TIP’s ADVISORY BOARD 2022

TIP’s journey with the Indigenous communities as stewards of biocultural diversity since 2010 has been enriched with learnings from our grassroot custodians. Its association with scientists and academicians of contemporary knowledge has also been very rewarding. From organizing the ITM 2015 in Shillong, North East India, cited by a well-known journalist as “the Woodstock of Agrobiodiversity” to inspiring FAO and Bioversity International’s award-winning publication: “Indigenous Peoples Food Systems – Insights on sustainability and resilience from the front lines of climate change”, from two cycles of training (2017  and 2019) of the Indigenous Youth Fellowship Programme that trained several Indigenous Youth to confidently share their communities voices on a global platform, TIP has silently left its mark. Then from mid-2020, TIP took part in the planning for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.

 

With these strong interactions and established networks of thinking minds and Youth supporters, TIP feels confident they are ideal channels of understanding and steering our future work which should no longer be only about overcoming vulnerability and marginalisation. It should be a conversation about using traditional and contemporary knowledge to enhance the potential of Indigenous Peoples to

·       be architects of their own future to secure and exercise their rights to their land, territories and resources, guided by their values and systems of governance.

·       to spark and fuel a behavioural change through an inclusive and collaborative approach where indigenous Youths and Elders and outstanding non indigenous experts are part of a community that will work to nudge the acceptance of Indigenous Peoples Food Systems as game changers. 

 

Hence our shaping of the new and enlarged Advisory Board of TIP comprises not just the experienced but also young progressive voices from the 7 indigenous Peoples socio cultural Regions, leaders of Indigenous Peoples Organisations, Human Rights activists, international experts in various fields. Our 2022 Advisory Board comprises 42% women (5), 42% of Youth and all from the 7 socio cultural regions to lay the foundations for TIP to expand its work.