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

26/6/2009 The government is preparing a Bill for enacting a new law for the development of contractual farming, the National Assembly was told yesterday. Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives minister Stephen Wassira revealed this in Parliament here when responding to a supplementary question by Said Arfi (Mpanda Central, Chadema). The... Read More

1/7/2009 In a move that can be translated as exemplary in enhancing ownership of a farmers organisation, a small scale farmer from Kilifi District in Kenya has donated office stationeries to ESAFF. The equipment that were donated included a wall fan, flat files, staplers, punching machines, small national flags, calculators... Read More

Achievements of ESAFF The Forum through its member organizations has recorded a number of success stories: In Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho; national small-scale farmers’ fora are involved in campaigns to influence bio safety frameworks, land, trade, water and farmer friendly credit scheme policies affecting farmers. This is done in collaboration... Read More

All farmers wake up!   A diary of Moses Shaha who travelled from the Coastal town of Mombasa, Kenya to the Mountains of Central Africa, Burundi   Moses Shaha is ESAFF Secretary General, he is a farmer from Kilifi, Kenya he has travelled a thousands of miles for the course... Read More

Mai Elizabeth Mpofu the chair lady of ESAFF recently visited the Southern Africa Development Community – SADC in Gaborone, Botswana. In her tour of duty to familiarize with the regional grouping, the ESAFF chairlady also visited farmer groups in Lesotho and South Africa. In the Botswana capital, Mai Mpofu met... Read More

27/5/2009 Mai Elizabeth Mpofu the chair lady of ESAFF recently visited the Southern Africa Development Community – SADC in Gaborone, Botswana. In her tour of duty to familiarize with the regional grouping, the ESAFF chairlady also visited farmer groups in Lesotho and South Africa. In the Botswana capital, Mai Mpofu... Read More