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The spread of Covid-19 throughout Southern Africa is worsening the region’s already dire rates of food insecurity and malnutrition, pushing millions more people into poverty and hunger. Regional experts on food insecurity from the World Food Programme (WFP), ActionAid and the Eastern and the Southern Africa Small-Scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF),...

ESAFF Mourns the pass on of its Zambia Chairperson

18 Aug 2020

ESAFF

ESAFF is mourning the Chairperson of ESAFF Zambia Mr Kennedy Samujimu Chipoya who passed away on the 10th August 2020 after a short illness. The late Chipoya was born on 18th June 1969 in the touristic town of Livingstone, in Southern Province of Zambia. He had his early education in...

40th SADC Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held virtually

14 Aug 2020

ESAFF

The 40th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and preceding meetings will be held virtually from the 10th to the 17th of August, 2020. In view of the challenges posed by the COVID 19 Pandemic, the Summit and preceding meetings...

Hydropower boosts country opportunity on SADC

13 Aug 2020

ESAFF

With the construction of the Julius Nyerere hydropower project, Tanzania stands a better chance of implementing Southern African Development Community (SADC) agenda on trade and industrialization, experts have observed. The experts aired their views as the SADC precedings meetings of the ordinary summit are ongoing in the city at which...

EAC 2020/21 budget estimates adopted with focus on bolstering trade, infrastructure

10 Aug 2020

ESAFF

During the 41st Extra-ordinary virtual meeting, the East African Community Council of Ministers finally adopted the Community’s 2020/2021 budget estimates. The US$97.6 million budget will cater to three EAC Organs and Institutions’ recurrent and development expenditure for the current financial year which runs from July 1, 2020, to June 30,...

Agriculture remains underfunded in East Africa

03 Aug 2020

ESAFF

During the East African Community Agriculture Budget Summit last week, small scale farmers in member states expressed concerns over the agriculture sector that has remained under funded calling on the member states to meet the Malabo declaration. “I acknowledge so many challenges that our small scale farmers in the region...

EAC Not On Track On Malabo Agreement

20 Jul 2020

ESAFF

. EAC average is 5.27 points “which means the region is not on track,” the report said, attributing the scenario to poor investment in agriculture. Agriculture is a key sector in EAC economies, accounting for 25 to 44 percent of the partner states’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP and 80 percent...

Covid-19: MPs want investment in battered agriculture sector

14 Jul 2020

ESAFF

WINDHOEK – Members of Parliament who represent their countries on the SADC PF Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources are cracking their heads over how to help revive the agriculture sector to ensure regional food security. This, as evidence mounts that the on-going global Covid-19 pandemic has flung...

FCA Briefing with WFP/ActionAid and ESAFF

ESAFF Mourns the pass on of its Zambia Chairperson

40th SADC Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government to be held virtually

Hydropower boosts country opportunity on SADC

EAC 2020/21 budget estimates adopted with focus on bolstering trade, infrastructure

Agriculture remains underfunded in East Africa

EAC Not On Track On Malabo Agreement

Covid-19: MPs want investment in battered agriculture sector

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