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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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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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