This article was first published in Peasants Voice, the All Nepal Peasant Federation (ANPFa) Bulletin, in May 2022. In this article Pramesh Pokharel, who is General Secretary of ANPFa, introduces the UNDROP and encourages Nepalese peasants to appropriate the UNDROP and use it for their struggles. Background We know about various United Nations instruments to…
This briefing notes was originally published on Fian’s website, on March 29, 2018. You can find it here. This note was written as inputs for the negotiations of the UNDROP and published before its adoption in December 2018. Nonetheless, it is still very pertinent to this day, firstly because it discuss a version of the…
RESEARCH BRIEF This research brief was first published by the Geneva Academy, you can find it here. Peasants and other people working in rural areas, including fisherfolk, pastoralists and herders feed between 70 and 80 per cent of the world population, but they represent 80 per cent of those suffering from hunger, food insecurity and…
Feminist materials on the right to food and nutrition for women in rural areas “Cooking up political agendas” was first published on Fian international website on September 7, 2020. You can find it here. With “Cooking up political agenda” Fian international proposes a full set of tools to organize struggles for the right to food…
On March 31st, 2022 the Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI) inaugurated the Food Sovereignty Area (KDP) in Ciaruteun Ilir Village, Cibungbulang District, Bogor Regency, West Java. This food sovereignty area is a concrete example of the local realization of the rights of peasants, as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and…
Nyeleni Newsletter, n°47, March 2022 Nyeleni Newsletter is the voice of the international movement committed to the defence of peoples’ rights to food sovereignty around the political platform constituted by the Nyeleni Declaration 2007. The website dedicated to its publication brings together fifteen organisations: Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), FIAN International, Focus on…
