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toxic contamination, pollution, commodification and other environmental injustices
that damage natural and potable water supplies.
30. The Forum recommends the full participation of indigenous peoples at the
upcoming World Water Forum to be held in Mexico City in 2006, and the inclusion
of indigenous rights and perspectives on water in that conference.
31. The Forum recommends that ILO, with the participation of interested parties,
including indigenous peoples’ organizations (the United Nations system, the
International Finance Corporation, the European Bank for Rural Development)
conduct a workshop on capacity-building for the sustainable development of
indigenous communities to ensure that Millennium Development Goals and targets
are implemented in a timely and appropriate manner for indigenous peoples.
32. The Forum recommends that FAO develop a strategic plan for working with
indigenous peoples by defining the FAO mission, vision and conceptual framework
for indigenous peoples.
33. Furthermore, based on this plan and considering the contributions of FAO to
the fight for the eradication of hunger and food insecurity and the implementation of
sustainable agriculture and rural development, as well as the FAO contribution to
indigenous rights through the adoption of the international treaty on genetic
resources and the voluntary guidelines on the right to food, the Forum recommends
that FAO consider the development of operational guidelines on indigenous peoples
and a framework tool for the promotion of indigenous rights and sustainable rural
development in the framework of the goals that emerged from the World Food
Summit and the World Food Summit five years later, as well as those that emerged
from other international conferences, summits and conventions which are relevant to
indigenous peoples.
34. The Forum recommends that FAO and the Sustainable Agricultural and Rural
Development Initiative work further on the development of cultural indicators for
identifying priorities and criteria and methodologies for the right to food and food
security, with the participation of indigenous peoples, taking into account the
protection and restoration of indigenous peoples’ traditional foods systems and their
agrobiodiversity and associated traditional knowledge and livelihoods. The threats
to sustaining such systems, such as monoculture cash crop production, mineral
extraction, environmental contamination and genetically modified seeds and
technology, should be addressed.
35. The Forum, recognizing the contributions of the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD) in reducing rural poverty and its experience of
good practices, recommends that IFAD consider operational guidelines on
indigenous peoples and a framework tool for advocacy for promoting indigenous
rights and development and achieving international development goals which
emerged from international conferences, summits and conventions which are
relevant for indigenous peoples.
36. The Forum recommends that the precautionary principle underpin the
regulation of the introduction of technologies, such as genetically modified crops,
including genetic utilization restriction technologies, “the terminator seed
technology”, and further recommends that Governments ratify and implement the
Biosafety Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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