Brasília, july 12, 2024 – At a meeting held today at the headquarters of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Vanessa Grazziotin, Executive Director of ACTO, and Freddy Mamani, Coordinator of Indigenous Affairs, met the Collaborative Platform for the strengthening of food and nutrition security and sovereignty, and the sustainability of Indigenous peoples and lands.
During the meeting, Embrapa shared the experiences of its 49 research units in Brazil, highlighting the crucial role of indigenous peoples in strengthening public policies on food and nutrition security and sovereignty. The collaboration includes sustainable production and technological innovation in agriculture, experiences that could be shared with Amazonian countries through ACTO.
Embrapa’s Collaborative Platform with indigenous peoples is presented as a governance model for the protection and recognition of traditional agricultural systems, knowledge exchange, seed conservation, and more. This initiative emphasizes ongoing dialogue with the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.
The ACTO Permanent Secretariat highlighted the challenges set out in the Belém Declaration and the resolutions of the November 2023 meeting of Foreign Ministers, underlining the resolution on food and nutrition security and sovereignty that guarantees the rights of the populations of the Amazon region. Topics such as the creation of the Amazon Mechanism of Indigenous Peoples in ACTO, the platform and the design of the Amazon Strategy for Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change were also discussed.
On behalf of Embrapa, Ana Euler, Executive Director of Business, and Roselis Simonetti, Advisor to the Business Directorate (DENE), were present.
