Nyéléni
process: Recognizing
the power of
people’s movements
The new
edition of the
Nyéléni newsletter
is online!
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
For any further
information, contact info@nyeleni.org
– www.nyeleni.org
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