🌍From Europe to Latin America, communities are advancing the #RtFN through advocacy, strategic litigation, territorial defense & grassroots organizing Landmark land rights victory in Ecuador, Indigenous mobilization in Brazil, & growing momentum for European Right to Food Initiative bit.ly/4fRVAc0

🎣600 million fisher peoples help feed the world Yet their commons, livelihoods, & #RightToFood are increasingly threatened by climate change, industrial aquaculture, & the so-called #BlueEconomy Our #AnnualReport2025 highlights their struggles, resistance, and demands for justice bit.ly/4fRVAc0

🌍70% of the world’s farmland is controlled by 1% of large-scale farms Land concentration is fueling inequality, displacement, & violations of the #RightToFood Our #AnnualReport2025 highlights the findings of Lords of the Land & the urgent need for agrarian reform and redistribution📖 bit.ly/4fRVAc0

🌱Rural and Indigenous women are leading struggles for food sovereignty across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean Our #AnnualReport highlights how feminist organizing is strengthening collective power, advancing the #RightToFood, and transforming food systems from the ground up bit.ly/4fRVAc0

🌍 The FIAN International Annual Report 2025 is out! Discover how communities worldwide are defending the right to food and building alternatives rooted in justice, dignity, and food sovereignty. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4fRVAc0 #RightToFood #FoodSovereignty #HumanRights

🚀Just launched: THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD💥 Food prices & hunger are rising. Crisis after crisis exposes how fragile our global food systems have become. But governments have tools to stabilise markets & reduce vulnerability. We call it resilient self-reliance. 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...

🌍Rethinking global trade in times of geopolitical tensions Nyéléni newsletter #63 is out! 💥Global multilateral system is in crisis. ⚔️ Trade and investment have become weapons: tariffs, sanctions, & financial restrictions are used for political pressure.

🌾Every meal has a story—and it begins with farmers’ labor and struggle ✊🏽April 17, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, honors the 19 landless farmers killed in Brazil in 1996 ✊🏽 Their fight for land became a global symbol of resistance against agrarian injustice.

Today, #WildSalmon are returning to the #BroughtonArchipelago after decades of #IndigenousLeadership, organizing, and action 🇨🇦🐟 This is what long-term, community-led action can achieve. Discover Canada’s #BeaconsOfHope story ➡️ https://story.futureoffood.org/beacons/canada

After decades of historical marginalization from commercial fishing, #AboriginalCommunities in northern #Australia are rebuilding local seafood economies on their own terms 🌊⚓️🦀 Discover the Australia’s #BeaconsOfHope story ➡️ https://story.futureoffood.org/beacons/australia#AboriginalCommunities#Australia#BeaconsOfHope#AquaticFoods

What affects the land, affects the sea 🌊 We’re sharing two new #BeaconsOfHope stories from 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇦. From reclaiming Aboriginal "sea country" to #FirstNations leading the fight for #WildSalmon, those closest to the struggle hold the solutions: https://story.futureoffood.org/beacons/land-water-nexus/

🌾🍽️ Public Food Programmes: A Key to Food Sovereignty 📝 By FIAN, @grain.org & @StreetNet www.fian.org/en/public-fo... 💰 Governments invest over $84 billion/year in public food programmes (like school meals).

The #BindingTreaty meant to secure access to justice for those affected by transnational corporations must centre the needs of those communities and peoples, not the desires of corporations. From the Amazon to Palestine, it’s time to #StopCorporateImpunity

At the #BindingTreaty intersessionals, we’re gathering with affected communities and social movements to demand an end to corporate impunity. Transnational corporations are sacrificing peoples and planet in the name of profit. We need a legally binding instrument to dismantle their corporate power.

Affected peoples and communities are the heart of the UN #BindingTreaty on transnational corporations and human rights The treaty needs to reflect this reality and centre their lived experiences @fian-international.bsky.social

🌍 A NEW CHAPTER FOR THE RIGHT TO FOOD 🚨 BIG NEWS! At #HRC61, UN Human Rights Council has appointed Sofía Monsalve as the new Special Rapporteur on #RtFN. Across the world, #RtFN is under pressure—driven by conflict, inequality, climate disruption, debt, & deep power imbalances in food systems.

🌍📊 Seeing Everything from Nowhere 📝 A Human Rights Assessment of FAO’s Data Governance 🔍 This case study by Sofía Monsalve Suárez (FIAN International) takes a critical look at the FAO’s data governance framework.

🌱Land is the foundation of food sovereignty 📍Human Rights Council, dialogue on the right to food: @michaelfakhri.bsky.social called on states to confront corporate control over land and food systems: “We don’t need corporations to feed us. We need peasants, women, fishers, and Indigenous Peoples”

⏰ Time to Act: Corporate Accountability for a Sustainable Future www.fian.org/en/time-to-a... #CorporateAccountability #BusinessAndHumanRights #RightToEnvironment #ClimateJustice #HumanRights

The GEN is at the #HRC61 side event, "Food, Land, and Agrarian Reform" situating the ICARRD+20 Outcomes within the #GENeva context and providing the case for redistribution. ▶️ www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/food-...

🌾 ICARRD+20 | Here´s why should we be deepening the discution on the Agrarian Reform. Voices from the global south, coparts of @fastenaktion.bsky.social ✊ Agrarian reform must center the rights, knowledge, and leadership of rural women.

✊🌎Don’t miss! Ana María Hernández @FIAN Ecuador will share insights from her work defending the right to food & accompanying peasant communities facing deepening rights violations. She’ll unpack how current geopolitical shifts & weakened multilateralism are shaping daily realities for rural Ecuador.

✊🌎Today in Geneva, Ana María Hernández and Raquel Silva delivered the report on the situation of human rights defenders in Ecuador to Special Rapporteur @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social. Grateful that hteir report is cited in the official report that she will present tomorrow to the Human Rights Council

Very pleased to have been able to meet so many human rights defenders at a roundtable event this morning in Geneva. Thanks to the @ishr.ch for organising and hosting. #HRC61

🌾 Plenary: Land, Food, Work and Life 🌱 Land, production & life are inseparable. Addressing land concentration and soil degradation is essential. If we fail to protect the land where food is grown, the consequences will only worsen.

📢 “Defending the Right to Land through the Right to Food: Biodiversity and Global Supply Chains” 🌱 Yesterday this event explored how the right to food can be a powerful tool to defend land rights, protect biodiversity, and hold global supply chains accountable.

📍HRC61 Side Event Food, Land & Agrarian Reform: ICARRD+20 & the Case for Redistribution 🗓6 March | 13:00–14:00 📌Room IX, Palais des Nations, Geneva 🌍 Rising land inequality is fueling hunger & injustice. 🌱 Redistributive agrarian reform is essential for food systems transformation & climate justice

The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty releases its position paper ahead of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development – ICARRD+20, calling for transformative agrarian reform grounded in food sovereignty. bit.ly/4rmb3Ed

We’re hiring: Communications Specialist Join FIAN International and help amplify the global struggle for the right to food and nutrition⚖️Work with partners in 60+ countries to strengthen visibility, shape narratives & support human rights worldwide Ready to make an impact? Apply now bit.ly/46XG358

📌This week, FIAN International & Christian Aid supported land defenders from Sierra Leone at the UPR pre-session in Geneva 💪They called on states to issue strong, concrete recommendations to the government of Sierra Leon to strengthen corporate accountability, fully implement the Customary Land Act

🌱PLAYLIST ✨ Seeds of Resistance in West Africa Check out our new playlist: bit.ly/4txyD2m

The German supermarket chain EDEKA misleads consumers by marketing palm oil products that are supposedly produced in a "sustainable" manner. This was the court ruling, which upheld a lawsuit brought by @foodwatchde.bsky.social, supported by ECCHR. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

🌍 On the occasion of the UPR Pre-session, we invite you to an exchange with human rights defenders working on environmental & climate justice and ⚖️ natural resource governance. 📍 Voices from Solomon Islands, Mozambique, Namibia & Sierra Leone will share. 🤝 Join the conversation.

⚠️ FIAN International and allied organisations are raising our voices before the Constitutional Court to stop the eviction of 31 peasant families in Durán. ✊ Justice must be on the side of those who feed us, not those who seek to expel them from their land.

UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding the escalating use of police custody and criminal proceedings against farmers and agricultural trade union leaders in France, following the arrest of 52 people during peaceful protests in Paris this month. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🌍Global Movements Unite: ICARRD+20 and the Fight for Land, Territory, and the Commons Social movements and Indigenous Peoples are rallying behind the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. 🔥 📅 February 24-28, 2026 📍 Cartagena, 🇨🇴 Hosted by Government of Colombia

FIAN International condemns the military actions of the USA against Venezuela in clear breach of the UN Charter (Art.2.4) & urges the states of the UN to adopt effective action to protect state`s sovereignty, the rule of law and the right to self-determination and human rights of Venezuelan People

FIAN Internacional se une a las casi 1000 organizaciones que han rechazando la violación del derecho internacional, en la Carta de Naciones Unidas (art.2.4) y el derecho interamericano por gobierno de los Estados Unidos mediante acciones militares en Venezuela.

📢 3rd Nyéléni forum: Building global solidarity for systemic transformation ⚠️ The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! 🌈 From 6 to 13 September 2025, the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka hosted the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum. www.fian.org/en/3rd-nyele...

🌾 Seeds Carry More Than DNA—They Carry Memory, Resistance, and Identity. Peasant and native seeds are more than what we plant in the soil. They are living archives of culture, knowledge, and belonging. When traditional seeds are lost, we lose entire worlds. 🌍💔

🚨The Struggle for Freedom: Seed laws designed for industrial agriculture are pushing peasant seed practices to the margins & criminalizing them Commercial standards demand❌Uniformity❌Stability❌Homogeneity But peasant & native seeds are✅Heterogeneous✅In constant evolution✅Adapted to local conditions

🌱 Living Seeds, Living Knowledge: How Peasant Communities Are Safeguarding Our Future Dynamic seed management by peasant communities isn't just farming—it's a pillar of the right to food, self-determination, and biodiversity conservation.

🌐 Digital Rights Meet Food Rights at WSIS+20. Join our virtual side-event: "Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Digital Age - Spotlight on the Right to Food" 📅 December 15 | 8:00-9:15 AM ET @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social @itforchange.bsky.social

📊 Data is Power: The Hidden Violence Against Women Street Vendors This year, the Supermarket Watch, by FIAN, Grain & StreetNet International, is shining a light on the women who feed our communities—but whose safety and dignity are under constant threat.

👀 Lima Just Changed the Game for Global Seed Control Something major just went down at the ITPGRFA session. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources collapsed into chaos. Consensus broke. And behind it all? A power play most people never saw coming.

🌱Seeds of Resistance: Historic Peasant Exchange Launches in West Africa 🌾A 2-week peasant-to-peasant exchange has just kicked off, bringing together movements from Colombia, Mali, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Sudan &Tunisia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cat5...

🌱🌀 WHERE SEEDS ARE BORN, RESISTANCE TAKES ROOT 🌾💚From Latin America —where some of the most diverse seeds are produced, preserved, & resisted — we reaffirm: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources #ITPGRFA must protect what has been collectively created & cared for across generations.

🌱 LIMA: THE BATTLE FOR SEEDS Who controls the future ? The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGRFA) is at a crossroads. 🌾 Peasant and Indigenous communities who have cared for them for generations VS 🏢 Corporations seeking to expand their control.

Marks the 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence, new edition of 'Supermarket watch' highlight the vulnerability that women street & market traders endure while making a living and contribute to local economy. grain.org/e/7333 @fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social