17/05/2016  Involve project: awakening farmers’ to their rights in words and deeds across East Africa *The battle to reduce food insecurity By ESAFF Correspondent Building the capacity of small scale farmers in agriculture policy dialogue and budget monitoring has multiplier effects in poverty reduction and needs to be enhanced across... Read More

06/06/2016  EALA Speaker signals Malabo Declaration domestication is way forward to create momentum in poverty eradication *EALA committed to working with ESAFF, civil society By ESAFF Correspondent East Africa Community Member States need to fully adopt and implement Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) and African Union Malabo Declaration on... Read More

06/06/2016  Hon Bazivamo: there is no excuse for any EAC State to dishonour Malabo Declaration *Legal commitments to increase agriculture funding should be made by domestication of Malabo Declaration By ESAFF Correspondent Progressive agriculture is what can propel majority of East African farmers to improved livelihood, better than any other... Read More

06/06/2016  Hon Bazivamo: there is no excuse for any EAC State to dishonour Malabo Declaration *Legal commitments to increase agriculture funding should be made by domestication of Malabo Declaration By ESAFF Correspondent Progressive agriculture is what can propel majority of East African farmers to improved livelihood, better than any other... Read More

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