The Italian #G7 Presidency’s focus on #food and #climate is urgently needed. The Apulia Food Systems Initiative’s in Africa joined-up approach to food and climate is welcome. Indeed, exacerbates the existing fragility and inequalities in our global #foodsystem. Have a look at the open letter of family #farmersorganisations (link below... Read More

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been urged to ride on the success story of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), with its transformative impact on the agricultural sector, to draw invaluable lessons that can be applied in the pursuit of food security to spur progress and development... Read More

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... Read More

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

Eastern and Southern Africa SamllScale Farmers Forum along with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in collaboration with the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), under the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Uganda, convened a Regional Common Ground Dialogue for Mainstreaming... Read More

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... Read More