We cannot continue to favour a few rich elites over the impoverished majority, which brings with it the unsustainable exploitation of natural heritage, the commodification of life, the privatization of public services, and the control of production and trade systems by a few powerful transnational corporations. FoEI believes that building peoples' sovereignty in its diverse dimensions provides valuable spaces to explore alternatives by challenging the business-as-usual scenario.

Promoting economic processes as alternatives to the neo-liberal model implies building and creating new democratic structures, systems and processes that strengthen local markets and cultures, consumers' and producers' cooperatives, solidarity economies and alternative financial mechanisms.