Hundreds of delegates from social movements and grassroots organizations representing peasants, Indigenous Peoples, artisanal fishers, pastoralists, and rural workers united within the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) will gather in Cartagena for the Forum of Peoples and Social Movements: United for Land, Water, Territories and Dignity, taking place on February 22–23, 2026.

This autonomous Forum will serve as a crucial political space for global social movements to strengthen alliances and consolidate concrete proposals ahead of the official II International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20), scheduled for February 24–28. Following the Forum, movements organized within the IPC will actively participate in plenary sessions and official panels of the conference.

The World March of Women (WMW) will join the mobilization with delegates from Africa, Asia- Oceania, the Americas, Europe, and MENA.

For WMW, agrarian reform cannot be separated from the struggle against patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, and racism. Rural and Indigenous women, as well as gender-diverse people, are at the forefront of food production and territorial defense, yet they continue to face systemic discrimination in access to land, water, credit, and decision-making spaces.

We once again will denounce that land is not a commodity; it is life, identity, culture, and the material basis for autonomy. Without women’s full and equal rights to territories and natural resources, there can be no real agrarian reform and no food sovereignty.

Twenty years after the first ICARRD, ICARRD+20 represents an important political moment to evaluate commitments and push governments toward transformative action. Social movements will arrive in Cartagena with concrete proposals built collectively through years of struggle.

WMW will stand in solidarity with peasant, Indigenous, fisher, and pastoralist movements to ensure that gender justice remains central in all outcomes. Feminist movements will continue to demand binding commitments that address land concentration, corporate control of food systems, environmental destruction, and violence against rural women and communities.

Defending Life, Building Food Sovereignty!

People’s Control over Land, Water and Territories,NOW!