Agroecology improves women’s livelihoods
aquaculture provides an answer for women
Women Seed Savers Uganda – a three minute film
As governments across Africa develop laws to deny farmers’ rights to exchange and sell local seeds, women are leading the fight to protect Africa’s sacred biodiversity. View the 3 [...]
Improving women farmers’ access to seed in Uganda
Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda
Women making cheese in Kordofan Sudan
RURAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS IN CASAMANCE
WOMEN’S ASSOC FOR COMPOST IN BURKINA FASO
Climate Change And Agroecology working group meets in Nairobi
Climate Change And Agroecology working group meets in Nairobi The members of the Climate Change and Agroecology working group of AFSA met on 6th December 2021 in Nairobi, during the AFSA [...]
Statement of African Civil Society Networks on the Need for an Africa Food Policy
We, the Members of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa – a network of 36 civil society actors, representing smallholder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples, [...]
THE FOOD WE WANT: AFSA Endorses the Global Call to Action Against UPOV
On 8 December 2021, the Alliance for the Food Sovereignty in Africa met in Nairobi, Kenya. As representatives from 55 African countries, and over 30 million smallholder farmers, pastoralists, [...]
COP 26: Key Climate Action Demands to African Governments
In the wake of the climate emergency, countries on the African continent face severe effects even when it is common knowledge that they are the least contributors to global carbon emissions. The [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Our Land is Our Life Declaration
African civil society and faith leaders of the Our Land is Our Life Platform call on African and European Foreign Ministers to ensure African people’s real needs and concerns are addressed in [...]
STORIES OF SEED ACTIVISM: JOURNALISTS FROM 14 COUNTRIES REPORTING PEOPLES SOLUTION TO CORPORATE CONTROL OF AFRICA’S LIFE
AFSA is delighted to announce the publication of a new book, “STORIES OF SEED ACTIVISM: JOURNALISTS FROM 14 COUNTRIES REPORTING PEOPLES SOLUTION TO CORPORATE CONTROL OF AFRICA’S [...]
Press Release: 200 organisations urge donors to scrap AGRA
Nairobi, 7 September 2021 Today the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), representing some 200 million small-scale food producers, alongside 160 international organizations from 40 [...]
AFSA LAUNCHES A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO SHOWCASE AGROECOLOGY WORKS
[Kampala, Uganda, September 6, 2021] The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is pleased to declare September as Agroecology Activism Month and commence a one-month social media campaign [...]
AFSA’s first letter to big donors to stop funding the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
In June 2021 AFSA wrote to major institutional donors including the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the governments of USA, UK, Norway, Germany, Canada – [...]
AFSA Annual report 2020
THE ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA LAUNCHES THE AFSA AFRICA AGROECOLOGY AWARDS
PRESS RELEASE [Kampala, Uganda, August 16, 2021] The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa announced the inaugural AFSA Africa Agroecology Awards, launching a call on 9 August 2021 for [...]
