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New edition of the Nyéléni newsletter - Rooted in resistance: territories for climate justice
by Nyeleni newsletter 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! اللغة العربية فيما بعد *Rooted in resistance: territories for climate justice * <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration* *created for the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum: Cultivate or Die <https://nyeleniglobalforum.org/nyeleni-virtual-art-gallery-2025/>, Chardonnoir. Campesinos.as rise like giants, their hands and harvests both shield and sword. They defend the earth, nurture life, and reclaim sovereignty, transforming cultivation into an act of rebellion, resilience, and hope*. For Indigenous Peoples, peasants, artisanal fishers, pastoralists, forest dwellers, workers and other rural communities, land, waters, forests, and ecosystems are the foundation of life. Indigenous Peoples understand their territories as the total habitat they occupy or use, where culture, identity, and livelihoods are rooted. Beyond food production, these territories sustain essential social, cultural, spiritual, and ecological roles. Yet, land and natural goods are deeply contested, with their unequal distribution reflecting structural discrimination and historical injustices. Across centuries, processes of enclosure, colonialism, and dispossession have concentrated control in the hands of powerful actors, reinforcing oppression and exclusion. Today, climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice – driven by neoliberal economies rooted in financialization, patriarchy and colonialism – intensify these struggles. Communities’ access to, use of, and control over land and territories remain essential for advancing systemic transformations envisioned by the food sovereignty movement. Territories are sites of resistance against extractive projects that endanger health, livelihoods, and ecosystems, but also spaces where communities build alternatives based on agroecology. These models promote food sovereignty, dignity, and justice – social, climate, environmental, gender, and intergenerational. As social movements mobilize toward Climate COP 30 and the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, this edition of the *Nyéléni Newsletter* highlights the centrality of land and territories in shaping just and sustainable futures. *FIAN International, Friends of the Earth International, ETC Group, La Via Campesina* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_61_EN.pdf> or read it directly in the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <http://nyeleni.org> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <http://nyeleni.org> [image: Email] <info(a)nyeleni.org> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org *بجذور متأصلة في المقاومة : أراضي من أجل العدالة المناخية* <https://nyeleni.org/fr/toutes-les-editions-en-arabe/> *الطبعة الجديدة من النشرة الدورية نييليني الكترونية!* * "الزراعة أو الموت" <https://nyeleniglobalforum.org/nyeleni-virtual-art-gallery-2025/>، بريشة شاردونوار ,إندونيسيا * *وفقاً لرؤية شاردونوار، المزارعون الريفيون/ المزارعات الريفيات ينهضون/ ينهضن كالعمالقة، مسلحين بأيديهم وبمحاصيلهم، فهم لهم كالدرع والسيف. الزراعة أو الموت شعار يجد صداه في حرث الأرض وحمايتها من الأمراض، فالزراعة تقضي بنثر البقول في جميع الأخاديد داخل الحقول وهو عمل شاق. وهم يحمون الأرض ويعززون الحياة ويستردون السيادة ويجعلون الزراعة من أعمال التمرد والصمود والأمل.* بالنسبة للشعوب الأصلية والفلاحين/ الفلاحات والصيادين الحرفيين/ الصيادات الحرفيات والرعاة/ الراعيات وسكان/ ساكنات الغابات والعاملين/ العاملات وغيرها من المجتمعات الريفية، فإن الأرض والمياه والغابات والنظم الإيكولوجية هي أساس الحياة. تعتقد الشعوب الأصلية أن أراضيهم هي الموئل الإجمالي الذي يشغلونه أو يستخدمونه، حيث تتأصل الثقافة والهوية وسبل كسب العيش. وبعيداً عن إنتاج الغذاء، تحافظ هذه الأقاليم على الأدوار الاجتماعية والثقافية والروحية والإيكولوجية الأساسية. إلا أن الأرض والمنتجات الطبيعية محل نزاع كبير، حيث يعكس التوزيع غير المتكافئ التمييز الهيكلي وصور الظلم التاريخي. وعلى مدار القرون، أدت عمليات التطويق والاستعمار والمصادرة إلى تركز السيطرة في أيدي الجهات الفاعلة القوية، مما يعزز القمع والإقصاء. واليوم، تتفاقم هذه الصراعات نتيجة انهيار المناخ وفقدان التنوع البيولوجي والظلم البيئي - مما ينتج عن الاقتصادات النيوليبرالية المتأصلة في هيمنة التمويل والسيطرة الذكورية والاستعمار. ويظل وصول المجتمعات إلى الأرض والأقاليم والانتفاع بها والسيطرة عليها أمراً أساسياً لإحراز التقدم على صعيد التحولات المنهجية التي تضع حركة السيادة الغذائية تصوراً لها. الأراضي هي أماكن للمقاومة في وجه المشاريع الاستخراجية التي تهدد الصحة وسبل كسب العيش والنظم الإيكولوجية، ولكنها أيضاً مساحات حيث تنشئ المجتمعات بدائل على أساس الإيكولوجيا الزراعية. وتروّج هذه النماذج للسيادة الغذائية والكرامة والعدالة - الاجتماعية والمناخية والبيئية والجنسانية (الجندرية) وبين الأجيال. بينما تحشد الحركات الاجتماعية لمؤتمر الأطراف للمناخ في دورته الثلاثين COP 30 والمؤتمر الدولي الثاني للإصلاح الزراعي والتنمية الريفية، يبرز هذا العدد من النشرة الدورية نييليني الدور المحوري للأرض والأقاليم في رسم مستقبل عادل ومستدام. *FIAN International, Friends of the Earth International, ETC Group, La Via Campesina * انقرهنا لتحميل الطبعة العربية (بي دي اف <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_61_AR.pdf>)، أو اقرأها مباشرةً على الموقع الالكتروني، هنا <https://nyeleni.org/fr/toutes-les-editions-en-arabe/>! * انشرها!* ساعدنا في بناء حركة السيادة الغذائية من القاعدة الشعبية كل مساهمة لها أهميتها:* ادعموا نييليني* تبرع الآن <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <http://nyeleni.org> [image: Email] <info(a)nyeleni.org> لمزيد من المعلومات، تواصل مع info(a)nyeleni.org – www.nyeleni.org -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on Bluesky - @infonyeleni.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter - @infoNyeleni <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> Follow us on facebook <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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New Nyéléni edition: Resisting the threat of global finance
by Nyeleni newsletter 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! The Arabic version is coming soon. تصدر النشرة الدورية نييليني باللغة العربية قريباً. اللغة العربية فيما بعد *Resisting the threat of global finance, building food sovereignty * <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: This illustration was created by members of Tricontinental’s art department, for the dossier no.88: Africa’s Faustian Bargain with the International Monetary Fund <https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-faustian-bargain-imf-africa/>. The artwork illustrates the Faustian bargain that all African countries have to make, which comes at a cost to their financial, industrial, agricultural, and political sovereignty.* The 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum is set to take place in Sri Lanka this September. Sri Lanka is a deliberate choice: in 2022, a people’s uprising—known as Aragalaya—ousted a corrupt neoliberal regime that had plunged the country into a severe debt crisis and societal distress. Of Sri Lanka’s staggering US $57 billion external debt, about 32% is owed to multilateral financial institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, World Bank (WB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and another 28% is owed to the Paris Club. Nearly a quarter of the government’s revenue is spent on repaying foreign creditors, and much of this debt comes with conditions that promote the privatization of public services and the commodification of land and natural resources. Sri Lanka is not alone. Twenty African countries are facing debt distress and nearly half of the world’s population lives in countries that spend more on debt repayments than on public services. International financial institutions (IFIs) have reconfigured national budgets and financial architecture such that the interests of finance capital take precedence over the well-being and health of people and the planet. A global pushback is necessary to build food sovereignty and resilient agroecological food systems. At a recent dialogue hosted by the Committee on World Food Security, the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism emphatically noted that there can be no food sovereignty without financial sovereignty! This edition of the newsletter delves into some of the salient issues related to this and proposals for a push-back. *Focus on the Global South and La Via Campesina* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_60_EN.pdf> or read it directly on the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> [image: Email] <info(a)nyeleni.org> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org تصدر النشرة الدورية نييليني باللغة العربية قريباً. تبرع الآن <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> [image: Email] <info(a)nyeleni.org> لمزيد من المعلومات، تواصل مع info(a)nyeleni.org – www.nyeleni.org -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on Bluesky - @infonyeleni.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter - @infoNyeleni <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> Follow us on facebook <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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Waves of resistance: the Nyéléni newsletter's new edition
by Nyeleni newsletter 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! اللغة العربية فيما بعد *Waves of resistance: Fisher peoples defending food sovereignty* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: Rosine Nsimire (Alliance pour la vie) and Alessandro Musetta - Agathe, the matriarch above the water <https://alliancepourlavie.github.io/agathe/#/en-GB> is a mixed-media digital publication documenting the experiences of artisanal fisherwomen from Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC*). In a rapidly changing world, beset by war and billionaire oligarchs, fishing livelihoods remain ignored in policy discussions. US President Trump's 'drill baby drill' agenda, worldwide extractivism, neo-protectionist nature enclosure through 30by30 (Global Biodiversity Framework), government-backed aquaculture expansion, and profit-driven mega projects continue eroding fisher peoples' territories and livelihoods. The rise of the radical right has led some governments to reduce or eliminate development aid, and philanthropy holds greater sway in determining what and who gets support, further deteriorating the funding landscape. As NGOs and fisher movements increasingly rely on funding from philanthropy, this can lead to co-optation of some organizations' political agendas and create division between those maintaining food sovereignty principles and those following funder-directed focuses like 30by30, 'blue foods' and 'blue transformations'. Fisher movements must unite to discuss political positions and tactics. Following the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty’s (IPC) decision to avoid endorsing the UN Food Systems Summit, similar positions may be needed on other imposed agendas. Fisher movements need to set their own agenda, and actively shape the direction of the larger food sovereignty movement. The Nyéléni Global Forum in September 2025 in Sri Lanka offers such an opportunity: to put fisheries on the agenda, build solidarity with other small food producers, food workers and climate movements, and advance the food Sovereignty struggle. *FIAN International, GRAIN, IPC working group on fisheries, TNI, WFF, WFFP* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_59_EN.pdf> or read it directly in the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/postorius/lists/newsletter-en.nyeleni.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org *موجات من المقاومة: صيادو/ صيادات الأسماك يدافعون/ يدافعن عن السيادة الغذائية <https://nyeleni.org/fr/category/les-bulletins-nyeleni-en-arabe/%d8%a7%d9%84…>* *الطبعة الجديدة من النشرة الدورية نييليني الكترونية!* * توضيح : روزين نزيمير (التحالف من أجل الحياة) وأليساندرو موزيتا - Agathe, the matriarch above the water <https://alliancepourlavie.github.io/agathe/#/en-GB> هي مطبوعة رقمية تصدر بوسائط إعلامية متعددة وتوثق تجارب صيادات الأسماك التقليديات من بحيرة كيفو في جمهورية الكنغو الديمقراطية.* في ظل عالم يتغير بسرعة ويعاني من الحروب وأقلية من أصحاب المليارات، لايزال يتم تجاهل سبل كسب العيش الناتجة عن صيد الأسماك في النقاشات الدائرة حول السياسات العامة. وفي أجندة الرئيس الأمريكي ترامب "التي تتغنى بالحفر"، يواصل منهج الاستخراج في جميع أنحاء العالم وتطويق الطبيعة ضمن الحركة الحمائية الجديدة من خلال الإطار العالمي المعني بالتنوع البيولوجي لتحقيق الغاية 30 في 30 والتوسع في الاستزراع المائي المدعوم من الحكومة والمشاريع الضخمة القائمة على الربح ، تقويض أراضي وسبل كسب العيش عيش صيادي/ صيادات الأسماك. دفع تصاعد اليمين المتطرف ببعض الحكومات إلى خفض أو شطب المعونات الإنمائية وأصبح للإحسان والأعمال الخيرية نصيب أكبر في تحديد ماهية الدعم ومن يحصل عليه، مما أدى إلى مزيد من التردي في عملية التمويل. وحيث يتزايد اعتماد المنظمات غير الحكومية وحركات صائدي/ صيادات الأسماك على الحصول على التمويل الناشئ عن الأعمال الخيرية، ربما يؤدي ذلك إلى استقطاب الأجندات السياسية لبعض المنظمات وخلق انقسام بين المحافظين على مبادئ السيادة الغذائية وأولئك التابعين للاهتمامات الموجهة من المانحين، مثل الغاية 30 في 30 و"الأغذية الزرقاء" و"التحولات الزرقاء". يجب على حركات صيادي/ صيادات الأسماك الاتحاد للتباحث بشأن المواقف والخطط السياسية. عقب القرار الصادر عن لجنة التخطيط الدولية من أجل السيادة الغذائية بشأن عدم المصادقة على قمة الأمم المتحدة للنظم الغذائية، ربما تكون هناك ضرورة بغية اتخاذ مواقف مماثلة إزاء فرض أجندات أخرى. يتعين على حركات صيادي/ صيادات الأسماك وضع الأجندات الخاصة بهم/ بهن وتحديد التوجه الخاص بحركة السيادة الغذائية على نطاق أوسع. يقدم منتدى نييليني العالمي المقرر إقامته في سبتمبر/ أيلول 2025 في سريلانكا هذه الفرصة لإدراج مصائد الأسماك في جدول الأعمال وخلق التضامن مع صغار منتجي/ منتجات الأغذية والعاملين.ات في مجال الأغذية والحركات المعنية بالمناخ وإحراز التقدم على صعيد المعركة من أجل السيادة الغذائية. *شبكة المعلومات والعمل بشأن أولوية الغذاء ومنظمة جرين ولجنة التخطيط الدولية من أجل السيادة الغذائية والمعهد عبر الوطني والمنتدى العالمي للعاملين في الصيد وجمع الأسماك والمنتدى العالمي للعاملين في مصايد الأسماك* *مجموعة عمل لجنة التخطيط الدولية المعنية بمصايد الأسماك* انقرهنا <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_59_AR.pdf> لتحميل الطبعة العربية (بي دي اف)، أو اقرأها مباشرةً على الموقع الالكتروني، هنا <https://nyeleni.org/fr/category/les-bulletins-nyeleni-en-arabe/%d8%a7%d9%84…> ! انشرها! ساعدنا في بناء حركة السيادة الغذائية من القاعدة الشعبية كل مساهمة لها أهميتها:* ادعموا نييليني* تبرع الآن <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/fr/toutes-les-editions-en-arabe/> لمزيد من المعلومات، تواصل مع info(a)nyeleni.org – www.nyeleni.org -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on Bluesky - @infonyeleni.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter - @infoNyeleni <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> Follow us on facebook <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! (English and Arabic)
by Nyéléni newsletter 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! اللغة العربية فيما بعد *Nyéléni process: creating a joint political agenda for systemic transformation* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: First poster (of three) created for the Nyéléni Forum 2025 * Seventeen years have passed since 2007, when the first Nyéléni Forum took place in Mali, bringing together social movements for food sovereignty from all over the world. The movement has been growing and gaining momentum, advocating at all levels for collective rights, human rights and food sovereignty. However, much remains to be done. The world is in unprecedented turmoil, and we are all facing deep-rooted overlapping crises. We need a paradigm shift to reclaim the right to shape our own food systems for the well-being of people and the planet. That is why we are calling for a new mobilization within and beyond the food sovereignty movement, to build our response at both global and local levels, and tighten alliances with climate justice, antiracism, health, labour, feminist, and social and solidarity economy movements and organisations. Systemic transformation is now or never. [...]The Nyéléni Global Forum, to be held in 2025 in India, will be the space for strategy and organization, and to kick off this new phase of the food sovereignty movement. *IPC for food Sovereignty* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_58_EN.pdf> or read it directly in the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org *عملية نييليني: وضع أجندة سياسية مشتركة لإجراء تحويل منهجي* <https://nyeleni.org/fr/toutes-les-editions-en-arabe/> ! الطبعة الجديدة من النشرة الدورية نييليني الكترونية رسم إيضاحي: الملصق الأول (من بين ثلاثة) الذي تم إنشاؤه لمنتدى نيياليني 2025 وسوف يكون منتدى نييليني العالمي، المقرر عقده في عام 2025 بالهند، هو المكان المخصص لوضع الاستراتيجية والتنظيم، وإطلاق هذه المرحلة الجديدة من حركة السيادة الغذائية .ص انقر هنا لتحميل الطبعة العربية (بي دي اف) <https://nyeleni.org/fr/category/les-bulletins-nyeleni-en-arabe/%d8%a7%d9%84…> ساعدنا في بناء حركة السيادة الغذائية من القاعدة الشعبية كل مساهمة لها أهميتها:* ادعموا نييليني* تبرع الآن <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org> لمزيد من المعلومات، تواصل مع info(a)nyeleni.org – www.nyeleni.org -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on twitter - @infoNyeleni Follow us on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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A new framework for trade, new edition of Nyéléni
by Nyéléni newsletter 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! *A new framework for trade based on food sovereignty* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: *Marcia Miranda The current international trade order was established to support the expansion of transnational companies and to keep colonial powers in control of the world’s natural resources. The World Trade Organization, the IMF, the World Bank, and free-trade agreements have been used to dismantle national policies that ensured people’s sovereignty over national resources and local markets. For this reason, this edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter analyzes the impact of the current global trade system on national policies, particularly those that ensure fair prices for food producers and consumers. We are striving to rebuild food sovereignty, which means changing the global trade system and allowing countries to develop policies that ensure a decent livelihood for all people, particularly small-scale food producers. Minimum support prices, public stock-holdings, supply management, public food procurement, and so forth: there are plenty of inspiring examples of public policies that ensure a fair income for rural people, guaranteeing that how our food systems are organized is a democratic discussion and not left to the ‘markets’. This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter calls for an end to the exploitative model of capital expansion through free trade agreements. We explore the urgent need to break the hegemony of free trade and build an alternative that upholds solidarity and internationalism, and respects the diversity, autonomy, and food sovereignty of nations and communities. *La Via Campesina, ETC Group, Transnational Institute* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_57_EN.pdf> or read it directly on the website - here <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org

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The Nyéléni newsletter is online!
by Nyéléni newsletter 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Challenging the financing behind green and blue grabbing* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: *Luisa Rivera, www.luisarivera.cl Mobilising large quantities of private finance to replace the lack of public finance is fast becoming a new goal in discussions on climate and biodiversity financing. But this push means that the commodification and financialization of nature is reaching alarming levels, causing a new territorial grab and undermining environmental justice. "Green economy” mechanisms like carbon credits, biodiversity offset markets, and debt-for-nature swaps are not only misguided but perilous. This edition explores some of the varied and bewildering array of new schemes that financialise oceans, soils, seaweed, and forests. A fundamental flaw lies in the approach that prioritizes profit over genuine environmental stewardship and returns for investors, often at the expense of local communities. These mechanisms frequently lead to the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and small-scale producers, who are forced off their lands and seas to make way for lucrative conservation projects. The promised benefits of these financial schemes rarely reach those who bear the brunt of their impacts. The testimonies here clearly show that the movements of Indigenous Peoples, fishers and peasants are fighting back across the different UN platforms and in their own territories. Our movements are demanding public funding for climate and biodiversity, debt cancellation, reparations, respect for the rights and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and other communities, and genuine accountability and regulation of the corporations that have long profited from environmental exploitation. We know the curtain has been pulled back on the fantasy of neoliberal ideology, its failures exposed. So, we collectively fight its proliferation into nature and our territories. *Friends of the Earth International, ETC Group, Transnational Institute* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_56_EN.pdf> or read it directly on the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://x.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org -- www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on twitter - @infoNyeleni Follow us on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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New edition of the Nyéléni newsletter
by Nyéléni newsletter 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

New edition of the Nyéléni newsletter *** *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Ultra-processed food, a "corporate diet"* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: *Nikau Hindin, Obesity and Junk Food, 2009, @nikaugabrielle <https://www.instagram.com/nikaugabrielle/?hl=en> The past 60 years have seen an exponential rise in the production and consumption of ultra-processed ‘food’–or rather, edible–products (UPP), such as packaged crisps, biscuits, sweetened beverages, and ready-to-eat meals. Driven by an expansion of the industrial food system, including global sourcing and retail structures, and corporate concentration and power within this system, UPP are replacing fresh and minimally processed foods and home-cooked meals in our diets. Dietary patterns are becoming increasingly homogenized and culinary traditions are disappearing. This shift started in high income countries and has now reached all countries, in some making up over 50 percent of what people eat. This edition of the Nyéléni newsletter explores how the ‘corporate diet’ based on UPP is being imposed in different regions of the world and what this means for people’s health and food sovereignty. It further provides examples of resistance, from the recovery of traditional crops to the struggle for effective regulatory measures. What is clear is that to reclaim sovereignty over our plates we must look beyond our plates and reshape the food system as a whole. *FIAN International *and* AFSA* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_55_EN.pdf> or read it directly on the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org

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New edition of the Nyeleni newsletter!
by Nyéléni newsletter 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *How multilateral and other international platforms affect food sovereignty* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: Andrea Medina for ETC Group facebook.com/andreammedinagraphic/ <http://facebook.com/andreammedinagraphic/>* For many governments and policy makers, food has come to be viewed as a commodity rather than a right. Global food governance increasingly serves corporate interests through market- and business-friendly agreements which are normalised in a wide range of multilateral institutions. People's livelihoods and nature are being traded away via economic and financial deals that benefit corporations and elites in different sectors and countries, but threaten the conditions necessary for peoples’ food sovereignty. This threat is now being compounded by corporate techno-fix approaches to climate change and biodiversity crises. In this issue of the Nyéléni newsletter*,* we describe how trends in multilateral and other international platforms are impacting food sovereignty in ways that will be decisive for the future of food and peoples' self-determination. We unpack the different processes in which unfair exchanges are being perpetuated and opaque concepts promoted. As trade and investment fora continue to advance industrial food systems and global supply chains, the proliferation of so-called ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NBS) is masking new ways of commodifying nature, territories and livelihoods. By assigning land, soil, water, forests and biodiversity the impossible task of making up for the pollution caused by industries elsewhere in exchange for monetary remuneration, a new front of commons enclosure is opening up, which is being enabled, measured and monitored through new technologies. Corporate capture of political and economic agendas is a common factor in all these scenarios; spreading out and embedding in multilateral institutions through multistakeholderism. A glaring example of this is the 2021 Food Systems Summit and the subsequent establishment of a UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, which seeks to hijack the ongoing food governance conversation. A further example is the discussion on Data for Food Security and Nutrition in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), driven by none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is clear that we need to collectively mobilise and resist on an even larger and more coordinated scale than ever before to challenge and reverse these trends across a range of multilateral and other ‘negotiating’ arenas. *ETC Group, FIAN International, Focus on the Global South* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_54_EN.pdf> or read it directly on the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/InfoNyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter/> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> Newsletter-EN(a)nyeleni.org https://listes.potager.org/listinfo/Newsletter-EN To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to Newsletter-EN-unsubscribe(a)nyeleni.org

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14 Sep '23

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Emerging diseases and factory farming * <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: * Rini Templeton www.riniart.com *What makes food safe?* Within the industrial food system, “safety” is all about managing the high risks created by this model of food production. Food is produced on monoculture fields or factory farms, with uniform breeds of plants and animals that are highly vulnerable to pests and diseases. In this context, diseases can grow or mutate into more lethal forms, and, in the case of animals, transfer to humans and spread through corporate supply chains. To deal with their vulnerabilities, crops are genetically modified or doused with toxic pesticides, and animals are fed antibiotics and drugs, creating more health dangers. Then much of the food gets highly processed and sold through supermarkets, causing harms like diabetes and cancer. More and more regulations and standards are imposed by governments and corporations to deal with these risks. But they typically only curtail the most serious excesses, without threatening corporate profits, and are alien to food systems based on traditional animal husbandry, markets and agroecology, where risks are low because of diversity, local knowledge, trust and small scale circuits. Those regulations have become a tool to expand corporate control and undermine the healthy food systems that continue to feed the majority of the world's people and that are the only real solution to the harms of the industrial food system. *GRAIN* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_53_EN.pdf> or read it directly in the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on twitter - @infoNyeleni Follow us on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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13 Jun '23

*Nyéléni process: Recognizing the power of people's movements* <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: * Andrés Mateo Ayala Luna @calma_88 <https://www.instagram.com/calma_88/?hl=en> In 2007 the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) played a vital role in uniting small-scale food producers and their allies to establish a shared vision of food sovereignty and implement strategies to make it a reality. Over time, a robust global movement for food sovereignty emerged, gaining significant political recognition. Together, we have achieved the democratization of global food and agricultural arenas, including the reform of the Committee on World Food Security. Our struggles also influenced food sovereignty policies in various national contexts and successfully secured political acknowledgment of peasants as rights holders through the ratification of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. However, our achievements are now under threat due to an extended period of systemic crises. Right-wing forces, authoritarian regimes, and the corporate capture of democratic governance spaces are on the rise globally, accompanied by the dismantling of the United Nations multilateral system. Human rights violations against peasant and Indigenous communities, along with climate change, biodiversity loss, armed conflicts, and hunger, are escalating rapidly. Furthermore, renewed threats to food sovereignty come from new business configurations, in which hedge fund speculation firms and digital technology titans join forces to oil the wheels of the failing agro-industrial production system. In this context, the IPC advocates for a new global Nyéléni process, leading up to the next Nyéléni Global Forum in India in 2025. Recognizing the power of people's movements, we aim to strengthen solidarity and unity by bridging local and global struggles. We are striving to adopt an intersectional perspective to address the multi-dimensional global crisis effectively. By collaborating with climate justice, workers' rights, feminist, solidarity economy, anti-war, youth, and other movements, we seek to resist the corporate takeover of governance spaces, safeguard human and collective rights worldwide, protect ecosystems, and secure a dignified life on Earth for present and future generations. *IPC for food sovereignty, Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina, Transnational Institute* *Click here to download the English edition (pdf)* <https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_52_EN.pdf> or read it directly in the website <https://nyeleni.org/en/category/newsletters-nyeleni-in-english/newsletter-n…>! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org - www.nyeleni.org <https://us5.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyeleni.org%2Fen%2F…> *Circulate it!* *Help us to build the movement for food sovereignty from the grassroots.* Every contribution counts: Donate now! <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/InfoNyeleni/> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international *Nyéléni Newsletter * on Food Sovereignty www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org Follow us on twitter - @infoNyeleni Follow us on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter [image: https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/] <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/> <https://donorbox.org/nyeleni-newsletter>

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