Send a UK delegation to Nyeleni Europe
Cluj-Napoca
Aim
Help fund a UK delegation to attend a crucial event to build a big inspiring food sovereignty movement across Europe.
Over a thousand people will be gathering in Cluj-Napoca in Romania for a European Forum for Food Sovereignty (Nyéléni Europe) this October.
This gathering is all about building a big inspiring food sovereignty movement across Europe. Participants will be coming from over 30 countries representing different parts of the food system including producers, consumers, activists, researchers, community-workers plus people with an interest in the environment, social justice, human rights and development.
This is a unique opportunity for the UK food movement to meet and learn from inspiring, like-minded people from across Europe. We want to send a delegation of 40 people, but we need your help to make it happen.
Can you make a contribution to help fund the UK delegation to attend this important movement-building gathering?
Every £450 raised enables 2 people to go to Romania. The members of the delegation are not just going as individuals, but on behalf of all the people in the food sovereignty movement in the UK. We want to organise meetings to enable the delegation to collect input from the wider UK food movement to take to the forum and when they come back to feed back proposals that we could take forward here in the UK.
Please donate!
Any amount - large or small - will help towards building a strong and vibrant food sovereignty movement both here and across Europe.
Background to the Nyéléni Europe Forum
The springboard of the global food sovereignty movement was the landmark international Nyéléni 2007 Forum for Food Sovereignty in Mali where 500 representatives from food producer, consumer and environmental movements from around the world came together. At this Forum six principles and the Nyéléni Declaration were adopted.
This was followed by a European Nyéléni Forum in 2011 in Krems, Austria, where the Nyéléni Europe Declaration and an action plan were agreed upon.
The UK delegation returned inspired from Krems and the first UK food sovereignty gathering was held in 2012. Out of this came the UK food sovereignty movement and also the Land Workers Alliance. Last year, the second UK food sovereignty gathering was held.
In February 2015 an International Forum for Agroecology was held in the Nyéléni centre in Mali, and produced a report and declaration.
These documents provide the political basis of the movement, and clarify what it stands for and what it opposes.
The Nyéléni Europe Movement brings together farmers, fishers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, consumers, NGOs, trade unions, organisations working on the environment, development, justice, solidarity and human rights, researchers, community-based food movements and others to enhance existing food sovereignty initiatives and strengthen our work at local, national, regional and global levels.
The forum will focus on five areas:
1. Changing how food is produced and consumed
2. Changing how food is distributed
3. Valuing work and improving social conditions in food & agricultural systems
4. Reclaiming the right to natural resources and the Commons
5. Changing public policies governing our food and agricultural systems.
Further information:
This project successfully funded on 16th September 2016