Axis for convergence
Axis for convergence

Axis for convergence

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Peasant farmers

Food and human rights : The New UN Working Group for the Implementation of Peasants’ Rights

As part of our special February series dedicated to food and human rights, we interviewed Geneviève Savigny, a peasant and the president of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2024-2025). In this conversation, we discuss the recent formation of this working group and its role in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).

In this interview, Geneviève Savigny highlights the importance of the new UN working group, the challenges in implementing UNDROP, and the role that peasant movements and the Nyéléni Forum can play in this process.

Nyéléni Near East and North Africa Peoples’ democracy, peace, and international solidarity Publications and Resources

Diary of two peasant women in Palestina : Day 1 and 2

From December 8 to 18, 2024, a delegation from La Via Campesina visited Palestine, in the West Bank. Fanny and Morgan, two farmers from Ardèche and Brittany, members of the Confédération Paysanne in France and part of the delegation, share their travel journal from these ten days in Palestine that transformed their worldview.

Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Health for all Nyéléni Latin America and the Caribbean

Agrotoxics Kill: The Experience in Paraguay

The fight against agrotoxics in Paraguay dates back to the arrival of genetically modified soybeans, which came bundled with a technological package. This package includes the use of fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, and other desiccants. Combined with other elements, it has sparked continuous confrontation with the peasant population. While the intensity of this resistance has fluctuated over time, it has been shaped by the economic and political power wielded to impose the agribusiness model in the country. This aggressive model took hold forcefully, displacing entire communities.

Health for all People’s Economy Publications and Resources

People’s Health Movement calls for action against corporate dominance in global health and economy

During the 5th People’s Health Assembly (PHA 5) held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in April 2024, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) is raising its voice against the overwhelming control of transnational corporations (TNCs) over the global economy, health, and welfare systems. In a stand against the corporatization, marketization, and colonization of public goods, PHM is spotlighting the dire consequences of corporate dominance, emphasizing the pressing need for systemic change.

Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Health for all

‘Por la Tierra’, documentary series: exposing contamination, plunder, and human rights violations by agribusiness

As part of our month dedicated to Agroecology, Nyéléni is pleased to share the following article, originally published on the Agrotóxico Mata: Permanent Campaign Against Pesticides and for Life website. This initiative brings together the MPA, the CONAQ, the MPP, the MST, the PJR, Vía Campesina Brazil, and many other movements and civil society organizations across Latin America.

Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Publications and Resources

Food Sovereignty Explained

This animation film succinctly explains the Food Sovereignty principles. It explains how Food Sovereignty places us – the peasants and all other small-scale food producers- at the heart of food systems, instead of powerful corporations, by building on the principles of solidarity, collectivism and social justice. Food Sovereignty defends our past, present and future generations, and is an alternative to a destructive and harmful industrial food system.

Climate Justice and Energy Sovereignty Land, Territories, and Agrarian Reform Publications and Resources

Indigenous Peoples and Just Transition: Perspectives, Knowledge, and Lived Experiences

As Indigenous Peoples, we affirm that the concept of a just transition as it is currently presented is not true, as it implies initiatives and proposals driven by transnational corporations and States to implement and consolidate the free-market economic model, neoliberalism, and deepens the inequalities of the capitalist system.

2nd Nyéléni Global Forum Food Sovereignty and Agroecology

About the 2nd Nyéléni Global Forum 2015

At the 2nd Nyéléni Global Forum, held at the Nyéléni Center in Mali in February 2015, delegates from diverse organizations representing small-scale food producers—peasants, Indigenous Peoples, family farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, and rural workers—gathered to affirm Agroecology as a pillar of Food Sovereignty.