Appel des organisations de la société civile à leurs gouvernements concernant la Nouvelle Alliance pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et la Nutrition en Afrique

Civil society organizations gathered at the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2015 to oppose the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa. They argue the initiative promotes corporate-led agriculture, facilitates land grabbing, and undermines the rights of small-scale farmers. The statement calls for a shift toward food sovereignty, agro-ecology, and the protection of peasant seed systems, demanding that governments suspend New Alliance commitments and prioritize human rights-based agricultural systems.

• The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched by the G8 in 2012 and implemented in ten African countries, is based on the flawed premise that corporate investment automatically improves food security and reduces poverty.
• The initiative focuses on production for export or non-food use and crops with low nutritional value, ignoring the need for diverse diets to achieve food security.
• Implementation of the New Alliance has been characterized by a lack of transparency and has encouraged land grabbing and the usurpation of natural resources, harming small-scale farmers.
• The New Alliance encourages African governments to relax export controls, provide tax incentives for agribusiness, and modify seed laws to benefit multinational corporations, which may lead to the criminalization of seed exchanges between farmers.
• The document argues that the G8 and G7 lack the formal mandate to prescribe policy changes in other countries, asserting that the legitimate framework for such directives is the UN Committee on World Food Security.
• The signatories propose alternatives focused on public infrastructure, decentralized and sustainable production systems, and the protection of the right to produce, exchange, and sell peasant seeds.

APA

admin (2015). Appel des organisations de la société civile à leurs gouvernements concernant la Nouvelle Alliance pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et la Nutrition en Afrique. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/fr/appel-des-organisations-de-la-societe-civile-a-leurs-gouvernements-concernant-la-nouvelle-alliance-pour-la-securite-alimentaire-et-la-nutrition-en-afrique/

Chicago

admin. Appel des organisations de la société civile à leurs gouvernements concernant la Nouvelle Alliance pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et la Nutrition en Afrique. Friends of the Earth International, 2015. https://www.foei.org/fr/appel-des-organisations-de-la-societe-civile-a-leurs-gouvernements-concernant-la-nouvelle-alliance-pour-la-securite-alimentaire-et-la-nutrition-en-afrique/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{admin2015appel, author = {admin}, title = {{Appel des organisations de la société civile à leurs gouvernements concernant la Nouvelle Alliance pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et la Nutrition en Afrique}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2015}, month = jun, url = {https://www.foei.org/fr/appel-des-organisations-de-la-societe-civile-a-leurs-gouvernements-concernant-la-nouvelle-alliance-pour-la-securite-alimentaire-et-la-nutrition-en-afrique/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }