Systemic transformation is NOW or NEVER!
Seventeen years have passed since the first Nyéléni Global Forum as held in Mali in 2007, bringing together social movements from all around the word united in the struggle for Food sovereignty. Since then, the Food sovereignty movement has steadily grown, gaining momentum in its fight for individual and collective rights, promoting agroecology as a way of life and as a mean to counter climate change, amplifying the voice and perspectives of small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, consumers and other groups in international policy making spaces, among several other actions.
However, much remains to be done.
The world is currently going through profound and intertwined crises. We are confronted with famines ravaging entire regions, rising poverty exacerbated by soaring fuel and food prices deregulation, relentless wars and genocides, natural disasters driven by climate change, pandemics devastating our communities, increasing corporate takeovers at all levels corrupting institutions that have become incapable of providing real solutions. Amid this chaos, communities, small-scale food producers, and Indigenous Peoples are increasingly dispossessed of their lands and natural resources, stripping them of their livelihoods and control over the environments they have long protected, undermining the grassroots struggle for food sovereignty.
These global crises underscore the urgent need for systemic transformations that return power to the people. A paradigm shift is necessary to reclaim our right to shape our own food, environmental, health, political, economic, trade, educational, and justice systems. These systems must serve the common good and prioritize life over the interests of capital and domination. It is crucial to recognize and promote the struggles of social movements advocating for food sovereignty, participatory democracy, community empowerment, solidarity, cooperation among peoples, and peace, while developing real solutions to these interconnected crises.
We call for a permanent mobilization within and beyond the movement for Food sovereignty to unite Indigenous Peoples, peasants, fishers, pastoralists, artisans, waged workers, migrants and racialized communities, trade unions, people with disabilities, gender and sexual marginalized groups, feminists, people living in urban poverty, activists for the right to the city, promoters of the social and solidarity economy, food consumers, healthcare workers, peace builders and human rights defenders, academics and researchers, and artists. Together, we raise our voices to build responses at both global and local levels, joining our struggles with those rising against injustice in every corner of the planet, demanding a new world free from oppressions, exploitations, discriminations, and inequalities.
Systemic transformation is NOW or NEVER!
Inspired by Nyéléni, a peasant woman who fought for the rights of peasants—particularly women peasants—in Mali centuries ago, and by the two previous Nyéléni forums named after her and that successfully brought together thousands of grassroots organizations and allies across all the world, we are enthusiastically reaffirming our call for joining the process towards the “3rd Nyéléni Global Forum 2025.”
We call on all social movements, organizations, and global networks that share our demands for systemic change and stand for human rights to join an intersectional convergence aimed at building joint proposals that will drive radical and profound transformations, resulting in a robust political agenda for the coming years.
Our global process is advancing towards the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, scheduled in September 2025. At this forum, hundreds of delegates from around the world will gather to agree on strategies and real solutions capable of transforming the global system towards economic, social, gender, racial, environmental, climate, and food justice, all grounded in food sovereignty. Recognizing these interconnected challenges, we aim to make a stand and develop a joint road map for systemic transformations. This process is led by global social movements and grassroots organizations, while also welcoming NGOs, academics and researchers, as well as artists. We share a common perspective rooted in feminism, anti-racism, equity, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, anti-debt, peace, democracy, anti-extractivism, inclusivity, and diversity. We place collective rights at the center of our struggles.