Under the eye of Nyéléni, an African woman who defied discriminatory
regulations and burned with creativity and agricultural progress, we will find
the energy to transform the right to food sovereignty into a beacon for the
construction of another world. [Women’s declaration on food sovereignty]
As the world lurches from one crisis to another, Nyéléni symbolizes the
convergence of our struggles and commitments to build a world free of greed,
hunger, exploitation, extractivism, misogyny, racism, discrimination, and
violence. Since 2007, Nyéléni has been a space where we meet in order to build
collective strategies to advance food sovereignty, rights to land and territories,
agroecology, and the rights of all small-scale food providers. Our articulations
have given us the strength to organize against capitalism, neoliberalism,
corporate power, patriarchy, and ecocide.