Name: Janailson Santos de Almeida
Organisation: Landless Rural Workers Movement
Title: Peasant and Bachelor in Agroecology
Brief Profile:
Janailson Almeida, peasant from Northeast Brazil. He is a militant of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (the MST). The MST is a 35 years old social movement in Brazil that struggle for access to land by poor peasants, Agrarian Reform, and social changes looking forward to Socialism. He also as the Bachelor in Agroecology from State University of Paraíba (his hometown) and master in Territorial Development to Latin America and Caribbean from the Geography Department of State University of Sao Paulo. He is internationalist militant in China to exchange with peasant organizations.