A two-day regional multi-stakeholder consultation to support Indigenous Peoples for their livelihood and food security ended today with fruitful results.

The meeting was jointly organized by AIPP and FAO in collaboration with other partners, and was attended by senior representatives of the Governments from 12 countries in the region, representatives from CSOs and international organizations such as EU, RECOFTC, CIFOR, ICRAF, etc.

The meeting facilitated a better understanding of the sifting cultivation and other traditional farming practices of indigenous peoples in Asia and its role in preserving the traditional agricultural heritage, landscape, bio-diversity and sustainable environment, in addition to its fundamental life and livelihood of the majority of nearly 260 million indigenous people in the region, who constitute about 70 percent of the world’s total of 370 million. They make up 15 percent of the global poor population.

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