ESAFF Board set to expand to cover Indian Ocean and all Southern Africa Countries 11/10/2009 The Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum – ESAFF has decided to give the geographical expansion of ESAFF a priority in the year 2010. Following that decision, ESAFF will extend invitations to countries... Read More

09/10/2009 Small scale farmer leaders in eastern and southern Africa says they will take organisational development (OD) as an essential item to address at the national farmers forum development. The farmers said that during the workshop on OD that was organized recently in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. The facilitator of... Read More

18/09/2009 By Business Reporter, Times of Zambia http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=12&id=1161762345 THE East and Southern African Small-Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) Zambia has  said  Government should start involving small-scale farmers in monitoring resources allocated to the agricultural sector. ESAFF Zambia communications secretary, Simon Mwamba said in Lusaka yesterday that the Government must also make available some... Read More

10/09/2009 Malawi’s NASFAM wins 100,000 USD Norwegian prize By NYASA TIMES: 21 July 2009 Norway’s Yara Foundation says a Malawian farmers’ group and  a Kenyan banker have won its annual prize promoting former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s call for a green revolution in Africa. The foundation says the National Smallholder Farmers’... Read More

17/09/2009 Farmers in Zambia called for a people driven budget process Small scale farmers in Zambia have called the Government to embark on a people driven budget process next year (2010) and ensure timely release of funds for effective programme implementation. ESAFF-Zambia continues to monitor the implementation of the national... Read More

09/2009 Small scale farmers in Tanzania have called for their greater involvement when the Government is preparing policies regarding agriculture. The call was made during the Annual General Meeting of a network of small scale farmers’ group in Tanzania – MVIWATA. As one of the five resolutions, smallholder farmers in... Read More

2/10/2009 Is this another empty promise to small scale farmers?    African Heads of State and Government of the African Union have recommitted their countries to the Maputo Declaration of allocating at least ten (10) percent of their annual national budgets to the agriculture sector by 2015. This is to... Read More

August 2009  IFAP Statement: G-8 Billions Investment must be focused on smallholder farmers Paris: If agricultural investment strategies are to prove effective in the long-term, all investments must be made in developing country farmers’ organisations directly and not be funnelled through international agencies or national governments. The press report by... Read More