We will strongly oppose and fight against such policies and practices promoted as “a new green revolution for Africaâ€.. Instead of solving the main problems for Africa, the Green Revolution will exacerbate current problems and create new problems in the long run. Their policy is environmental unsustainable, and will create more hunger and poverty.
Fighting talk from the 150 people who gathered for a series of conferences at the Nyéléni centre in Selengue, Mali, between 26 November and 2 December. Read the rest of the outcome statement here, and the conference documents here.
Will it make a hill of beans’ worth of difference? Depends, but one cannot help agreeing with the conference participants’ own conclusion:
We agreed that the real test of the significance of our week at the Nyéléni centre will be what we are doing in practice in the next weeks, months and years.
Indeed. And on the support they receive, no doubt.