3rd Nyéléni Global Forum
3rd Nyéléni Global Forum

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Land, Territories, and Agrarian Reform

The right to see things as a Commons (and the potential for systemic change through the working towards Food as a Commons)

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.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum

Towards the 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum: converging to build a joint political action agenda for systemic transformation

As the forum approaches, it seems an ambitious Nyeleni process after having had to reroute recently following a politically too challenging context in India where the forum originally was intended to take place, is well on its way to deliver its main message in September in Sri Lanka : the time to collectively rally behind Systemic transformation is here and now! 

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Land, Territories, and Agrarian Reform Nyéléni Latin America and the Caribbean

Defending the Land is defending the Environment and Life: An urgent call for Territories

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.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Nyéléni Newsletters

Newsletter #60: Resisting the threat of global finance, building food sovereignty

The 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum is set to take place in Sri Lanka this September. Sri Lanka is a deliberate choice: in 2022, a people’s uprising—known as Aragalaya—ousted a corrupt neoliberal regime that had plunged the country into a severe debt crisis and societal distress

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Press release

From debt crisis to resistance : Sri Lanka hosts key gathering ahead of global convergence of movements

Sri Lanka — shaped by the violence of debt and the strength of popular resistance — is no random choice. After ousting a neoliberal regime, movements here are building alternatives — and we’re here to build them together.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum People’s Economy

Social and solidarity economy: an idea born out of the alterglobalization movements and then recognized by the United Nations

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.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Peasant farmers

From April 17 to the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, let’s rise for people’s sovereignty!

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.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Health for all

Health for all is inextricably linked to the achievement of food sovereignty

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.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Nyéléni Newsletters

Newsletter #59 : Waves of resistance: Fisher peoples defending food sovereignty

In a rapidly changing world, beset by war and billionaire oligarchs, fishing livelihoods remain ignored in policy discussions. US President Trump’s ‘drill baby drill’ agenda, worldwide extractivism, neo-protectionist nature enclosure through 30by30 (Global Biodiversity Framework), government-backed aquaculture expansion, and profit-driven mega projects continue eroding fisher peoples’ territories and livelihoods.

3rd Nyéléni Global Forum Food Sovereignty and Agroecology Nyéléni Latin America and the Caribbean Women

World March of Women : ON THE ROAD TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

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.