Wild foods, biodiversity and livelihoods
This Expert Group works to consolidate the traditional ecological knowledge about wild foods in Asia and link it with the policy arenas relevant to food security, poverty reduction and sustainable forest management.
Banning the consumption of wild foods can have positive impacts on nature conservation and on the decrease of zoonotic diseases. But what about communities depending on these resources to survive?
How can we synergize the SDGs to achieve resilient food systems? Watch this seminar with Femy Pinto from the SIANI Expert Group on Wild Foods, Biodiversity and Livelihood to learn more.
Read the transcript from an online dialogue about wild foods, customary tenure rights, traditional food systems and knowledge.
What is the relationship between wild foods, tenure rights, and traditional knowledge? Find out with our Expert Group.
Read this summary of an introductory discussion on wild foods, biodiversity and livelihood arranged by one of the SIANI Expert Groups.
This video presentation uses stories from the field to demonstrate how indigenous communities value and use wild foods and highlight the key challenges they are facing.
Let the world know about your connection with indigenous food, biodiversity and livelihoods!
We seek the stories from people and organizations who harvest and consume wild foods and work with wild foods conservation, restoration and revival.
Our new Expert Group consolidates the knowledge about wild foods in Asia and links it with relevant policy arenas on food security, poverty reduction and sustainable forest management.