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COVID Observatories was a multi-country, multi-partner project that focused on the interaction of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate risks, and food systems among the world’s most disadvantaged communities i.e., indigenous people around the world. The project addressed key knowledge and policy gaps by documenting, monitoring, and examining how the pandemic interacted with multiple stresses to affect the food systems of indigenous populations globally, co-generating knowledge and capacity to strengthen resilience. In India, IIHS worked with Keystone Foundation, focusing on the indigenous populations of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve. IIHS carried out media and policy reviews at the national, state and local levels which looked at the impact of the pandemic on indigenous populations in these areas with a particular focus on health, education and livelihoods.