriculture, and economic land concession, have shown a negative impact on IP, is there any resolution to ensure their substantial livelihood?

Amazing work, thanks for sharing!

In the name of increasing yield, commercialization of foods have been increased with urbanization. How can we preserve Indigenous Foods systems in a Himalayan country like Nepal where cultivation land is terraces and hills ?

Due to modern seeds of rice in Nepal, we have end up hundreds of indigenous rice seeds. There no exist the indigenous rice seeds. So how we can protect them or retain them again? Thank you.

in terms of indigenous perception how can we manage the way our young people perceiving other food system more important and preferred in terms of choice and preferences?

How do we identify indigenous peoples? key characteristics /attributes

indigenous values, culture and tradition is less transferred to the new generation due to their more acceptance to globalisation and resistance to the old practices. how can we document the traditional practices with the loss of actual traditional practices that contributed to biodiversity conservation?

Thank you all for your questions. We will pass them to the speakers.

I am belong to the Khasi Indigenous Peoples community of Meghalaya in North East India. This is an important meeting and we have had excellent presentations. We founded an organisation called NESFAS in North East India to defend and promote Indigenous Peoples Food Systems. We focus in having young staff who respectfully identify Elders who help them to contextualise local knowledge in their work as Edmond said. We organise Agrobiodiversity Walks of young people, women and elders and learn while walking. We are experimenting with School Meals that are supplemented by local wild edibles. We promote local Cafes to promote food with local food. We are working on decentralised green energy. We need to find ways to connect such local initiatives to the global institutions such as those highlighted by Yon and Edmond.

What are the some of the most important actions that Indigenous Peoples can take to conserve their indigenous foods and knowledge? What are the capacities they need to do this themselves? Is there an efficient mechanism that records, documents and studies such food systems ?

Thank you respected presenters and Marianna for this great learning event

Thank you respected presenters and all organizing great learning event.

https://youtu.be/JxwIw8rmzeg this is a link on one of our Farm schools with young urban children. Seno Tsuhah , Nagaland, India

thanks for sharing!

Thankyou for this sharing and learning platform

https://www.theindigenouspartnership.org/https://nesfas.in/

Thank you Andrea for sharing!

thank you so much Marianna and organisers for great learning event

thanks you all for the fruitful discussion.

This session is of a paramount importance. Thank you so much for the organizers

Thanks so much from TIP and NESFAS

Thank you