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Sagana, Kenya – From February 11th to 14th, 2025, over 100 participants from 22 African countries came together in Sagana, Kenya, for the PAN African Agroecology Workshop 2025. The event was attended by representatives of smallholder food producers, civil society organizations, researchers, and policymakers to celebrate the power of agroecology to transform...

ESAFF Annual Report 2024

29 Jan 2025

ESAFF

We are pleased to present the ESAFF Annual Report 2024, highlighting our collective efforts, milestones, and impact in championing smallholder farmers’ rights and agroecology across Eastern and Southern Africa. This year’s report showcases our advocacy achievements, policy engagements, and grassroots initiatives that have strengthened farmers’ voices in decision-making spaces. Explore...

It would have been better if the AU had started the process from the ground up

12 Dec 2024

ESAFF

Embedded in the CAADP framework, and adopted in 2014, the Malabo Agenda was intended to contribute to implementing agriculture-led development on the continent that eliminates hunger, reduces poverty and food insecurity, and facilitates higher sustainable economic growth and development. In February 2024, the African Union presented the last report on...

Tanzania urged to incorporate agroecology-based food system

22 Oct 2024

ESAFF

THE Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) has urged the Ministry of Agriculture to incorporate agroecology-based food system transformations to ensure food sovereignty and resilience in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) strategy and action plan for 2026-2035. Joe Mzinga, ESAFF Regional Coordinator, made this...

Family Farmers’ Statement will reach COP28

01 Dec 2023

ESAFF

The World Rural Forum, through a participative and inclusive process, has articulated a Statement emphasizing the imperative need for global recognition of family farmers catalytic role. The climate crisis is severely affecting millions of family farmers around the world. Frequent and intense droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, storms, heat waves, rising...

Untapped Potential: An analysis of international public climate finance flows to sustainable agriculture and family farmers

20 Nov 2023

ESAFF

An analysis of international public finance for climate mitigation and adaptation conducted by Climate Focus for farmers networks representing over 35 million small-scale producers in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. Download the analysis here

COMMUNIQUÉ: Accelerating SADC’s Development through the Socially Accountable Generation and Use of Public Resources

19 Sep 2023

ESAFF

Whereas a regional dialogue for non-state actors (NSAs) on the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) for 2020-2030 was held on 13 to 14 September 2023, under the theme Accelerating SADC’s Development through the Socially Accountable Generation and Use of Public Resources, co-convened by Southern...

NON-STATE ACTORS WELCOME MOVE TO STRENGTHEN ENGAGEMENT WITH SADC

14 Sep 2023

ESAFF

(14 September 2023) — Non-State Actors in southern Africa have welcomed plans by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to develop a robust engagement mechanism aimed at enhancing coordination and harmonization of efforts to drive the regional integration agenda. Currently, engagement between Non-State Actors (NSAs) and the SADC Secretariat is...

African Call for Policy Support and Investment to Transform Food Systems through Agroecology

ESAFF Annual Report 2024

It would have been better if the AU had started the process from the ground up

Tanzania urged to incorporate agroecology-based food system

Family Farmers’ Statement will reach COP28

Untapped Potential: An analysis of international public climate finance flows to sustainable agriculture and family farmers

COMMUNIQUÉ: Accelerating SADC’s Development through the Socially Accountable Generation and Use of Public Resources

NON-STATE ACTORS WELCOME MOVE TO STRENGTHEN ENGAGEMENT WITH SADC

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