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

7/8/2009 Press Statement on the Promised US Government funding on Agriculture in Africa-held on 6th August, 2009 at Hotel 680, Nairobi Kenya In the wake of the beginning of the seven African nation’s tour by the American Secretary of State Mrs. Hilary R. Clinton, the US President Barrack Obama said... Read More

4/7/2009 poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from United Nations officials and agriculture experts say. New reports from the UN and analysts in India, Washington and London... Read More