06/06/2016 Agriculture is a vehicle for EAC economic transformation, Kenyan farmer leader declares  By Esaff Correspondent  Its high time East African Community states started addressing agriculture as a multidimensional vehicle for economic transformation with view to empowering small holder farmers. According to a Kenyan farmer leader Mr.  Alfayo Kuruna for... Read More

06/06/2016 By ESAFF Correspondent A cross-section of Parliamentary Chairpersons of the Agriculture Committees in East African Member States have declared that they want to see East African Governments allocating 10 percent of their total budgets to agriculture sector as per Malabo Declaration. Also other commitments in the vital document they... Read More

5/6/2016 Call to complete harmonization of  EAC CAADP compact with partner states plans By ESAFF Correspondent Completion of drafting and approval of the EAC CAADP compact and results framework to harmonize with East African member countries’ Agriculture Investment Strategic and Plans should be prioritized. This was noted at  EAC Agriculture... Read More

17/05/2016 Poverty free and food secure SADC: Workshop takes stock of failures and redress needed *ESAFF beats drum  for regional agreements domestication agenda By ESAFF Correspondent Southern African Development Community Secretariat has expressed gratitude to farmer organisations in the SADC region for participating at a Ministerial Workshop on food security... Read More

15/05/2016 *Seeks to holistically trigger increment of smallholder farmers’ capacities ESAFF held annual general meeting (AGM) mid May 2016, with one of the highlights being overwhelming approval of a ten year strategic plan, that will take the small farmers’ body to new heights. According to ESAFF Secretary General Ms Phakoe... Read More

23/03/2016  Elizabeth Mpofuof Zimbabwe is General Coordinator of the international peasant movement La ViaCampesina, a coalition of 164 organizations in 73 countries around the world, representing about 200 million peasant, landless, indigenous, and other farmers. She is also Chairperson of Zimbabwe Organic Smallholder Farmers Forum, and herself a farmer. and... Read More

10/02/2016  Arusha, TANZANIA  Focused and inclusive implementation of EAC CAADP Compact is the way forward to transform agriculture sector to ensure food security and human security in the region. Mr. Timothy Wesonga, a senior official at EAC Secretariat, Directorate of Agriculture made the comments while addressing  EAC Small Scale Farmers’... Read More

17/12/2015 SADC “complete” CAAD COMPACT in May 2016  PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is expected to sign its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP COMPACT) in May 2016. The Compact will be signed as the Community Secretariat has gone through all processes to develop the Regional Agriculture... Read More