10/02/2016  # Farmers  convinced Malabo Declaration domestication legal and policy framework way forward     ARUSHA   East Africa Community Member States should heed small scale farmers call to domesticate  Malabo Declaration by embedding it in state’s policies and laws.    This would make implementation of its noble goals more feasible,... Read More

23/11/2015 Women Small Scale farmer’s Conference Wins SADC approval.  #Event said to instigate new thinking for improving  regional agriculture policies  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Women Small Scale Farmers’ Conference, a regional event organised annually by  ESAFF is an important platform for awareness creation about women in agriculture and their needs.    ... Read More

21/11/2015  Johannesburg:  Need a game changer in the fight against poverty and hunger across Southern African Development Community?     Empowering SADC women is the answer.   Public and private stakeholders should lead the way by drawing and executing agri-investment policies and plans that address the need of small scale women... Read More

10/10/2015  Lusaka It is not every day we have a gender balanced leadership in the boardroom.  But for ESAFF Zambia, it is a dream come true.  The composition of the board elected to lead the organisation in the next three years is comprised half by women and the other half... Read More

15/09/2015  Addis Ababa: It’s high time African government walked their talks by firmly  committing to implementation of   CAADP and Malabo Declaration. A coalition of non state actors  has said failure by the  African governments to fully commit themselves to the implementation of CAADP and Malabo Declaration, would end up in... Read More

22/05/2015 The Tanzania parliamentary committee on Agriculture, Water and Livestock has expressed its great displeasure with the executive branch of the government for failing to fulfil budgetary commitments made in parliament for the benefit of agriculture, water and livestock sectors. The members of the committee told farmer leaders in Dodoma on... Read More

23/07/2015  Tanzanian Non State Actors (NSAs) have created a national platform to engage more effectively with the continental and national agriculture initiatives. The platform was realised at the end of the three day workshop in Dar es Salaam hosted by ESAFF and ANSAF with the support from the CAADP Non... Read More

07/08/2015 Eastern and Southern Africa Farmers Forum (ESAFF) has joined South African Development Community (SADC)   Regional   Agricultural    Policy   (RAP) Investment Plan Working Group to represent the interest of small farmers across the region. SADC secretariat wrote to ESAFF last June to join the group, and offer that was greatly appreciated,... Read More