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On 12th September 2025, a group of participants of the Third Nyéléni Global Forum visited the Attapitiya Community Development Centre in Aranayaka, Mawanella. The visit highlighted how grassroots communities are reshaping their relationship with food, land, and biodiversity while strengthening economic independence. A key discussion focused on the Centre’s efforts to document traditional knowledge from […]

Field trips were conducted on 12/09/2025, among the programs implemented in conjunction with the Nyéléni Global Conference held at the National Cooperative Development Institute, Polgolla. One of the field trips was the Pallakotuwa Agroecological and Food Sovereignty Model led by the Lanka Organic Agricultural Movement. This is a community-based ecological model as well as a

The argument of the commercial empires promoting large-scale industrial plantations is that it is impractical and unprofitable to carry out market-oriented, environmentally friendly sustainable farming on a large scale. To provide practical experience to dispel this argument, a field trip was conducted on 12.09.2025 at Rambukkana Forest Garden Organic for the delegates participating in the

Yesterday, 12th September 2025, participants of the Third Nyéléni Global Forum had the privilege of visiting Dambana, the ancestral homeland of Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Vedda community. This field visit embodied the vision of food sovereignty—placing people, nature, and culture at the center of sustainable food systems. The event was particularly notable for Sri Lankan indigenous

Belipola Analog Forest, which was born as a result of a campaign against foreign pine and eucalyptus plantations thirty-five years ago with the aim of demonstrating local technology against foreign alien technology, has emerged as a successful forestry system that is restoring degraded lands in 23 countries around the world. 43 delegates who participated in

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From the river to the sea; world fishers, farmers, pastoralists, forest peoples, every other food producing and nature based community that gathered from more than hundred countries, here at Sri Lanka for the third #Nyeleni Global Forum erupted into one voice! Viva Viva Palestina! Free #FreePalestine! Filistin will be free!

The “Rubber improvement of value chain & Embedded smallholders resilience project (RIVER)” jointly implemented by the Lanka Organic Agricultural Movement and KSAPA, Michelin Lanka is currently being successfully implemented. Through it, training programs on rubber intercropping and home gardening are being conducted to popularize rubber cultivation in non-traditional rubber growing areas (Monaragala and Ampara districts).

This morning in Sri Lanka, torches lit up the faces and convictions of those who hold high the values of food sovereignty. A powerful moment, charged with emotion, where each flame embodied hope, resistance and the commitment of peoples to fair, local and sustainable food. 🌍🌾 At Nyéléni, we’re not just dreaming of a different

Over 700 delegates from over 100 countries representing all regions of the world have now arrived at the Polgolla National Institute of Cooperative Development in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The first day of the conference, which is scheduled to officially open on September 8, 2025, was held yesterday. First, regional meetings were held, with regional groups