Aid donors’ flagship investment deal causing hardship and displacement for Tanzanian farmers
17/06/2015 Millions of pounds of UK aid money have been invested in a project in Tanzania which is destroying the livelihoods of... Read More
African civil society slams Monsanto junk GM maize deal
19/06/2015 Non-governmental and farmer organisations from South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya and Uganda strongly condemn the go-ahead given by the South... Read More
Thousands worldwide march against Monsanto and GM crops
23/5/2015 From Paris to Ouagadougou, thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest against the American biotechnology giant Monsanto and... Read More
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