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indigenous peoples over traditional land, forests, marine and other natural resources
and decisions on the type of development should be acknowledged.
22. Relations between development agencies and the organizations of indigenous
peoples should be direct and not relayed through intermediate institutions of the
dominant society.
23. States should recognize the rights of indigenous peoples to food and nutritional
security and the sustainable production and consumption of healthy and nutritious
foods by using appropriate sustainable technology. There is a particular need to
ensure that indigenous peoples who depend on marine and terrestrial resources be
supported in protecting and ensuring their rights to and sustainable use of those
resources.
24. States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes should mobilize
support for indigenous peoples who are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters.
25. The Forum encourages the World Bank to ensure the full and effective
participation of indigenous peoples in the formulation of the forthcoming
indigenous peoples’ guidebook and any revision to the operational policy BP 4.10
on indigenous peoples. The policy and practice of the World Bank and other
multilateral development banks should be consistent with internationally recognized
human rights of indigenous peoples. The results of the International Expert
Workshop on Methodologies regarding Free, Prior and Informed Consent should
serve as a guide to the World Bank in its practices pertaining to indigenous peoples.
Other follow-up
26. The Forum welcomes resolution 49/7 of the Commission on the Status of
Women, entitled “Indigenous women beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action”, adopted in March 2005, and recommends to
the United Nations system and Governments to implement that resolution.
27. The Forum calls on the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
to continue its support to the national indigenous peoples biodiversity participatory
mechanisms of the small island developing States through the Convention’s island
and biodiversity project and indigenous peoples programme, in the promotion of
sustainable biodiversity.
28. The Forum encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO) to recognize the importance of and emphasize support for indigenous
agricultural systems, including forestry, shifting cultivation, fisheries, livestock,
pastoralism and hunting-gathering systems, and their associated biodiversity, foods,
knowledge systems and cultures. It encourages FAO to promote the responsible use
of culturally appropriate agricultural inputs and technology so as to protect the
traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples.
29. The Forum recommends that immediate steps be taken within the framework
of the Commission on Sustainable Development to protect water from privatization
and from bilateral and multilateral governmental agreements and other incursions
that affect the integrity of waters and impoverish communities, particularly
indigenous women. The Forum recommends that the Commission appoint a special
rapporteur for the protection of water to gather testimony directly from indigenous
communities of the world impacted by or targeted for water privatization, diversion,
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