HLPF Side-event / Recovery or transformation? Addressing challenges to peoples’ rights, climate justice, and sustainable development
Side-event at the 2021 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable DevelopmentDate and time: July 9, 2021. 7:30AM-9AM (New York, Washington) / 7:30PM-9PM (Manila) / 5:30AM-7AM (Managua) / 2:30PM-4PM (Nairobi)Register: https://bit.ly/RecoveryOrTransformation The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health crisis with impacts on economies and sustainable development of countries, especially in the global South. Climate change is […]
On Biodiversity Management by Indigenous Peoples
On behalf of the Global Executive Committee of the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), I am very happy to be part of this event. I am Alejandro Barrios, a Quechua, delivering this message from a small town in Bolivia. The PCFS, which was founded in 2004, is a South-led global network of grassroots food producers across 53 countries struggling for food sovereignty.
PCFS intervention on the Global Dialogue on the Role of Food and Agriculture in the Global Biodiversity Framework
“Indigenous knowledge systems are distilled from generations of observation and practice. While practices differ, they are anchored on the same principle across the world — the interconnectedness of the people and their environment. They conserve the environment while fulfilling the needs and aspirations of the community.