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[Nyéléni]Nyéléni international launches new website! Check it out!
by Nyéleni newsletter 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Nyéléni international launches new website!* <http://www.nyeleni.org> 30th June 2022 – Nyéléni, the International Food Sovereignty movement has launched its new website (nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/en/homepage/>) today to ensure easier accessibility and visibility to all the material and documents produced over more than 15 years of struggles and building the movement for Food Sovereignty. *“ We are extremely thrilled about this new website. We are quite certain that it will be a key resource for all the people and organisations already involved in the struggle for Food Sovereignty or for all the ones who are looking for more information on this topic.”* Said Shalmali Guttal, member of the Nyéléni newsletter Editorial Board for Focus on the Global South. The website, accessible in English, Spanish and French, is now more user-friendly, mobile-compatible and it has a better search engine. The content has also been organised in three main sections: - *The International Food Sovereignty movement and newsletter.* This section introduces the movement and the newsletter, as well as all the organisations involved. It also links to a collection of key documents and publications divided by theme (such as Food Sovereignty, Land, Fishery, etc. These compendiums will continue to be updated with new documents and material. - *The Nye**léni **newsletter.* This section includes all the newsletter editions published until now. The newsletter is the only common publication of the organisations and movements implicated in the international struggle for Food Sovereignty, which makes it unique. Over the last 10 years more than forty editions on a variety of topics have been regularly published (such as land and territory, seeds, migration and farm workers, ocean grabbing, digitalization, agroecology, FTAs, corporate governance, nutrition, authoritarianism, climate change, and many more…). The newsletter offers important informative and educational material on complex issues and provides a unique space for grassroots organisations to share their experiences and learn from each other. - *The Nyéléni forums for Food Sovereignty.* On one hand this section includes all the documents produced during the Forum which took place in Mali in 2007: from the material generated during the long preparation process before the event, to the media coverage and the final reports. On the other there is a link to the new Nyéléni process which is taking place at the moment and will finalise with a new Global Forum of Food Sovereignty in the upcoming years. *“We are delighted by this new website. We think that it will improve the visibility of the international Nyéléni movement. We also believe that it will help the Nyéléni newsletter to reach a larger audience while continuing to benefit all the grassroots movements involved worldwide in the struggle for Food Sovereignty. We hope you will join us in this effort to make the voice of the international Food Sovereignty movement heard!”* Said Nadine Nembhard, member of the Nyéléni newsletter Editorial Board for the World Forum of Fisher People. *Website *- The web address hasn't changed, have a look! nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/es/bienvenido-al-sitio-web-del-boletin-de-nyeleni/> [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/>

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[Nyéléni]Nyéléni process: Towards a Global Forum for Food Sovereignty
by Nyéleni newsletter 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Nyéléni process* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=177>*: Towards a Global Forum for Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=177> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: Rosanna Morris <https://rosannamorris.com/>* *Under the eye of Nyéléni, an African woman who defied discriminatory regulations and burned with creativity and agricultural progress, we will find the energy to transform the right to food sovereignty into a beacon for the construction of another world.* Women’s declaration on food sovereignty <https://nyeleni.org/spip.php?article310> As the world lurches from one crisis to another, Nyéléni symbolizes the convergence of our struggles and commitments to build a world free of greed, hunger, exploitation, extractivism, misogyny, racism, discrimination, and violence. Since 2007, Nyéléni has been a space where we meet in order to build collective strategies to advance food sovereignty, rights to land and territories, agroecology, and the rights of all small-scale food providers. Our *articulations* have given us the strength to organize against capitalism, neoliberalism, corporate power, patriarchy, and ecocide. Through the Nyéléni meetings in 2007, 2011 and 2015, the food sovereignty movement created the basis for our future position in many global negotiations. These events and the concepts born therein led to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, and the implementation of Farmers’ Rights in the context of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. But in the present global context, the food sovereignty movement cannot make it alone. To dismantle agribusiness and corporate power, as well as provide comprehensive responses to persisting systemic crises and the rise of conservative right-wing forces, we need to converge with peoples' organisations facing different forms of oppression and threats. Collectively, we can propose true alternatives for all and advance social, gender, racial, economic, intergenerational, and environmental justice. The Nyéléni meetings are thus essential for building principles, concepts and strategies shared and reinforced by many movements across different sectors, while defending the most vulnerable at local levels. *IPC for Food Sovereignty, Focus on the Global South, Friends of the Earth International, Crocevia *and* FIAN* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=177> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/> ! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Circulate it!* [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/>

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[Nyéléni]The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Small-scale fishers: Struggles and mobilisations* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=174> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * *Illustration: Cara Penton, @CaraPenton* The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to highlight the importance of artisanal fishing and aquaculture. Over the past ten years, and even more so since the pandemic, blue economy initiatives have been blooming. The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit advanced the notion of “Blue Foods”, which first and foremost means aquaculture. In 2021, the FAO Committee on Fisheries took unprecedented steps to advance aquaculture, giving birth to the "Shanghai Declaration" <https://aquaculture2020.org/declaration/> drafted by WorldFish, industry players, and other stakeholders. IYAFA is now also showcasing artisanal fishing. Some prefer the term small-scale fishing, but regardless of the term used, it is always about the way of life that provides food and income for over a hundred million people globally. However, fisher people’s territories and resources are increasingly being grabbed: the entire blue economy agenda spanning from displacing people in the name of conservation (Marine Protected Areas -MPAs), to massive-scale investments for fish farming, to expanding ports to facilitate more global trade, and to unprecedented sound blasting and drilling for oil and gas, are examples of contemporary development that have and continue to dispossess fishing communities. We hope IYAFA will become the year for fisher people all over the world to scale up resistance and mobilise masses in demands for restitution and regeneration of nature. *Transnational Institute *and *FIAN International* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=174> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/> ! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Circulate it!* [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/>

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New edition of Nyeleni now online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Introducing the message of pastoralist communities, a voice from the land* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=171> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * More than half of the Earth’s surface is made up of grasslands and rangelands. For thousands of years pastoralist communities have domesticated animals and managed ecosystems in a sustainable way, producing a diversity of cultures and food systems that are adapted and resilient. Associated biodiversity has always co-existed with pastoralism. Pastoralism is based on the extensive use of territory, sometimes grasslands but also forests or cropland after harvests, marginal lands and other spaces that very often are not suitable for agriculture. Pastoralism is practiced by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide in highly variable environments in nearly every country of the world from the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa to the Arctic Circle. Our way of life has existed since time immemorial, evolving together with the landscape. But today pastoralism is threatened as never before by the forced industrialization of livestock farming. We have to stop the loss of grazing land, “land grabbing” and the restrictions on mobility that make it impossible to maintain a viable pastoralist system. Currently we are defining a possible campaign on Pastoralists Rights. Our identity and culture is being eroded as policies fail to sufficiently include, understand or even recognize the existence of pastoralism. Low economic returns and a lack of recognition mean that young pastoralists in some areas feel forced to leave our way of life or switch to more intensive forms of farming. We are promoting a Youth Section of WAMIP, as for young people it is often difficult to gain access to land. Policy decisions are made with little or no consultation with local communities. We are the traditional land users but we are systematically excluded from decisions on land management, including the reintroduction or management of wild predators or the designation of Nature Conservation areas. Bureaucratic requirements, biased towards intensive livestock production, impose a huge and unrealistic burden of paperwork on pastoralists. But all across Europe and the world, we are getting organized into federations, building regional networks and gaining international recognition from leading institutions. We strive to defend the interests of local producers and to increase our political representation. We are creating research centres, teaming up with scientific institutions, training our young people and building our capacity. WAMIP is an alliance of pastoralist communities and mobile indigenous peoples throughout the world and our common space to preserve our forms of life in pursuit of our livelihoods and cultural identity, to sustainably manage common property resources, and to obtain full respect of our rights. As an independent grassroot movement we work together with other civil society organisations to influence policy makers at national, regional and international level, and supranational bodies such as the UN and subsidiary organisations like FAO, CBD etc. We fight these trends and maintain our way of life by continuously innovating and improving. We use local breeds to adapt to a changing environment. We try to raise awareness among consumers and to sell directly to them. We are using new media to promote our cultural traditions and organize festive events. Some of us have negotiated contracts to prevent fires, maintain heritage landscapes and provide other environmental services. We are ambassadors of local cultural heritage, sustainable productions and for Food Sovereignty. *European Shepherds Network * <http://shepherdnet.eu/> *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=171> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org <https://nyeleni.org/> ! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Circulate it!* [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://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 <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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[Nyéléni]Nyeleni international: Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems
by Nyéleni newsletter 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* *Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=168> *The autumn edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! * This year marks 25 years since the paradigm of food sovereignty was launched at the World Food Summit 1996 in Rome as a direct challenge to market-based food security promoted through the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Food sovereignty asserts the autonomy and agency of small-scale food producers and workers in the face of increasing corporate power over the entire realm of food. Since its launch, the food sovereignty movement has grown, diversified, and birthed numerous initiatives to address historical and emerging injustices, inequalities, rights abuses, and oppressions. Today, the movement is at the cutting-edge of real systemic change, with millions of people all over the world engaged in and supporting solidarity economies, agroecology, territorial markets, cooperatives, the defense of land and territories, and the rights of small-scale food producers, workers, migrants, indigenous peoples, women and people living in protracted crises. Ironically, this year, the United Nations will convene a Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) that is the polar opposite of food sovereignty. The structure, content, governance and outcomes of the UNFSS are dominated by actors affiliated with the World Economic Forum (WEF), as well as government and UN officials who believe that successfully tackling hunger, unemployment, climate change and biodiversity loss requires the central involvement of corporations since they have capital, technologies and infrastructure that surpass most nations and the entire UN system. The coincidence of these two moments clearly shows fundamentally opposing ideas about food systems. The UNFSS adopts a lens that serves the interests of the industrial, globalized, corporate controlled food system. By deepening dependency on corporate dominated global value chains, and capital-intensive and market mechanisms, this approach sidelines human rights and impedes real transformation of food systems. Food sovereignty, on the other hand, tackles root causes of hunger and malnutrition, emphasizes democratic control over food systems, confronts power asymmetries and calls for radical economic, social and governance changes to build just, equal, territorially rooted food systems that are in harmony with nature, revitalize biodiversity, and ensure the rights of people and communities. Corporations are using their considerable resources to co-opt the conceptualization and governance of food systems through financing, trade, investment, and multi-stakeholder platforms. The UNFSS is a dangerously perfect example of corporate designed multistakeholderism, where corporations can influence public decision making at the highest level but make no public interest commitments themselves. The UNFSS process has been characterized by a lack of transparency in decision-making and strong involvement of corporations in all parts of its structure, posing serious problems of accountability, legitimacy, and democratic control of the UN. Over the past year we have demonstrated our ability to mobilize across multiple constituencies around the world against the corporate capture of food and for food sovereignty. We have succeeded in challenging the legitimacy of the Summit and prevented formal agreement to the creation of new institutions, such as a panel of experts on food systems. The *Counter-Mobilization to Transform Food Systems* organized from July 25-28 reached almost 11,000 people world-wide. Food is a basic need and a human right: food systems provide livelihoods for nearly a third of humanity and are intimately connected to health and ecosystems. We need, therefore, to continue strengthening the convergence of food, health, environmental and climate justice movements, and continue to rise up against corporate food systems that are destroying our planet and our communities. *Click here to download the English edition <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=168> *or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Circulate it!* [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/infonyeleni> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/NyeleniNewsletter> [image: Website] <https://nyeleni.org/> -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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New edition of the Nyeleni newsletter online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

*Communicating for food sovereignty: people's culture and popular education* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=158> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * Food sovereignty, among the multitude of ideas that it encompasses, is also about defending the billion diversities that exist on this planet, and is a celebration of our many unique practices, tastes, cultures and customs. An important pillar in this struggle for food sovereignty is the role played by popular rural cultures, of peasants, fisherfolk, family farmers and Indigenous Peoples. These communities are inheritors of a rich and diverse tradition of oral and visual forms of communication, whether in the form of folklore, legends, tales, proverbs, songs, murals and more. These varied forms of communication are also the recorded histories of human struggles and survival. However, this diversity is, today, under threat. Just as the agro-industrial complex pushes for a homogenous, singular view of a global agrifood system, the international-corporate-media complex has also resulted in a singular, centralised form of mainstream communication. A handful of corporations today control much of what we read or watch and how people access information. Despite the challenges, organised peoples and communities around the world are countering this marginalisation of peoples’ culture. The current edition of the Nyéléni newsletter focuses on the wide variety of popular, community- driven communication approaches, drawing inspiration from local symbols, context and culture. It explores how these approaches are integral to pedagogy among peasants, family farmers, Indigenous Peoples and fisherfolk, crucial for political formation and popular education, and an essential element of our struggle for food sovereignty. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=158> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Please circulate it to your contacts!* -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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New Nyeleni: Food Sovereignty in a time of pandemic
by Nyéleni newsletter 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

*EN Food Sovereignty in a time of pandemic* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=155> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, few imagined the scale of the devastation that the disease would wreak across the world, or for how long it would last. As COVID-19 swung from country to country on its deadly course, it became clear that governmental actions or inactions, and social-economic-political contexts were as responsible as the virus for triggering impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic is far from abating: infections continue to spike in numerous countries with the emergence of new, more contagious strains of the SARS-COV-2 virus. The long awaited vaccines have started to be rolled out but may well be out of reach for majority of the world for several months or even years due to “vaccine apartheid.” Despite the limited availability of vaccines due to the time needed for production and testing, many wealthy nations have purchased sufficient vaccine supplies to immunize their own populations at least twice, and are backing monopolistic control over vaccines by pharmaceutical companies through legally enforceable intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization. This edition of the Nyéléni newsletter presents excerpts from some of the documentation and research conducted by practitioners and advocates of food sovereignty, particularly, *Voices from the ground, From COVID-19 to radical transformation of our food systems*, prepared by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism to Committee on World Food Security. Links to the full reports/papers are provided with each excerpt. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=155> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Please circulate it to your contacts!* -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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[Nyéléni]Ten years of Nyéléni - Much to Celebrate!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

*EN Ten years of Nyéléni - Much to Celebrate!* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=152> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * A decade ago, the movements of peasants, fisherfolk, shepherds, women, migrants, workers, young people, and indigenous peoples sowed a crucial seed in the defence of Food Sovereignty and the right to food - the *Nyéléni Newsletter*. During this ten year germination period, we have shared challenges, experiences, reflections, and acts of unity. In recent times, the COVID-19 pandemic has reaffirmed the fundamental role of those who feed communities in a healthy, fair, and sustainable manner. Alarmingly, we have also witnessed how extractive capitalism, authoritarianism and agribusinesses have taken over land and territories with total impunity, causing lives to be put at risk while governments continue to enact policies, regulations, and laws that favour corporations and industrial food systems. *Despite this, there is still plenty to celebrate.* *This newsletter is a** unique instrument of solidarity, exchange, training, and communication for the organisations that are advocating for urgent reforms of the Industrial Food System in favour of Food Sovereignty.(...)* *The Nyéléni newsletter Editorial Board on behalf of the International Food Sovereignty movement (in alphabetic order) :* Erik Hazard, Food First Margaret Nakato Lubyayi, WFF Martín Drago, Friends of the Earth International Million Belay Ali, AFSA Nadine Nembhard, WFFP Ramón Vera Herrera, GRAIN Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South Sofia Monsalve, FIAN Viviana Rojas Flores, La Via Campesina The Secretariat of the IPC for food sovereignty *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=152> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Please circulate it to your contacts!* -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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New Nyeleni online: Beyond land - Territory and Food Sovereignty
by Nyéleni newsletter 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

*EN Beyond land - Territory and Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=149> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * Land has always been a highly contested good. Control over land and related resources reflect the power relations in a country/region, and are an indicator of existing social injustices. At the same time, these resources are central to the rights, livelihoods and identity of small-scale food producers, and they have been at the heart of the food sovereignty movement from its beginning. This issue of the Nyéléni Newsletter is the second edition this year dedicated to the theme of land. In a historical review, we look at how land-related struggles have evolved over the past decades, starting with demands for agrarian reform to a more comprehensive framing, which asserts people’s and communities’ close and multi-faceted relationships to their territories. Despite persistent challenges to people’s struggle for land, this issue celebrates important victories and features the ingeniousness of communities around the world to assert their rights and manage their territories. Social organizations are finding ways to include emerging issues such as the challenges of climate change and digital technologies into their struggles. In the light of aggressive digitalization, financialization and authoritarianism, as well as an increasing overlapping of agrarian and ecological questions, we point out the need for movements to revive and refocus their strategies. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=149> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Please circulate it to your contacts!* -- 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 <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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New edition Nyeleni: Land grabs and Land justice
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

*EN Land grabs and land justice* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=146> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * Land is the basis for social life. It is a foundation not only for agricultural production, but also shapes and is shaped by societies’ political, economic, and cultural dynamics: *power affects land access, and land access grants power. * Given land’s central role to human society, it is unsurprising that it has also been *central to profit accumulation in the expansion of global capitalism.* Long distance land grabs - the expropriation, commodification, and privatization of distant lands - have been a central feature of world history for 500 years. (…) The result: continuing waves of* dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Indigenous, Black, and Brown peoples*. So while recent land grabs reflect continuity, contemporary drivers and impacts must also be understood in their current context. (…) This issue examines the challenges of the current rush for land by financial and corporate actors, from the local to the global. It assesses current opportunities and maps out strategies and solutions to promote change. *Land is a site of contention and injustice; it is also an area of struggle, and advancement, for food sovereignty and justice.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=146> or read it directly in the website at www.nyeleni.org ! For any further information, please contact info(a)nyeleni.org *Please circulate it to your contacts!* -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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