.: People's Caravan for Food sovereignty starts

National Fisheries Solidarity movement together with MONLAR today started the week long caravan which will cover anout 10 districts in the Island With the theme of "let's protect natural resources, heal the earth and let's build a country without having burden of borrowings and hunger"

On 12th Oct. two teams of NAFSO activists carrying out programs in Eastern province.

One group will meet fishers in Trincomalee district where destrctive fishing practices destroying the fisheries resources and other group meets fishers in Oluvil where their livelihood threatens with large scale fisheries harbor that causing massive coastal erosions and have lost landing points, fisher huts and houses belongs to small scale fishers.

Hoping to strengthen of people to fight for their rights and help to get secured food sovereignty.

In Oluvil

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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People's Caravan for Food sovereignty starts