This event has also served the purpose of complying with the 2014 recommendation from the UNPFII for FAO to organize with Indigenous Peoples a meeting on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) .

The Right to Food Guidelines address a range of activities that States should ideally undertake in order to realise the human right to adequate food. The Guidelines anticipated the urgency to address today's most pressing global challenges, which requires to be overcome by leaving no one behind. They have influenced the global agenda to eradicate hunger and malnutrition over the past 15 years and are still relevant to today’s global efforts for achieving the SDGs.

This paper briefly considers the current situation with reference to studies carried out on indigenous peoples’ education in recent years before closing with a series of recommendations for consideration in the consultation process towards a post-2015 development agenda.