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see that Slow Food is providing an opportunity for indigenous communities to form an indigenous network within the Slow Food and Terra Madre network. This network will help to reaffirm the identity they derive from their local food practices, which, when carried out responsibly and respectfully, protect the local environ- ment, defend their lands and territories and enable adaptation to climate change. We hope that this evolving indigenous network will help Slow Food to identify leverage points for guiding agricultural research, policy and advocacy institutions; as well as lead to the recognition of indigenous peoples as important knowledge holders and allies in efforts to make current agriculture and food systems more sustainable and “just, equitable and inclusive”.107