by National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) Attends 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Kandy 7th September 2025: The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) is actively participating in the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, being held at the National Institute for Cooperative Development in Kandy, Sri Lanka, from 5th to 14th September 2025. The Forum brings together small-scale food producers, peasant organisations, Indigenous Peoples, feminists, environmentalists, workers, migrants, and consumers from across the globe to build joint proposals and strategies to address today’s interconnected global crises.
Delegates from 102 countries, representing Africa, the Near East and North Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, are attending the assembly. The Forum continues the legacy of the first Nyéléni Global Forum held in Mali in 2007, which reaffirmed the right to food sovereignty and created an international process for its recognition and implementation.
Speaking on the occasion, Olencio Simoes, General Secretary of NFF, stated that the Forum is “bringing together a powerful constellation of movements and communities — Indigenous Peoples, peasant farmers, fishers, pastoralists, agricultural workers, artisans, feminists, migrants, wage workers, the urban poor, solidarity economy activists, consumers, health workers, artists, and researchers — all united by a shared vision to build people’s economies and democracy, promote peace and international solidarity, advance food sovereignty and agroecology, defend land and territories, ensure health for all, and achieve climate justice and energy sovereignty.”
Simoes further emphasized that the NFF will raise critical issues concerning Indian fishers, including the challenges of the blue economy (or blue transformation), which is seen as a form of ocean grabbing, the unchecked promotion of industrial aquaculture, climate change, and transboundary concerns such as the arrest of Indian fishers in Pakistan and Sri Lankan jails. These issues will be placed before the international community to build solidarity and seek collective solutions.
The NFF delegation is being led by General Secretary Olencio Simoes and Chairperson Ramkrishna Tandel.
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