Europe & Central Asia

WHAT WE DO

Our work in the region

Working space

IPC is represented by the Nyéléni Europe and Central Asia Food Sovereignty Movement (Nyéléni ECA). Nyéléni ECA is a political and social alliance of grassroots, community based movements and organizations, representing small-scale food producers: peasants/small farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, small-scale fisher people, agriculture and food workers; and supporting constituencies, such as urban poor; rural and urban women’s and youth organisations; consumers, environmental, justice, solidarity, human rights organizations; community-based food movements, which politically respect the 6 principles of Food Sovereignty as agreed at the First Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Forum and sign up to the Nyéléni Europe Declaration from 2011.

The Facilitation Committee is composed of 5 active member organisations of the social movement constituencies in particular food producers. The nomination of the representatives follows autonomous consultation within the constituencies represented in the Facilitation Committee. In order to guarantee fluid communication and work between existing IPC processes in the Region, the Facilitation Committee of the CSOs in Europe and Central Asia is represented by 3 members of Nyéléni Europe and Central Asia Facilitation Committee from different constituencies.

Nyeleni ECA – Cluj Napoca Forum Report 2016 [IPC publication]

Nyeleni ECA – More farmers better food [IPC publication]

Nyeleni ECA – Structure [IPC publication]

Organization

ECVC – European Coordination Via Campesina, small-scale farmers constituency

URGENCI – The International Network of Community Supported Agriculture, consumers constituency

CSIPN – Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North, indigenous peoples constituency

WFFP – World Forum of Fisher Peoples, fisher peoples constituency

ESN/ European Chapter of WAMIP – The World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists constituency

• Producation and consumption

  Changing how food is produced and consumed with specific focus on small-scale, localized, sustainable and agroecological food systems;

• Distribution

  Changing how food is distributed to guarantee short supply chains and the re-establishment and the strengthening of territorial markets;

• Work and social conditions

  Valuing work and improving social conditions in food and agricultural systems to encourage fair labour relations, to increase the share of added value that goes to producer and local structures, and to ensure a living wage;

• Natural resources and commons

  Reclaiming and asserting the right to land, water and other natural resources and the Commons;

• Public policies

  Changing public policies governing our food and agricultural systems to advance food sovereignty in Europe, also considering its influence to other regions of the world;