Farewell 2020 – Year of Unprecedented Crisis and Wisdom
Greetings! We at the AFSA Secretariat started the year 2020 with modest optimism. It was the beginning of a new decade, with renewed hope and commitment to advance an African voice on agroecology [...]
A Briefing on AGRA’s False Promises
This AFSA web briefing by authors of the report reveals the findings of the international study. False Promises documents the dramatic negative impacts of the AGRA Alliance on small-scale food [...]
Webinar Recording of COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call for Food System Change in Africa
See the edited highlights of the webinar or listen to the audio recording. The coronavirus crisis has clearly exposed the weakness of current food systems and the fragility of Africa’s dependence [...]
False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
New study by a broad civil society alliance concludes: the agricultural alliance has failed to achieve its own goals. https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/42635 An international study [...]
AFSA WEBINAR: COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call for Food System Change in Africa
You are invited to a conversation with the African Union and Food Sovereignty Activists from all sub-regions of Africa. AFSA Chairperson Dr Chris Macoloo will be asking the tough questions to [...]
AFSA Annual Report 2019
Welome to AFSA’s Annual Report 2019 A lot happened in 2019 but here are five takeaways. Climate Change Campaign: The campaign was launched in Ghana at the African Climate Week in March [...]
“I can’t breathe,” says Africa
Ever since I saw the video of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the 25th May, killed by a police man who knelt on his neck for NINE MINUTES, while he was calling for his [...]
Ethiopian Civil Society Statement
On the unnecessary and illegal rush to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the country’s agricultural system without proper institutional and regulatory mechanisms set up and a [...]
Will territorial development work for rural Ethiopia?
By Million Belay In 2010, MELCA Ethiopia started working with a rural community called Telecho. It is about 12 km from another small town called Holeta and about 40 km from the capital, Addis [...]
Agroecology: the real deal for climate crisis in Africa
12 African organizations are taking action together online, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, to call for action on climate change and promote agroecology Online Campaign on #Agroecology4Climate [...]
AFSA Strategic Plan 2020-2024
Repositioning AFSA To meet the new opportunities and address the ever-changing challenges AFSA is continuing to press strongly for change in its four thematic areas, ensuring continuity and [...]
AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT on the report of the EU Task Force Rural Africa
This African civil society statement is in response to the Open Consultation on the Recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa, in their report “An Africa-Europe Agenda for Rural [...]
DO YOU HAVE AN AFRICAN LAND AND SOIL CASE STUDY?
You are warmly invited to share your land and soil stories. You may even get them published! Land is a community resource: we are custodians of the land and must pass it on to future generations [...]
COVID-19: A time for solidarity and resilience
We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in our many and diverse constituencies across Africa. We send a message of hope that each one of you and your family is coping with the impact [...]