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

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