Submission to FAO – Committee on World Food Security (CFS) – “Persevering, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems”

“The FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is a neutral public platform for multistakeholder dialogue. It engages a wide range of individuals and institutions, fostering awareness, knowledge sharing, debate and mutual learning on a wide range of issues that affect food security and nutrition, and food systems.

Since 2007, the FSN Forum embodies FAO’s role of knowledge broker. The Forum plays an important role in creating synergies among its members and partners, ensuring greater transparency and inclusiveness in policy and decision-making processes aimed at the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.” https://www.fao.org/fsnforum/index.php/background

At their 51^st plenary session in Oct 2023, the multiyear plan of work was adopted for 2024-2027. Part of that agenda was “Persevering, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems”.

A call for submissions was made recently and WBTiAUS have pulled together a submission. Read more about the background and rationale here https://www.fao.org/fsnforum/index.php/consultation/indigenous-peoples-food-and-knowledge-systems

The aim of our submission was to ensure that the issue of breastfeeding of infants and young children was considered as a traditional food but also that it is based on women’s unique and valuable knowledge and skills.

Our submission can be found here https://www.fao.org/fsnforum/index.php/consultation/indigenous-peoples-food-and-knowledge-systems#comments or you can read it below –