Starting a European movement for food sovereignty

Theme of the outcome

Working for a sustainable world, food sovereignity, environmental and climate justice

Description of the outcome

Malmö, September 2008

Building a European movement for 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. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.”
Declaration of Nyéléni, February 2007

With the explosion of food prices, the enduring food crisis has become global and has finally put the question of food on the political agenda across Europe. In Europe and globally we face the ecological and social crisis of the current model of food production, which destroys sustainable family farming and replaces it with corporate-controlled industrial agriculture.

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We thus commit ourselves to work together respecting each other identities and specificities to build a European movement for food sovereignty.

We commit ourselves to the followings steps forwards in the coming months:

Creating an e-mail list for all people working on food sovereignty in Europe. This list can include all organizations committed to food sovereignty and who can subscribe to the Nyéléni statement (see in annex);
Using the 17th of April (Global day of Peasants Struggles) and the 16th of October (World Food Day) as date for joint mobilizations around Europe for food sovereignty;
Working together towards a European Forum for food sovereignty in late 2009 or early 2010.
Ensuring a strong presence and visibility of the food sovereignty movement in the anti-G8, anti-WTO/FTA and Climate Justice mobilizations in 2009; and
Struggling together against agrofuel and for energy sovereignty.

To sign this call, please send an e-mail to info@nyeleni.eu