The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

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“…In their statement, Food sovereignty: a future without hunger (1996), they declared: "Food sovereignty is a precondition to genuine food security". developed by La Vía Campesina, Indigenous peoples also tend to emphasize food sovereignty as a right for Indigenous peoples to choose, to cultivate and to preserve their food practices and endogenous biocultural values (FAO, 2021).…”

Section: Food Sovereignty and Seedsmentioning

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Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Pimbert

2022

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion

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Seed commons—the collective management of seeds and associated knowledge—is a major aim of food sovereignty, that crucial alternative to the dead end of industrialized agriculture. To reclaim the commons, explains Michel Pimbert in this wide-ranging policy analysis, we need to enable community control over growing, trading and consuming food. That will demand mutually supportive transformations in agriculture, economies, rights and political systems towards agroecology, an economics of solidarity, collective notions of property and direct democracy. Drawing on sources such as the Nyéléni Declaration on food sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, Pimbert outlines a radical approach to seed governance outside the capitalist and patriarchal paradigm. The proposals, while scarcely featuring in global and national fora on seed governance, offer a fresh framework for needed change at a time of social exclusion, poverty and deepening environmental crises.

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Section: Food Sovereignty and Seedsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Pimbert

2022

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion

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“…Indigenous self-determination. Different food systems are entangled with different ways of life, highlighting the need to link food security with food sovereignty as it relates to cultural identity, spiritual wellbeing and land stewardship 13 . The marginalization of indigenous food systems is intertwined with colonial legacies of cultural and political domination 14 .…”

Section: Strategies For Conservation Academic Research On Indigenous ...mentioning

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Indigenous knowledge in food system transformations

Vijayan,

Ludwig,

Rybak

et al. 2022

Commun Earth Environ

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Indigenous food systems ensure ecological and socio-economic sustainability but remain marginalized in science and policy. We argue that better documentation, deeper understanding, and political recognition of indigenous knowledge can help transform food systems.Indigenous knowledge is crucial for sustainable transformations of food systems but often remains marginalized in policy and practice. Controversies surrounding the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit have highlighted this issue, as a broad alliance of academics and activists boycotted the event by arguing that it disempowered indigenous people and constituted an effort by "multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to […] capture the global narrative of food systems transformation 1 ".The contestation of the 2021 Summit reflects a deeper tension between increasing emphasis on the importance of indigenous knowledge in academic research and its continued marginalization in institutions and decision-making processes of the global food system. As participants and organizers of the 2021 Summit's side event Bridging scientific and indigenous peoples' knowledge for sustainable and inclusive food systems, we identified seven key entry points for the inclusion of indigenous knowledge in the negotiation of food systems transformations. Entry points for indigenous engagementLearning from case studies and discussions at our side event of the 2021 Summit, we highlight the need for concrete entry points beyond merely symbolic acknowledgment of the importance of indigenous knowledge. We identified seven entry points that can contribute to bridging indigenous and academic knowledge about food systems (Fig. 1). The diversity of entry points reflects the need for a multi-pronged approach that includes an improved understanding of indigenous knowledge systems, more inclusive practices of conservation and negotiation, as well as political articulations of indigenous representation and self-determination.Co-evolution of ecosystems and knowledge systems. Indigenous people conserve about 80% of the world's biodiversity 2 and their knowledge systems have co-evolved with ecosystems, guiding agricultural and other livelihood practices. Despite growing academic interest in the co-evolution of ecosystems and knowledge systems 3 , agricultural development often fails to recognize the adaptive character of indigenous knowledge and practices. Understanding this co-evolution and adaptation is crucial for situating indigenous food systems and their sustainable roles in wider environments 4 .

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“…Peoples and local communities are disproportionately affected as their connection to the land forms the basis of their cultural integrity, livelihood security, food sovereignty, and overall wellbeing. 183 Furthermore, the values and relationships communities have with their territoriesoften based on reciprocity as demonstrated in Box 5-provide observable benefits to the conservation of biodiversity. This concept of reciprocity, or of "living well together", is observed across the Indigenous world.…”

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Reconciling Conservation and Global Biodiversity Goals with Community Land Rights in Asia

2022

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Globally, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have long been custodians of biodiversity. Their customary territories are estimated to contain 36% of the world’s remaining intact forest landscapes and 80% of remaining biodiversity. Yet, just about 8.7% of territories held by Asia’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities are legally recognized. The report is a product of an extensive collaboration between 20 Indigenous and local community organizations across South and Southeast Asia. It frames conservation beyond being an issue of natural resource management and highlights the question of governance, autonomy, and sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to achieve their self-determined development aspirations. It brings together data and stories from communities on the ground to re-position global human rights and conservation discourses at the center of Asia’s unique political realities.

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The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples' food systems

Cited by 11 publications

References 148 publications

Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Reclaiming Diverse Seed Commons Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Economies of Care

Indigenous knowledge in food system transformations

Reconciling Conservation and Global Biodiversity Goals with Community Land Rights in Asia

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