Kandy Declaration

The Kandy Declaration, issued during the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka, calls for a systemic transformation of global societies to dismantle capitalist and imperialist structures. It advocates for food sovereignty, agroecology, and a feminist just energy transition while opposing corporate monopolies over land, seeds, and water. The document commits to transforming the United Nations multilateral system, cancelling external sovereign debt, and holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations through a legally binding treaty.

• The document identifies a systemic crisis driven by capitalism and imperialism, which commodifies ecosystems and biodiversity while promoting extractivism through institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO.
• The authors argue that the agro-industrial model harms the right to food and health through the use of monocultures, agrotoxins, chemical fertilizers, and genetically modified organisms.
• The declaration calls for a feminist just energy transition that treats energy as a common good and prioritizes community-led renewables and peoples' control over energy resources.
• There is a demand for the transformation of the United Nations multilateral system to prioritize the needs of workers, peasants, and Indigenous Peoples over the interests of transnational corporations and powerful governments.
• The document advocates for the establishment of a legally binding treaty to hold transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations and to end the current 'architecture of impunity'.
• The declaration emphasizes the need to transform the global debt architecture and cancel external sovereign debt, which it claims undermines access to essential public services like healthcare and education.
• The signatories commit to defending seed sovereignty and traditional knowledge against digital biopiracy and the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2025). Kandy Declaration. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EN_KANDY-DECLARATION.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. Kandy Declaration. 2025. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EN_KANDY-DECLARATION.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Friends of the Earth International |title=Kandy Declaration |date=September 2025 |url=https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EN_KANDY-DECLARATION.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{friendsoftheearthinternational2025kandy, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{Kandy Declaration}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2025}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/EN_KANDY-DECLARATION.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }