May 15, 2014 marked the fourth day of the UN Permanent Forum
on Indigenous Issues (Permanent Forum). The afternoon session of the fourth day
was dedicated to a comprehensive dialogue with United Nations agencies and
funds. Several UN agencies and funds gave statements, as did indigenous
representatives.
Of particular note were statements by the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC),
and the World Bank. The FAO provided an inter-agency statement on behalf of
UNEP, IUCN/WISP, IFAD, and ILC regarding sustainable pastoralism and the
post-2015 agenda. In that statement, the FAO affirmed that pastoralism is a
sustainable livelihood and that two decades of research supported pastoralism
as an economically viable livelihood that caused less degradation than
intensive livestock production.
