As the Secretariat of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), Crocevia is supporting the Nyéléni Process, the global convergence of food sovereignty movements that will lead to a Nyéléni Global Forum in India in 2025. In the first two weeks of September we’ve been in Bangaore, India, to organise the preparatory meetings that will lay the groundwork for a summit that is expected to bring together around 500 people.
This multi-year process of convergence, regularly organised with and for movements, consists of global and regional consultations to bring together small-scale food organisations and their allies, from climate justice organisations to global health or social and solidarity economy organisations. The process is supported by the most radical parts of the academia and some NGOs which are historically close to the movements, like Crocevia, TNI, Friends of the Earth, Focus on the Global South, ETC Group, Fian and others.
The Nyéléni process is named after a peasant woman from Sirakoro, a rural village in south-west Mali. The movements gathered in Mali, in Selingué, at the first global forum on agroecology and food sovereignty in 2007, named this process after her. Now, as then, we want to bring together thousands of organisations to find common ways of acting to change a development model that destroys ecosystems and marginalises rights-holders. This is a huge undertaking, requiring coordination and support work to build alliances and common political agendas in the regions and territories where the IPC is active. In this endeavour, the role of Crocevia is crucial in supporting the efforts of all the actors involved.
