After the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka in September 2025, which brought together over 500 representatives of social movements and grassroots organizations from across the world, the Common Political Action Agenda (CPAA) that will guide the movement actions in the years to come is finally out.
Le Comité international de planification pour la souveraineté alimentaire publie son document de position en amont de la Conférence internationale sur la réforme agraire et le développement rural – CIRADR+20, appelant à une réforme agraire transformative fondée sur la souveraineté alimentaire.Le Comité international de planification pour la souveraineté alimentaire publie son document de position en amont de la Conférence internationale sur la réforme agraire et le développement rural – CIRADR+20, appelant à une réforme agraire transformative fondée sur la souveraineté alimentaire.
The Kandy Declaration calls on movements everywhere to act in unity, defend the commons, and transform global governance so that it serves people, not profit.
Musa Sowe, Second Vice President of ROPPA (Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations of West Africa) and Africa representative in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), has long been at the forefront of grassroots agroecological movements. Speaking from the Global Forum for Food Sovereignty in Kandy, Sri Lanka, he shares how agroecology has reshaped lives in his community, from farming practices to power structures.
This interview with Martín Drago, coordinator of the Food Sovereignty program at Friends of the Earth International and member of the global steering committee, highlights what is at stake in this historic moment. For Martín, Nyéléni in Sri Lanka is not an endpoint but a milestone — a space to validate and advance a joint political agenda that dismantles oppression, resists fascism and neoliberalism, and puts democracy and the rights of peoples at the center. It is a call to deepen convergence across movements and regions, to forge hope in times of crisis, and to build the power needed for systemic transformation from the ground up.
As part of the journey toward the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, we are sharing the latest poster, which represents the convergence of all sectors and movements participating in the process: small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, food chain workers, daily wage and migrant laborers in urban and rural areas, feminist and climate justice movements, advocates for social and solidarity economies and health for all, consumer groups, and other service and manufacturing sector workers. This third poster visualizes how these diverse struggles and transformative proposals intertwine, showing the collective strength in building people-led systemic change. It serves as a graphic reminder that agroecology, food sovereignty, climate justice, and the commons are strengthened when social movements organize and act together.
In our latest episode, we chat with Dražen Šimleša from Croatia’s Green Network of Activist Groups and RIPESS Europe about what a just economy really means today—and how it’s already being built. From fair wages and democratic workplaces to sustainable local economies and global solidarity, Dražen gives us a grounded, practical view of how solidarity economy works in real life.
Food is more than what ends up on our plates—it carries culture, identity, and the wisdom of generations. At the heart of the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, delegates from all over the world gather to share stories, strategies, and visions for a just and sustainable food system. In this conversation, we hear from Mariann Bassey, who represents the African region and the Respect and Diversity group at the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, about how these principles connect to food sovereignty, the power of communities to resist corporate control, and the ways traditional knowledge continues to shape the fight for nourishing, culturally rooted food.
On the doorstep of the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, to be held in the city of Kandy, in the heart of Sri Lanka, Paola Romero, Director of FIAN Colombia, political scientist, and expert in gender, feminism, and food sovereignty, shares her reflections in an interview. In it, she explains how they have historically worked to advance the human right to adequate food and nutrition, a commitment intertwined with the promotion of food sovereignty and agroecology—fundamental pillars to ensure justice and sustainability in food systems.
From Kurdistan to Palestine, from resisting extractivism to building feminist media, Yıldız Temürtürkan of the World March of Women shares powerful stories of self-determination, global solidarity, and the fight for peace with justice. Women on the frontlines are turning pain into action, and action into change.
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