in: http://www.foodsovereignty.org/about-us/; 14/03/2016

The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty is the world’s largest Alliance of small-scale food producers, peasant family farmers, artisanal fisher folks, pastoralists, nomads, indigenous peoples and indigenous organizations, the landless, urban producers, alternative consumer movements, rural workers and grassroots organizations, whose aim is to advance the food sovereignty agenda at the global and regional level.

The IPC alliance is therefore the space that represents the interests of small-scale food producers, who provide 70% of the food consumed by the world’s population. Food and agricultural policies cannot be negotiated at a global or regional level without us.

The organizations participating in the IPC subscribe to the Food Sovereignty principles as outlined in the 2007 Nyeleni Declaration (paragraph), the 6 pillars of the Synthesis Report and the Declaration of the 2015 Nyeleni International Forum on Agroecology.

IPC participants are defined as small-scale food producers, peasant family farmers, artisanal fisher folks, pastoralists, nomads, indigenous peoples and indigenous organizations, the landless, urban producers, alternative consumer movements, rural workers and grassroots organizations. NGOs participate as active support for the above-mentioned social movements[1]. The organizations participating at the international level of the IPC are: La Via Campesina (LVC), World Forum of Fishers People (WFFP), World Forum of Fish Harvesters & Fish Workers (WFF), World Alliance Mobile Indigenous People (WAMIP), Mouvement International de la Jeunesse Agricole et Rurale Catholique (MIJARC), {The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations – (IUF)}, URGENCI, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), World March of Women (WMW) and International Federation of Rural Adult Catholic Movements (FIMARC). The organizations participating at the regional dimension to the IPC are: Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA), Plateforme des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale (Propac), Movimiento Agroecologico de LatinoAmerica y Caribe (MAELA), Enlaces Continental Mujeres Indigenas de las Americas, Coordinadora Andina Organizaciones Indigenas, COPROFAM, US Food Sovereignty Alliance, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

[1] The mentioned NGO’s are: Friends of Earth International, FIAN, ICSF, Crocevia