In this multimedia article, we explore how agribusiness—focused on generating profits rather than feeding people—causes hunger and disease. The dominant food system, controlled by large corporations, endangers the lives of marginalized communities through the mass production of ultra-processed foods and the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals.
For many of us, the word ‘commons’ will bring up associations to natural resources as land, and perhaps to earlier times when the commoners, the lay people as peasants were called, were allowed to use the commons to find firewood and gather food. In Europe, the enclosure of those commons with the onset of privatisation in the 18th century put an end to this. The end of these communal forms of agriculture led to the precarization of women’s lives in particular as it destroyed their means of livelihood and weakened their social power. But the commons can actually be referring to so much more, in fact to a paradigm shift taking us in the very opposite direction of capitalism.
In this interview, Saúl Vicente Vázquez highlights the urgent struggle of Indigenous peoples to defend their lands as a vital act of protecting the environment and sustaining life itself. He emphasizes the inseparable connection between territorial rights and environmental justice, calling for collective action to safeguard Indigenous territories against exploitation and destruction. Saúl’s testimony underscores the need for global recognition of Indigenous sovereignty as essential to a just and dignified future for all.
In 2019, the UN adopted a first version of a resolution supporting the social and solidarity economy. Since then, numerous advocacy and mobilization efforts have been undertaken to preserve the essence of this concept and prevent it from being diluted into approaches more focused on “social business” or entrepreneurship, which do not challenge the current unsustainable and unjust economic system.
While a multipolar world is on the horizon, the demands for the Right to Land and the Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform, Food Sovereignty and denunciations against criminalization and persecution of social leaders, remain in force and active as the fundamental basis of historical struggles that have brought victories to the peasant movement.
The People Health Movement and the Food Sovereignty Movement will stand side by side in the Nyéléni Global Forum, to strengthen their connections and show the world that there can be no global health without food sovereignty, just as the food system must be based on the concept of care in order to unleash its transformative potential. In this interview with Marcos Filardi, Roman Vega, David Legge and Lauren Paremoer, from PHM, we explore interconnections between two of the global movements coming together in this Nyéléni Process.
Today, in the run-up to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, we make an urgent call to unite and act collectively against the capitalist system that continues to advance in a destructive and exploitative manner. It is crucial that we center solidarity, mutual respect, and self-criticism in our struggles, as only through these principles can we build a more just and sustainable future for all. The global challenges threatening our food sovereignty and social justice cannot be ignored.
The Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) met on February 26-28, 2025, that took place in turbulent times, it would be easy to …
As part of the month of Working Women’s Struggle, the voices of pastoralist women resonate strongly from different corners of the world. Their leadership, resilience, and deep knowledge of their territories are essential for the sustainability of their communities and the ecosystems they inhabit. During a recent webinar organized by WAMIP (the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists), Mamankhuu Sodnom from Mongolia, Megha Sheth from India, Monicah Yator from Kenya, and Marite Álvarez from Argentina, shared their experiences, challenges, and pathways to women’s empowerment in pastoralism.
Main ideas taken from the case study “Community Supported Agriculture – blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons …
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