This paper examined the motives of consumers in buying local traditional food from rural women’s cooperatives and their perceptions for “specific quality” of women’s foods with connotations of ‘a homemade’ and so traditional, pure and healthy foodstuff. It also explore to what extent visitors to women’s co‐operatives are influenced in their shopping by the fact that products are prepared by women.

This video, Spiritual and Cultural Value of Seed in South Africa, from a discussion group at the National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, hosted by the African Centre for Biodiversity at Constitution Hill in December 2017, explores some of these links in contemporary South Africa.

The paper aims to investigate factors responsible for the resilience and long term survival of short, local food supply networks formed in mountain areas characterised by low population density, remote location and underdeveloped infrastructure.

UNESCO has recognized that to participate more actively in the development of society indigenous communities, including tribal people and ethnic groups in the Asia-Pacific region have to make the transition from oral literacy traditions to cultures that combine oral and written literacy. The manual has been conceived to support interactive literacy training programmes where trainers are actively engaged in the learning process. In this sense. it adopts a learner-centred approach to training and functional content areas.

Research partnerships with Indigenous communities are relationships with cultural expectations of responsibility, relevance, and respect for Indigenous knowledge, goals, and aspirations. Indigenous communities have been seeking access to and ownership, control, and possession of research in their communities ever since “researchers” came to their lands (Brant Castellano, 2004; Wilson, 2008)

This event has also served the purpose of complying with the 2014 recommendation from the UNPFII for FAO to organize with Indigenous Peoples a meeting on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) .

This review entitled “Labelling and certification schemes for Indigenous Peoples’ foods: Generating income while protecting and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ values” provides an important building block in a much larger vision, which is to enable Indigenous Peoples to continue to be innovators of sustainable markets in favour of biodiversity and nutritional security.

The Right to Food Guidelines address a range of activities that States should ideally undertake in order to realise the human right to adequate food. The Guidelines anticipated the urgency to address today's most pressing global challenges, which requires to be overcome by leaving no one behind. They have influenced the global agenda to eradicate hunger and malnutrition over the past 15 years and are still relevant to today’s global efforts for achieving the SDGs.

This paper briefly considers the current situation with reference to studies carried out on indigenous peoples’ education in recent years before closing with a series of recommendations for consideration in the consultation process towards a post-2015 development agenda.

This working paper explores the challenges involved in reversing decades of underinvestment, and why focusing too closely on formalisation may price out or remove informal food systems — and those who depend on them — from the market.