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• Newsletter no 47 - Small-scale fishers : Struggles and mobilisations
  14 March, by Manu

  Small-scale fishers: Struggles and mobilisations
  Illustration by Cara Penton, @CaraPenton
  The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to highlight the importance of artisanal fishing and aquaculture.
  Over the past ten years, and even more so since the pandemic, blue economy initiatives have been blooming. The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit advanced the notion of “Blue Foods”, which first and foremost means aquaculture. In (...)

• Newsletter no 13 - Food Sovereignty
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  “Every struggle, in any part of the world for food sovereignty is our struggle.”
  Nyéléni Declaration on Food Sovereignty
  At the World Food Summit in 1996, La Via Campesina (LVC) launched a concept that both challenged the corporate dominated, market driven model of globalised food production and distribution, as well as offering a new paradigm to fight hunger and poverty by developing and strengthening local economies. Since then, food sovereignty has captured the imagination of people the (...)

• Newsletter no 25 - Corporate governance of food systems
  15 March 2016, by Manu

  Editorial: Blocking the path of corporate governance of food systems (Illustration: Daniel Pudles, danielpudles.co.uk)
  From our oceans and seashores, crossing our lands and reaching deep into the minerals of our earth, there is a dangerous threat dominating our current political and economic relations around the world: the so-called private corporate capture of policy-making public spaces. For decades, civil society and social movements have been struggling to democratically (...)

• Newsletter no 17 - Youth and Agriculture
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  There will be no future for Food Sovereignty without the participation of young people – young people that are committed to the historical struggle for the liberation of our peoples and the transformation of our reality. As the Youth of La Vía Campesina (LVC), we must recognize the dignity and value in the work we do to maintain our struggles. During the 3rd International Assembly of the Youth of La Via Campesina, we identified the major areas of struggle as - Agroecology, Climate Change and (...)

• Newsletter no 45 - Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems
  24 September 2021, by Manu

  Editorial
  Food sovereignty – resisting corporate capture of our food systems
  This year marks 25 years since the paradigm of food sovereignty was launched at the World Food Summit 1996 in Rome as a direct challenge to market-based food security promoted through the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Food sovereignty asserts the autonomy and agency of small-scale food producers and workers in the face of increasing corporate power over the entire realm of food. Since its launch, the food (...)

• Newsletter no 29 - FTAs and Agriculture
  14 March 2017, by Manu

  Editorial: FTAs and Agriculture
  Illustration : Anthony Freda | www.AnthonyFreda.com
  There is growing distrust and mobilisation against Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). FTAs hurt food sovereignty because they:
  – Erase the possibility of public strategies supporting local markets.
  – Lower or remove tariffs on imported goods, hurting local small-scale food producers who cannot compete with large subsidised agribusiness imports.
  – Harmonise standards on food safety, pesticides, GMOs and (...)

• Newsletter no 30 - Advancing Food Sovereignty
  10 July 2017, by Manu

  Editorial - Advancing the Paradigm of Food Sovereignty Illustration: Angelo Monne | www.angelomonne.com
  This year marks the tenth anniversary of the historic International Forum on Food Sovereignty that was held Mali in 2007. The Forum brought together more than 500 peasants, fishers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, workers, migrants, women, youth, consumers, researchers and press/media from 80 countries to build a global movement on food sovereignty. The Forum was named Nyéléni, as (...)

• Newsletter no 0 - Land
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  Fair winds for the Nyéléni newsletter!
  Following the International Forum on Food Sovereignty held in Mali in February 2007, the social movements that brought this initiative to life have decided to create a tool for communication and exchange in order to continue the fight for food sovereignty and to defend the interests of disadvantaged groups such as small-scale farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples and pastoralists. The situation of these groups continues to deteriorate due to the (...)

• Newsletter no 32 - Climate Justice
  14 December 2017, by Manu

  Illustration Alex Nabaum - alexnabaum.com
  Climate Justice Poem
  Oh! Oh! Nature mourns, Humanity perishes!
  Why? Seasons have changed
  Now unpredictable and unreliable!
  Hotter, drier and shorter!
  Winds and storms harsher and destructive
  Mother Earth mourns, the land is barren.
  Women, men and children, plants and animals perish!
  Capitalist industrial agriculture, what have you done?
  Everywhere, Mother Earth crumbles
  As toxics and harmful GMO seeds swell her belly.
  Heavy machines (...)

• Newsletter no 10 - "Green" Economy
  2 April 2014, by Manu

  This June in Rio de Janeiro the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 will be held, marking two decades since the Earth Summit. The “green” economy will be the main theme of discussion and debates at the Rio+20 summit, this concept represents a way of transforming the environmental crisis into a tool for capital accumulation – considering that in current times the capitalist system regards markets as the primary medium for responding to the global environmental crisis, (...)

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