Sri Lanka is undergoing one of the most complex economic recoveries in its history. The country’s financial collapse in 2022 was precipitated by a toxic mix of unsustainable borrowing, poor fiscal management, and external shocks.
Mass protests erupted under the banner of Aragalaya, a broad-based citizens’ movement demanding accountability, economic justice, and an end to political corruption.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Main ideas taken from the case study “Community Supported Agriculture – blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons …
Women in Lebanon from different backgrounds worked for a year through a series of public workshops and graphic design collectives, where intersectional feminist thought and feminist visual representation were discussed. The result is the captivating Bakura calendar.
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.
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.
That patriarchal, capitalist, colonizing powers are launching renewed terrorist offensives on peoples of the global south. We can only resist them through a collective grassroots and intersectional world view.
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