September 18, 2025
After two weeks in Sri Lanka, where the IPC collaborated to organize the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, movement representatives returned home.
These were intense days of tireless work and powerful emotions. Over 700 people, including 420 delegates from grassroots movements across all world regions, came together to shape a Common Political Action Agenda. Discussions at the National Institute of Cooperative Development in Kandy led to a list of priority actions and timelines to jointly launch or strengthen global campaigns and bottom-up mobilisations. A joint declaration, read in several languages by members of the Global Steering Committee, closed the Forum.
This process was made possible by the work of hundreds of staff and volunteers who dedicated themselves to finance, communication, logistics, and care for the spaces.
Much remains to be done to implement the proposals that emerged. For the first time, the food sovereignty movement opened up to allied but different struggles, including movements for health for all, climate justice, and the social and solidarity economy. This diversity was also reflected in the key element for convergence: if in 2007 the focus was food sovereignty, and in 2015 agroecology, in 2025 the unifying call has been systemic transformation.
Turning this vision into reality will be a difficult mission, but one we are committed to pursuing together. The Common Political Action Agenda and Declaration will be finalised in the coming weeks, integrating the inputs collected during the Forum.
We, the IPC, will continue to do our part in building collective answers to the crises of a warming planet, driven by the violent neoliberal rationale and by wars on people, as the ongoing genocide in Gaza tragically shows.
Stay tuned.