Project overview
From 6th to the 13th September 2025, ACHFN participated in the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The forum brought together more than 700 delegates from over 100 countries, including farmers, food producers, Indigenous peoples, workers, organisers, and social movements.
The gathering was the result of a multi-year consultation process. Delegates arrived with experiences from their own lands, communities, and movements, then worked together on shared political direction for food sovereignty, climate justice, gender justice, health, peoples’ rights, and social and solidarity economies.
For ACHFN, Nyéléni connected UK Black food justice work with a much wider international struggle. The conversations in Kandy reflected many of the same questions ACHFN works with at home: who controls land, whose food knowledge is valued, how communities protect culture, and what it takes to build food systems rooted in dignity rather than extraction.
The forum led to the Kandy Declaration, a shared roadmap for changing food systems. ACHFN’s participation connected its community-rooted work with that global process, while bringing African and Caribbean heritage, diaspora experience, and UK food justice concerns into the wider movement space.