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Nyéléni, Mali : A Global Alliance Against Land Grabbing

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From 17-19 November 2011 women and men peasants, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and their allies from across the world gathered together in Mali to participate in the first international peasants' conference to stop land grabbing.

The meeting took place in Nyéléni Village, a centre for agro-ecology training near Sélingué and a symbolic place for the global struggle for food sovereignty: the first international forum on Food Sovereignty was held here 2007. Two-hundred-fifty participants from 30 countries around the world came together to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land grabbing and to build and strengthen their alliances.

Read a report from FIAN on the Nyeleni Meeting and the newly created Global Alliance against Land Grabbing (download pdf below)

Read the Nyeleni Declaration