The project helped promote partnerships with the main actors – grass-roots, national and global – who deal directly with many of the most critical indigenous peoples’ issues. It also helped capitalize on indigenous peoples’ knowledge and expertise in matters such as natural resources management, biodiversity and climate change.

The Sustainable Development Goals are grounded in a vision that aims to transform our world. They aspire to build a world free of poverty, hunger and disease, in which every woman and every girl enjoys full gender equality, where the environment is protected and where all people have access to quality education and decent work.

The right to food entitles every person to an economic, political, and social environment that will allow them to achieve food security in dignity through their own means.The right to food is an important tool for indigenous peoples to bring about real change in their lives and to negotiate power structures.

This brief discussed the importance of Indigenous peoples’ perspective and their full and effective participation in policy and decision-making to be seen as instrumental in breaking the cycle of discrimination and exclusion.

IIPJ is a peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research journal addressing issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples throughout the world.

This book makes valuable contribution to global food system debates, including, but not limited to, the ability to generate food without depleting the natural resource base but rather preserving and enhancing the biodiversity and health of the ecosystems, the use of renewable energy sourced from within the food system, the importance of customary governance mechanisms and institutions, and the role that traditional knowledge plays in climate resilience

This briefing paper highlights the specific conditions of indigenous women, who comprise a major segment of indigenous communities where development projects are being implemented in India, Indonesia and Cambodia.

This brief focuses on IP protection of traditional medical knowledge and does not deal specifically with associated genetic resources.

Work on the relationship between IP, traditional knowledge (TK) and genetic resources (GRs) is more recent, and stems from concerns regarding the role that IP protection should play in achieving global policy objectives as varied as the conservation of biodiversity (as enshrined in the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992), food security, free and fair trade, climate change and sustainable development.

This is a peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly online journal that shares multi-disciplinary indigenous knowledge and research experience amongst indigenous health professionals, leaders, researchers and community members.