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New edition of Nyeleni on Oceans and water
by Nyéleni newsletter 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

*EN Oceans and water* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=117> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online! * Water is an essential element for life and a crucial component of the human environment. It is also an indispensable natural resource needed for the production of our food and the maintenance of our planet’s basic functions.* For these reasons, water has increasingly become a central political element in peoples’ struggles for food sovereignty. * The current edition of the Nyéléni newsletter exposes the growing global threat of privatization and commodification of water – especially those of the oceans and of inland waters, which are the source of life for thousands of millions of fisher folks the world over. Fisher communities from different regions and countries, organized in global movements - the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) and the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) - are resisting “ocean/water grabbing”, which follows similar logic to land grabbing. *The time has come to reemphasize the importance of fish workers themselves – both women and men – and for communities to exercise their sovereignty and make states meet their human rights obligations – especially with regard to the protection of our oceans and inland waters. * *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=117> 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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Advancing Food Sovereignty, new edition Nyeleni online
by Nyéleni newsletter 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

*EN Advancing Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=113> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* This year marks the tenth anniversary of the historic International Forum on Food Sovereignty that was held Mali in 2007. Nyéléni has since become a space of praxis, to convene, synergise and build forces to strengthen the different conditions for food sovereignty. As the paradigm of food sovereignty has expanded, so too have threats against it. These threats are being confronted at multiple fronts and levels by the growing global movement for food sovereignty. The recurring crises the world is facing are inherent to capitalism which is adept at re-inventing itself to maintain structural power. Tinkering with the wiring of the capitalist model will do little good. *What is needed is deep systemic change, a complete paradigm shift from competitiveness to solidarity, from extractivism to respect and from exploitation to dignity. This is the paradigm of food sovereignty, which the global movement is advancing through diverse knowledge, capacities, resources and social bases.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=113> 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=114> -- Emanuela Russo Coordinator of the international Nyéléni Newsletter www.nyeleni.org info(a)nyeleni.org <http://www.nyeleni.org>

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FTAs and agriculture, Nyeleni newsletter online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

*EN FTAs and agriculture* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=109> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* FTAs aren’t just about ‘trade’. They’re comprehensive agreements to lock in free market capitalism, strengthen the power of global corporations, finance, and powerful governments, and advance their geopolitical objectives. There are direct links between FTAs, climate change, ecological devastation, and violations of Indigenous Peoples’, workers’ and farmers’ rights. *We must struggle for **real systemic change**,* saying “no to FTAs and global free market capitalism”, combatting racist politics and defending mother earth. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=109> 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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Agroecology at a crossroads, Nyeleni newsletter.
by Nyéleni newsletter 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

*EN Agroecology at a crossroads* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=106> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* Agroecology has become a territory in dispute. While mainstream institutions and corporations for years have marginalized and ridiculed agroecology, today they are trying to capture it. They want to take what is useful to them – the technical part – and use it to fine tune industrial agriculture, while conforming to the monoculture model and to the dominance of capital and corporations in structures of power. Social movements, on the other hand, use agroecology to challenge existing power structures, to resist the multiple attacks on our Mother Earth, and as a tool for the social, economic, cultural, political and ecological transformation of communities and territories. *Their agroecology is merely technical, our agroecology is political.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=106> 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 newsletter: Smallholders' markets
by Nyéleni newsletter 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

*EN Smallholders' markets* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=100> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* Bulk of the food consumed in the world is produced by smallholders and workers, and channeled through *“territorial markets”*, which reflect the huge diversity of contexts that characterise small-scale food production and distribution. Territorial markets are an important source of employment and critical in battling hunger and poverty. These markets increasingly face threats from corporate led super/hyper-markets, procurement, storage, certification and food safety systems. Corporations use neoliberal trade and investment agreements, and sophisticated marketing systems to control how food is produced, priced, distributed and consumed. *Protecting and strengthening the markets of smallholders are crucial aspects of food sovereignty and restoring societal control over the economy.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=100> 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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Land reform and FS: new Nyeleni online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

*EN Land Reform and food sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=97> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a *struggle for territor.* This will require forging unions between –on one side– peasant farmers, day laborers, indigenous peoples, nomad shepherds, artisan fishermen, forest peoples and other rural communities, and –on another– city dwellers, especially those in suburban communities and consumers. It will require producing healthy food using agroecology and know-how handed down from our ancestors and steeped in popular traditions. We must show that land in community hands is better for society and Mother Earth than land which is at the mercy of capital. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=97> 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 edition on Corporate governance of food systems - now online!
by Nyéleni newsletter 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

* <http://www.nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_10_EN.p…>**EN Corporate governance of food systems* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=83> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* >From our oceans and seashores, crossing our lands and reaching deep into the minerals of our earth, there is a dangerous threat dominating our current political and economic relations around the world: the so-called private corporate capture of policy-making public spaces. For decades, civil society and social movements have been struggling to democratically strengthen these spaces in order to achieve the so needed peoples’ food sovereignty. *But this process is under a severe threat these days...* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=83> 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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Forest, Foraging and the Commons, Nyeleni newsletter
by Nyéleni newsletter 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

* <http://www.nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_10_EN.p…>**EN Forests, Foraging and the Commons* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=79> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* About 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries. Most survive on subsistence farming, artisanal fisheries and/or nomadic herding and many are landless, working as seasonal labour on farms, plantations, in fisheries and industry. Their daily food needs are met primarily through local production, foraging, hunting and fishing - often by women - on small farms, common grazing lands and in woods, forests, streams, rivers and lakes. *Reduced access to these ecosystems or decrease in the foods gathered in these environments can result in hunger and acute malnutrition.* *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=79> 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 edition Nyeleni newsletter now online!!!
by Nyéleni newsletter 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

* <http://www.nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_10_EN.p…>**EN Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in USA* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=71> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* *Read the first edition of the newsletter about the situation of one region!This edition explores the relation between Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in the * *United States.Food Sovereignty* emerged as La ViaCampesina’s bold response to the “free trade” regimes destroying livelihoods around the world. It’s been taken up widely by communities around the World reeling from the spread of agrofuels, GMOs, land grabs and the “privatization of everything.” Food Sovereignty reflects the deep resistance of people’s historical struggles against exploitation, oppression and colonization. When communities fighting for their rights discover the principles of food sovereignty, their reaction is often “Yes! That’s what we’re doing!” *Food justice* is one such struggle. The radical roots of food justice in the United States are deep in the movement for Black Liberation. *Click here to download the English edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=71> 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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Nyeleni newsletter on Nutrition!
by Nyéleni newsletter 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

* <http://www.nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/newsletters/Nyeleni_Newsletter_Num_10_EN.p…>**EN Nutrition and Food Sovereignty* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=68> *The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!* Human nutrition refers to the interaction between food and the human body, and the resulting health and wellbeing of individuals. The best source of nutrition continues to be breastfeeding and diversified rich traditional foods developed by cultures throughout history. Nutrition is only one of the dimensions of eating linked to human health. The best way to guarantee adequate nutrition is through the provision of diversified, safe, and balanced diets, based on local fresh produce which is agroecologically produced, and prepared according to cultural practices. *Nutrition cannot be separated from food, production models, food systems or eating practices.* *Click here to download the english edition* <http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=68> 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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