ESAFF landmark project to link farmers with meteorological services
22/5/2014 ESAFF has embarked on a project to ensure farmers access scientific updates about weather so as to improve their decision making... Read More
Hunger: Smallholder farmers want AU Heads of States summit to hear them out in June
22/5/2014 AU commitment to end hunger leaves smallholder farmers in cold ESAFF has hailed the historic new commitment by African Union to... Read More
SADC seeks to reenergize agriculture sector
22/5/2014 *Civil society demands food sovereignty The Eastern & Southern Africa Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) has noted that agriculture is the single most... Read More
Plant breeders’ rights: SADC calls for farmers’ rights too
22/5/2014 After a heavily contested protocol and a meeting of stakeholders, SADC has called for interested parties to initiate a process to... Read More
Agro-Ecology: the Rich Future of Small Scale farmers in Zimbabwe
22/5/2014 Mr. Ngoni Chikowe is a small holder farmer in Kawere village, Mutoko District in Zimbabwe. He has been practicing agro ecology... Read More
Zambian farmers commend ESAFF support
22/5/2014 Ecological trainings and capacity building done by ESAFF early last year among farmers in Zambia, has started bearing fruits. A cross... Read More
Tanzania: Indigenous rice varieties fast disappearing
22/5/2014 The government has been asked to come up with strategy geared towards maintaining indigenous rice varieties, which are on the verge... Read More
Africa to make hunger a history in a decades
02/05/2014 African countries have committed to end hunger by the year 2025. To attain the goal, countries will take concrete measures to... Read More
Press Release—la Vía Campesina: April 17: Resistance Grows in Defense of Peasant Seeds
16/04/2014 (Harare, April 16, 2014) This year millions of men and women farmers of the international peasant movement, La Vía Campesina, mobilize... Read More
AFSA Statement on ARIPO Joining UPOV 1991
03/04/2014 PRESS RELEASE FROM ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA AFSA STRONGLY CONDEMNSS LEIGHT OF HAND MOVES BY ARIPO TO JOIN... Read More