The right to adequate food and indigenous people

FAO

Published in : 2009

Available in : English

Right to Food Studies is a series of articles and reports on right to food related issues of contemporary interest in the areas of policy, legislation, agriculture, rural development, biodiversity, environment and natural resource management.

This paper analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them. It provides an overview on the international legal framework of indigenous peoples’ right to food and discusses issues of concern from a right to food perspective. The purpose of this study is to inform indigenous peoples, UN staff working on indigenous peoples’ issues or the right to food, development practitioners and academia interested in these issues.

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The right to adequate food and indigenous people (PDF, 933.14Kb)

Originally posted at : FAO - Publications

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Nutrition and human rights, general, Vulnerable groups, general, Indigenous people, Right to food

Resource types : Reports