{"id":4786,"date":"2021-01-29T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2022-12-06T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T08:33:45","slug":"word-from-the-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/word-from-the-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Word from the Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ESAFF through its member organizations has recorded a number of success stories: In Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho; national small-scale farmers\u2019 fora are involved in campaigns to influence policies, land, trade, water and farmer-friendly credit schemes affecting farmers, also favourable land tenure policy and agriculture financing. This is done in collaboration with other like-minded players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Present and Future Plans<\/strong><br \/>\nESAFF is prioritizing the strengthening of the National Fora with a view to increase membership at grassroot, country and regional level and forge partnership with regional and global progressive small-scale farmers\u2019 movements, strategizing to influence national, regional, continental and global policies affecting small-scale farmers through campaigning, advocacy and lobbying. Mobilizing other national small scale farmers forum in the region to join ESAFF.<\/p>\n<p>Hakim Baliraine<\/p>\n<p>ESAFF Chairperson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESAFF through its member organizations has recorded a number of success stories: In Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho; national small-scale farmers\u2019 fora are involved in campaigns to influence policies, land, trade, water and farmer-friendly credit schemes affecting farmers, also favourable land tenure policy and agriculture financing. This is done in collaboration with other&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/word-from-the-chairman\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Word-from-the-chairman-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}