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NYÉLÉNI - EUROPE MOVEMENT FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY - AT A GLANCE

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Nyeleni Europe Forum starts on the 26th October. You may find background documents on the Thematic Axes, practical information on the process and the programme in English here, French here, German here, Russian here, Spanish here, Turkish here.

 

Food Sovereignty. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.


The Movement in Europe. Nyéléni Europe is the widest international movement aiming to realize food sovereignty in Europe. It aims to build common strategies in order to re-organize the way we structure our society around food and agriculture today.

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Nyéléni- Europe Movement for Food Sovereignty

Food sovereignty is a policy framework advocated by farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples, women, rural youth, environmental organisations and other supportive constituencies. It was launched in 1996 by the international peasants' movement La Via Campesina during the FAO World Food Summit in Rome. Since then, food sovereignty has played an increasingly important role in the debate on agriculture and alternatives to neoliberal policies. The food sovereignty movement is continuously growing in the Pan-European region. Do you want to join the 2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum in October 2016? Then engage in your national preparatory process and get in contact with your national focal points.

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02/11/2016
Marginal People's Nyeleni Europe 2016 statement

« Food Sovereignty implies new social relations, free of oppression and inequality between men and women, peoples, racial groups, social and economic classes and generations. » - Nyeleni Mali Declaration 2007

What this is saying is that to have real food sovereignty, rights for and over food production, processing and eating, there needs to be justice between women and men, black and white and brown, rich and poor, young and old.

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Nyéléni Forum 2007, Mali

In 2007 an alliance of social movements took the initiative to organise an international meeting on food sovereignty in Mali. The principle of food sovereignty was first launched by Via Campesina in 1996 during the FAO World Food Summit which took place in Rome. It is a policy framework advocated by a number of farmers’, peasants’, pastoralists’, fisherfolk, Indigenous Peoples’, women’s, rural youth and environmental organisations.

Since then food sovereignty has played an increasingly important role in the debate on agriculture and alternatives to neoliberal policies. Before the introduction of the food sovereignty policy framework, food security was limited to searching for ways to guarantee sufficient food through trade or food aid, at national or international levels. Food sovereignty puts agricultural producers and consumers at the core of the debate, and supports all peoples in their right to produce their own food independent of international market conditions, and to consume local foods.

In view of the failure of neo-liberal policies and the deteriorating living conditions of both rural and urban societies, a growing number of political decision makers and social movements are taking an interest in food sovereignty. A group composed of Friends of the Earth International, Via Campesina, the World March of Women, ROPPA, WFF and WFFP organised Nyéléni 2007, the World Forum for Food Sovereignty.

The forum in Mali brought together more than 500 representatives from more than 80 countries. Organisations representing peasants/family farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, landless peoples, rural workers, migrants, pastoralists, forest communities, women, youth, consumers, environmental and urban movements gathered together in the village of Nyéléni in Sélingué, Mali to strengthen a global movement for food sovereignty. This gathering was a great opportunity and a great milestone to reaffirm the right to food sovereignty and to clarify its economic, social, ecological and political implications. It also strived to create an international process with the aim of achieving recognition of the right to food sovereignty. The organisers made a deliberate decision to hold this meeting in Africa, where agriculture plays a central role, and where numerous rural and urban families suffer from hunger despite the abundance of natural resources. Mali was a natural choice. It is a democratic country where civil society organisations, be they trade unions or other types of association, enjoy freedom of action and expression. Mali is one of the first countries in the world to have made food sovereignty a policy priority with its new agricultural framework law.

This forum was the inspiration for the European food sovereignty movement to get together in 2011 and agree on the Nyéléni Europe Declaration.

Nyéléni Europe 2011, Austria

The Nyéléni Europe Forum in Austria acted as a catalyst for opening a space in Europe to define the struggles and strategies necessary to create a movement for Food Sovereignty which can challenge the dominant forces of production and consumption present in today's society. The vision of food sovereignty for Europe is based on the principles defined at the Nyéléni forum in 2007. The Nyéléni Europe forum brought more than 400 women and men together from 34 European countries from the Atlantic to the Urals and Caucasus, and from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, as well as international representatives from diverse social movements and civil society organizations from across the world.  The aim of the meeting  held from the 16th to the 21st of August 2011 in Krems, Austria was to take a step forward in the development of a European movement for Food Sovereignty. The process for this Forum was initiated by the European Coordination Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth Europe, ATTAC Europe, Vredeseilanden, the IPC for Food Sovereignty, and the International March of Women, as well as national platforms for Food Sovereignty in Hungary, Austria and other countries.

The results from Krems are the Nyéléni Europe Declaration, and the Synthesis Report and Action Plan. The Declaration outlines our common vision for, and commitments to realizing food sovereignty in Europe. The Action Plan was prepared  to put our visions into practice. This document is organised around three keywords: transform, resist and build. We transform the current agricultural system, resist the agro-industrial food system and build the movement for food sovereignty in Europe.

Here you can watch the movie Nyeleni Europe 2011 - European Forum for Food Sovereignty - Krems, Austria 16-21 August (English Subtitles).


31/10/2016
Pan-European Forum in Romania wraps up: food sovereignty takes root in Eastern Europe

Press release: Cluj-Napoca, October 31st – The fight back against industrial agriculture and for a just and sustainable future for farming and peasant farmers took a leap forward this week as the largest-ever European Forum on food sovereignty concluded. [1]

 

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27/10/2016
European states must negotiate actively and constructively towards a #BindingTreaty to #StopCorporateAbuse now!

600 people gathering in Cluj-Napoca Romania at the Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty call for a stop to corporate abuse and call on their governments to support a binding UN treaty to make transnational corporations (TNCs) – including agribusiness giants and their financiers – accountable for human rights abuses.

Enough is enough! More than three people were killed a week in 2015 defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries and corporations. In total, this meant 185 known deaths – by far the highest toll on record and a 59% increase from 2014.

7 December 2016

Land speculation and land concentration are an increasing threat to small to medium sized family farms and prospective farmers in Europe. Soaring land prices make it increasingly difficult for farmers to buy or rent farmland. In some regions of Europe investors are buying up enormous pieces of land, sometimes using legal loopholes. In other parts of Europe, arable land, pastures and forests are highly concentrated since centuries, leading to negative effects for rural development.

This event, organised by the European Economic and…

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