La agricultura comercial a gran escala continúa reemplazando las prácticas agrícolas de los pueblos indígenas, pastores y pequeños agricultores en todo el mundo. Al mismo tiempo, se llevan a cabo transacciones de tierras a gran escala para parques eólicos y solares en el contexto de la acción climática global.

Los derechos de tenencia seguros son un factor clave para construir sistemas alimentarios locales sostenibles, proteger la biodiversidad y proteger los derechos territoriales de los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales. Evitar el acaparamiento verde permitirá a las comunidades y pueblos indígenas mejorar el acceso a sus derechos territoriales.

Los invitamos a participar de este evento el viernes 27 de 8:30‒9:45 am (CET)

We invite you to our CFS 51 side event:

When: Friday 27 October 2023 | 8:30‒9:45 am (CET)

Where: Red Room (Building A), FAO Headquarters Complex, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome OR online (Zoom)

Large-scale commercial agriculture continues to replace agricultural practices of indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and smallholder farmers worldwide. At the same time, large-scale land deals for wind parks and solar farms take place in the context of global climate action. In addition, millions of hectares of land are required to meet the projected biological carbon removal in climate pledges and commitments. Such large-scale projects have detrimental impacts for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC). These groups often rely on ecosystem-based approaches to agriculture such as agroecology that strengthen the resilience of food systems while supporting biodiversity, food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Given this they should be recognized and supported as partners to mitigating and adapting to climate change and for protecting biodiversity. Secure land tenure rights are key to support their food systems and livelihoods and to protect their land from increasing demand for climate mitigation.

To avoid “green grabbing” and achieve a “just transition”, this side event will raise awareness for the scale of the problem, present evidence about the contribution of these communities in tackling climate change, highlight lessons learned from the “global land rush” and discuss the role of strengthening international frameworks and land tenure rights.

OBJECTIVES:

• Highlight that climate action, food security and land issues cannot be discussed in silos and initiate a dialogue between different stakeholders with a key role for IPLCs.
• Show how IPLCs can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change.
• Demonstrate that secure tenure rights are a key factor for building sustainable local food systems, protecting biodiversity and protecting land rights of IPLCs from the increased demand for land by climate actions.
• Provide policy recommendations on how to implement and improve safeguards to ensure that IPLCs are not adversely affected by global climate action.

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