Ghana’s women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa’s seeds
22/5/2015 Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa, writes Heidi Chow. Maybe that’s why governments,... Read More
Report warns on e-waste, GMOs, biofuels
23/04/2015 On GMOs, the report says development and application of modern biotechnology presents a potential technological intervention with associated concerns to human... Read More
Pesticide-producing GM corn contaminates small farmers’ crops in South Africa
24/04/2015 NaturalNews) As biotech experts have warned, genetically modified corn has cross-pollinated with non-GMO strains of maize used by small-time farmers in... Read More
Small Scale Farmers Score More on Seed Savings and Multiplication
13/03/2015 Small Scale Farmers Score More on Seed Savings and Multiplication Agriculture occupies a very important place in the lives of Tanzanians... Read More
Is there really a future for Africa’s smallholder farmers? Yes, but it’s not ros
27/01/2015 BY SAMANTHA SPOONER ALL smallholder farmers do is hold up development, it’s not sustainable”, said the development engineer, referring to Kofi Annan’s talking... Read More
5 December is World Soil Day!!!!
5/12/2014 The UN FAO has declared 2015 the International Year of Soil. Today 5th December 2014 is the World Soil Day. What... Read More
ESAFF Making Headlines
18/11/2014 Small scale farmers from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda with support from fellow farmers from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Madagascar, Seychelles,... Read More
Small scale farmers launch the “INVEST IN US” Budget Kilimo Campaign in the EAC Region
5/11/2014 Small scale farmers from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda with support from fellow farmers from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Madagascar, Seychelles,... Read More
Outcry over acquisition of Africa’s SeedCo by Monsanto
5/11/2014 The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has expressed deep concern on the recent acquisitions of large parts of SeedCo,... Read More
Right to food threatened
5/11/2014 Governments in industrial countries have been accused of regularly putting pressure on developing countries to introduce stringent plant variety protection (PVP)... Read More