Regional civil society organisations continue pushing for accountability across southern Africa Johannesburg, South Africa On 13th and 14th September, civil society organisations from across southern Africa will meet online and parallel gatherings across six different locations (Johannesburg, Dodoma, Harare, Lilongwe, Lusaka, and Maputo to assess the progress of the Southern... Read More

The Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) Region network has underscored the need to concrete framework to define farmers’ involvement in all research cycles towards understanding their community needs and recommendations. Hakim Baliraine, Chairperson of ESAFF region network, made the remarks during a recently organised zoom meeting... Read More

Through their umbrella Organisation: Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF), farmers say because they are not involved in research, most technologies haven’t been embraced because they don’t understand them. Smallholder farmers have called for involvement in the research processes so as to understand technologies developed for them... Read More

The draft East African Community (EAC) Seed and Plant Varieties Bill is being finalized at the EAC secretariat amid stiff opposition Arusha. Farmer groups in East Africa say they will not relent in their opposition to a proposed seed and plant varieties bill. The draft East African Community (EAC) Seed... Read More

CIVIL society organizations (CSOs) have called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum and its thematic committee in Tanzania to prioritise issues of health, agriculture and food security in their commitments for the region’s sustainable development. The stakeholders also urge the SADC parliamentarians to strongly push for the... Read More

The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has urged partner states to unite in defeating hunger in the region. According to Ms Francoise Uwumukiza, an EALA lawmaker who also chairs the independent, legislative arm of the Community’s Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources (ATNR) committee, it will take a unified regional economic... Read More

PARTNER States within the East African Community (EAC) have been challenged to allocate more funds on agriculture. This is in a bid to cushion the sector from the pangs of persistent drought caused by climate change. Speaking on the sidelines of the sixth EAC Budget Summit hosted by the Eastern... Read More