23/07/2015  Tanzanian Non State Actors (NSAs) have created a national platform to engage more effectively with the continental and national agriculture initiatives. The platform was realised at the end of the three day workshop in Dar es Salaam hosted by ESAFF and ANSAF with the support from the CAADP Non... Read More

07/08/2015 Eastern and Southern Africa Farmers Forum (ESAFF) has joined South African Development Community (SADC)   Regional   Agricultural    Policy   (RAP) Investment Plan Working Group to represent the interest of small farmers across the region. SADC secretariat wrote to ESAFF last June to join the group, and offer that was greatly appreciated,... Read More

23/06/2015  ESAFF small scale farmers have set the tone to strengthen their work on advocating for increased agricultural budgeting meant to benefit small scale farmers in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region. This resulted in the ESAFF members  Launching the Vision 2015-25 Budget Mulimi Campaign with the objective of... Read More

23/08/2015 Small scale farmers have launched a new advocacy initiative to engage stakeholders in East and Southern Africa (ESA) region for increased agricultural budgeting that meets Malabo Declaration commitments. The initiative by ESAFF members has led to the launch of Vision 2025 Budget Mulimi Campaign.  Its main  objective is strengthening... Read More

22/05/2015 The Tanzanian parliamentary committee on agriculture, water and livestock has agreed that the budget allocation and actual disbursements from the treasury to the sector is still not encouraging. It says it might take time to realise the Maputo/Malabo commitments to allocate 10% to the agriculture sector. The chairman of... Read More

24/06//2015 A South African farmer leader has been elected as the new vice chair of Eastern and Southern Africa Farmers Forum (ESAFF).Ms. Flora Maswanganyi,   ESAFF South Africa chairperson since 2014, was elected to the helm by ESAFF Annual General Meeting, held in Tanzania last June, which was attended by  14... Read More

22/05/2015 The outgoing Tanzanian parliamentary committee on agriculture, water and livestock has lamented that the budget allocation and actual disbursements from the treasury to the sector is wanting, and does not meet the commitments of Malabo Declaration. The chairman of the committee Professor Peter Mahamud Msolla told the civil society... Read More

09/08/2015  African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, on July 06, 2015 agreed an oppressive ‘plant variety protection protocol’ that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have... Read More