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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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Nyeleni: Food Sovereignty in an era of authoritarian and fascist resurgence
by Nyéleni newsletter 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

*EN Food Sovereignty in an era of authoritarian and fascist resurgence* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=143> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * In every region of the world, we are seeing the rise and consolidation of social, political and cultural forces that are racist, xenophobic, misogynist, male chauvinist, homo-lesbo-transphobic, anti-pacifist, antidemocratic and totalitarian.(...) The authoritarian/fascist regimes that have risen over the past decade are notably dangerous because of the support they have from astonishingly large cross sections of their populations and transnational capital, *giving them the power to polarize and fracture societies, and reverse important, hard won gains in human rights, civil liberties, and secular, democratic governance.* In this edition of the Nyéléni newsletter, we examine the implications of these political-social configurations for the Food Sovereignty movement.* We especially highlight how Food Sovereignty is itself a strategy of resistance against the dangerous wave of extreme authoritarianism sweeping the world.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=143> 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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Peasant seeds: New edition of Nyeleni!
by Nyéleni newsletter 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

*EN Peasant seeds, the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=140> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * In 2018 the United Nations (UN) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, recognising at the highest level of international governance the strategic role played by the peasants of the world.(...) The Declaration highlights the role of peasant seeds in achieving Food Sovereignty, and in developing agrarian policies which favour peasant farmers. (...) It is vital to guarantee the right of peoples to "*Maintain, control, protect and develop their own seeds and traditional knowledge”. *(...) In this edition of the newsletter we are inviting you to return to the debate on *Peasant seeds, the heart of the struggle for Food Sovereignty*, which guarantee full Peasant Rights. We are sharing a series of articles which seek to raise awareness and improve organisation for Peasant Seeds in all territories, and providing information about how to join the "Adopt a Seed" action. You will also find testimonies of the actions of resistance people are engaged in to keep peasant seeds in the hands of those who feed populations in a fair and healthy way. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=140> 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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Digitalization: New edition Nyeleni online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

*EN The digitalization of the food system* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=136> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * Today, more than 820 million people suffer from hunger while obesity also continues to increase across the world. Biodiversity in food and agriculture is being eroded at an alarming rate by the destruction of eco-systems. Climate change is accelerating (...). Meanwhile a new “silver bullet” is being presented by corporations, governments and international institutions to tackle hunger, malnutrition and climate change: digitalization. (...) Digital technologies have the potential to be beneficial or harmful depending on the context. Small-scale food producers have their own technologies, innovations and knowledge. However, so do corporations, who seek monopoly controls on technology. Also, digitalization is happening in an era of increasing inequalities, authoritarianism and oppression.(...) *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=136> 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!* * <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=138>* -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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Agroecology, real innovation - Nyeleni online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 03 May '19

03 May '19

*EN Agroecology: real innovation from and for the people* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=133> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * The crisis in the industrial food system is impossible to ignore. For over a decade, study after study has validated the assertion of the Food Sovereignty movement in 2007 - that the corporate food system destroys life. Now Governments are anxious to find ‘innovations’ in agriculture that can overcome this. They are hoping to be saved by a new Green Revolution(…). On the other hand Agroecology within the framework of Food Sovereignty is also gaining widespread recognition and is increasingly being promoted as an approach to transform agriculture and food systems and address the challenges we face. The Food Sovereignty movement is exposing how the discourse on innovation is actually a way to depoliticise the debate on what a new food system should look like – by not setting any criteria on what innovation must deliver on. In this way Agroecology is put together with GMOs, new gene breeding technologies, ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’. (…) In this edition, we look at the elements of Agroecology as defined by small scale food producers that make it the only real innovation to transform our food and farming. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=133> 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!* -- 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 online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

*EN Food Sovereignty at the rural - urban interface* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=130> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * The rural-urban interface is a complex social* space* where politics and culture are in constant flux. It can also be a physical *place*, where the wealth and resources of villages, towns, peri-urban suburbs, and suburbanized rural areas are in dispute. Taken globally, it is a vast territory with potential to grow food sovereignty. This issue of the Nyéléni Newsletter addresses the challenges and opportunities of building food sovereignty in peri-urban areas, and the ways that the producers and consumers of urban and rural communities form alliances to transform the food system. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=130> 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!* -- www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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New Nyeleni newsletter on Migration
by Nyéleni newsletter 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

<http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=129> *EN Migration and Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=127> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* The so-called migration crisis has taken a highly tragic turn. Many escape due to the violence of the wars of occupation, others do so because of the disasters of the climate crisis and many more because of the inequities of this voracious and savage capitalism system. For our part, the Collective on Migrations of La Vía Campesina proposes to understand migration as an act of resistance by the dispossessed. When human beings leave their families, their communities and their lands, they are challenging the system that has condemned them to disappear as peasants, as indigenous people, as women, as people of color, as youth, as another culture, as a community and as a people. By understanding migration in this way, we recognize in the struggle of La Vía Campesina the key role of migrants and their potential as actors of change. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=127> 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!* ------ Dear Subscribers of the Nyeleni newsletter mailing list, In the context of new data privacy rules that came into force in European Union on 25 May 2018, we wish to inform all our subscribers a few things: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in EU is an appreciable effort to check the misuse of internet users’ personal online data. We recognise the importance, significance and necessity of such a law. We want to assure you that your privacy is of utmost importance to us. The only data we hold of newsletter subscribers is your email address and your name (in full or in parts) if you provided this while signing up. We do not store any other personal data of subscribers and have never shared the information that we do hold with third parties. We would like to continue to keep in touch with you. However, if you wish to stop receiving the Nyeleni newsletter, you are absolutely free to do so. You can do so by scrolling to the bottom of this email and using the 'unsubcribe' option. In accordance with the GDPR regulation, we delete all of your private data related to the La Via Campesina newsletter upon receipt of your un-subscribe request. Thank you. -- 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]New Nyéléni newsletter: Kids and Food Sovereignty
by Nyéleni newsletter 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

*EN Kids and Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=124> *The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is now online!* We are aware that to achieving a world where peoples’ food sovereignty is a reality demands crucial discussions about food systems, access to and control over natural resources, political and legal debates on gender and on seeds, as well as social struggles and mobilization. But one essential element among these – and progressively gaining more attention – is* the role of children. * The future of the struggles for the realization of food sovereignty and the right to food depends on how our children are aware of the challenges regarding how we produce our food, by whom and for whom it is produced. Instead of perceiving children as a market niche, as big food companies have been,* we see the youngest generations as the foundation for transforming our food systems.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=124> 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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