30/09/2011 ESAFF is among 28 global and regional organisations that has endorsed the Charter to End Extreme Hunger. The Charter was launched with endorsements by Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos;and Musician Bob Geldof. You can watch the full... Read More

31/08/2011 We the small scale farmers (crop growers, livestock keepers and fisher folk) of the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region met recently in Morogoro, Tanzania,  including delegations from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho South Africa, Madagascar and Seychelles.   RECALLING African governments’ initiatives to invest... Read More

9-8-2011   It is an auspicious week for the Tanzania  farmers, who constitute 80 per cent of population. They got the opportunity to display the advances they have made in the sector so far to improve output. In this year’s shows MVIWATA emerged the winner and received the 1st prize... Read More

20-7-2011 Small scale farmers play a pivotal role in the African continent when we come to feeding the nations. It has emerged that, only South Africa, in Southern   African states really depends on large scale farmers for food, export earnings and other agri-based raw materials. The rest, it is the... Read More

15-7-2011 Four rice producing regions in Tanzania this year are expected to get a bumper harvest, thanks to a new partnership between farmers and a rural nongovernmental organization. Farmers under the banner of National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups (MVIWATA) have been empowered by Dodoma based Rural Livelihood Development Company... Read More

8-7-2011 The Seychelles animal feed factory will get technical help from Mauritian feed firm Meaders, following the signing of an agreement last week. The memorandum of understanding was signed by the Seychelles Farmers’ Marketing Cooperative chairman Serge Benstrong, who is also the Seychelles Farmers’ Association (Seyfa) chairperson and Meaders feed... Read More

17-6-2011 In Topora village, Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe, farmers have successfully started practicing agroecology, a fist in the country. The crops they produce are completely organic,  produced with local knowledge and traditional skills. This means they are not using chemical fertilizers or even imported production skills. This has become a... Read More

31-5-2011 In the small scale farmer societies, when we come to leadership, women mostly take the back seat despite being main actors in the production chain. Actually, women lag behind in leadership positions and roles at all levels  from the family, national to regional level. It is said they are... Read More