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The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) wants to hire a consultant to edit seed case studies. Topic: Intensifying the narrative of Farmer Managed Seed Systems (FMSS) in Africa. [...]

We are small-scale food producers, youth, women, academics, environmentalists and scientists, part of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, the continent’s largest civil society movement [...]

Addis Ababa, 22 September 2022 – Africa’s small-scale farmers risk being disregarded and shut out at international climate negotiations (COP27) in Egypt this November, warns Africa’s [...]

Our Africa, Our Agriculture: African farmers and faith leaders demand an end to the failed Green Revolution  MEDIA CONTACTS Anne Maina, Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya / [...]

Our Africa, Our Agriculture African farmers and faith leaders demand an end to the failed Green Revolution 4PM Kigali / 5PM Nairobi / 10AM Washington D.C. Thursday, Sept. 1st REGISTER HERE Ahead [...]

CIVIL SOCIETY DECLARATION ON AFRICAN CONTINENTAL SEED HARMONISATION WE, delegates from 23 African countries[1] consisting of farmers, academics, CSOs, NGOs, media, faith-based organisations, [...]

These three study reports help establish a roadmap for changing seed policies and laws toward instruments supporting farmer-based seed systems in Africa. Throughout the world, farmers play a [...]

This framework aims to ensure the recognition and protection of the right of farmers to define rules, based on their habits and customs, within their communities, networks, or other collectives, [...]

Register Online Here – It’s FREE On May 24-26, 2022, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa will host a trailblazing hybrid convening to build a shared vision for the growth of [...]

Documenting seed case studies to scale up the narrative of Farmer Managed Seed Systems in Africa Terms of Reference Introduction: These terms of reference invite agricultural actors and those [...]

We, more than 400 people, in our capacity as members and supporters of the West African Peasants Seed Committee (WACS), represented by farmers (men, women and youth), farmers’ [...]

The First African Agroecological Entrepreneurship & Territorial Markets Convening May 24-26, 2022 A Hybrid Event: In-person Kampala, Uganda and Online Virtually Join entrepreneurs, consumer [...]

Whatever is done for Africa without the African people is not for Africa. A joint declaration of Social Movements and Peasant farmers, Faith-Based Organisations and CSOs was delivered at the [...]

AFSA & SKI are delighted to announce the publication of a new book on agroecological practices: Healthy Soil for Healthy Communities – An Introduction to Soil Health Practices for Africa. [...]

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) are pleased to invite you to the Africa-Europe Week taking place on [...]

AFSA celebrated the launch of a new book: “Agroecology – Our land is our life” at AFSA members’ gathering in Nairobi in December 2021. The book brings together ten case [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

Deadline for proposals 15 November 2021 To facilitate access to the use of agroecological inputs (natural treatment products against crop pests, and organic fertilisers), the programme [...]

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 [...]