FIAN International annual report looks back on 2024

FIAN’s latest annual report takes stock of some of the main struggles we are engaged in around the world for the right to food and nutrition.

During 2024, FIAN joined forces with grassroots groups and international alliances to oppose the ongoing weaponization of food, a key driver of global hunger, notably in Palestine. We also began new research on the failure of the international community to adequately respond to famines in conflict areas.

The sea is a major source of nutrition for many. Working with local partners, FIAN helped to expose the appropriation of aquaculture affecting fisher peoples and coastal communities in Tamil Nadu, India. We also supported UN advocacy led by the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, amplifying grassroots demands for recognition of fisher peoples and coastal communities, asserting their rights to land, water, and fisheries.

We marked the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Right to Food Guidelines in June with allies in the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRTFN) calling on governments to incorporate the right to food into national legislation, regulations, policies and programs.

We have been working for some time with the feminist school of the Latin American Alliance for Food Sovereignty and in 2024 we published a booklet showcasing their experiences which aims to be a tool to inspire others to action. The school builds bridges across generations and reveals the hidden contributions of women to local economies, highlighting their vital role in food production and care and motivating them to take more power in decision making.

At COP 29, we called for people-led solutions and a just transition to agroecology and sounded the alarm on the socioeconomic and environmental risks of digitalized and financialized carbon markets in debates around the topic in the UN.

We joined forces with allies to advocate for strong corporate accountability for human rights and environmental harm – and for an end to corporate capture of the UN. This included denouncing new attempts to derail negotiations on a binding treaty to regulate transnational corporations.

FIAN’s International Council, which comprises 19 national sections, met in Portugal at the end of the year and adopted a new Strategic Plan to guide our global work until 2030.

The great work of our national Sections continued to be a major source of inspiration.

For example, FIAN Uganda reported a marked decrease in military violence against fisher people following years of grassroots activism and campaigning. And we celebrated with FIAN Colombia the culmination of more than a decade of advocacy work which contributed to a groundbreaking constitutional amendment mandating the state to guarantee the human right to adequate food.

We look forward to many more positive examples like these in the year ahead, as we join forces with FIAN Sections and our allies around the world fighting for a global transition to agroecology, food sovereignty and everyone’s right to food and nutrition.

Download the annual report here.