Nyéléni Newsletter: Building a Collective Political Agenda for Systemic Transformation

The latest edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is out! It focuses on the Construction of the Nyéléni Process that is building a joint political agenda for Systemic Transformation.

Seventeen years have passed since 2007, when the first Nyéléni Forum took place in Mali, bringing together social movements for food sovereignty from all over the world. The movement has been growing and gaining momentum, advocating at all levels for collective rights, human rights and food sovereignty. However, much remains to be done.

The world is in unprecedented turmoil, and we are all facing deep-rooted overlapping crises. We need a paradigm shift to reclaim the right to shape our own food systems for the well-being of people and the planet.

That is why we are calling for a new mobilization within and beyond the food sovereignty movement, to build our response at both global and local levels, and tighten alliances with climate justice, antiracism, health, labour, feminist, and social and solidarity economy movements and organisations. Systemic transformation is now or never.

We, the small-scale food producers and their allies, launched a new Nyéléni process, inviting global social movements, organizations, and networks to articulate an intersectional convergence towards joint proposals for a system change. Through this multi-year process, we’ve brought together thousands of grassroots organizations and other allies across six world regions, to discuss and put forward joint proposals for a system change and a strong political agenda for the years to come. The Nyéléni Global Forum, to be held in 2025, will be the space for strategy and organization, and to kick off this new phase of the food sovereignty movement.

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