01-04-2011 The United Nations has acknowledged Eastern & Southern Africa Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF)  as one of the grassroots organizations working to make agroecological practices a reality in East and Southern African region. A  UN Report published March 2011 says ecological agriculture could double production in ten years while mitigating climate... Read More

09-03-2011 Nearly all poultry and pig farmers are back in operation, and the first batch of broilers to be fattened in several months were due for slaughter this week. Seychelles Farmers’ Association (SeyFA) chairman Serge Benstrong said advertising locally produced chicken on SBC TV has yielded good results. “More consumers... Read More

30/1/2011 Following growing concern of small scale farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region on the looming danger to come as the effects of the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) between the governments of ESA region and the European Union (EU), farmer leaders from 11 countries who... Read More

03/03/2011 ESAFF Signs the Dakar Appeal against the land grab. The Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) has strongly endorsed the Dakar Apral against land grab. The appeal came out as one of the major issues that arose out of the convergance in Dakar during the World... Read More

12/02/2011 Small scale farmers should push for the governments in Africa to allocate more money into the agriculture sector. They said that it has been long time after the Maputo Declaration in 2003 where States pledged to allocate more budgetary money to agriculture. Speaking before the demonstration at the world... Read More

25/01/2011 The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), is ready to partner with small scale farmers to speed up agriculture policies implementation in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources directorate (FANR) will assists in availing necessary information regarding SADC member states signed protocols... Read More

07/12/2010 In the process to ensure learning and smooth implementation of ESAFF’s activities, the high level delegation from ESAFF HQ will commence a visit to member countries to share development in the implementation of various agenda. The monitoring visit will take place in December 2010. The delegation will be led by the chairperson... Read More

23/11/2010 ESAFF would like to announce to all stakeholders that we have changed our telefax number effectively from today. our older number +255 23 2600006 will remain as a telephone number  and our new telefax is +255 23 2613880. We higly reagreat for any inconveniences caused. issued by ESAFF Coordinator, Joe Mzinga +255 782486183