Book Launch: Agroecology – Our land is Our Life
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 [...]
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, [...]
Desktop Study on Soil Fertility and Pest Management
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 [...]
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 [...]
JOB VACANCY: Healthy Soil Healthy Food Project Officer
Deadline extended to 28 October. Do you want to be part of a solution that puts agroecology and food sovereignty at the heart of African food systems? Do you want to be part of a movement of [...]
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 [...]
Press Release: STOP FUNDING INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA
AFRICA’S LARGEST CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK CALLS ON WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS TO STOP FUNDING INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) does [...]
AFSA NEWS ADVISORY: Press Conference 2 September
AFRICA’S LARGEST CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK CALLS ON WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS TO STOP FUNDING INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA Contacts: afsa@afsafrica.org for general inquiries [...]
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 AFRICA AGROECOLOGY AWARDS 2021: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is launching the AFSA Africa Agroecology Awards 2021. This Award honours and recognizes great African individuals, groups, organizations, and [...]
PRESS KIT: OUR LAND IS OUR LIFE PRESS CONFERENCE 21 JUNE 2021
AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND FAITH LEADERS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION AT THE AFRICAN – EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE African civil society and faith leaders of the Our Land is Our Life [...]
PRESS CONFERENCE – Our Land is Our Life – Monday 21 JUNE 2021
African Civil Society and Faith leaders Call for Urgent Action at the African – European agriculture ministerial conference 8am Dakar, 9am Abuja/London, 10am Brussels/Johannesburg, 11am Nairobi [...]
African civil society refuses to engage with UNFSS without radical change
May 3, 2021 Dr. Agnes Kalibata Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Prerequisites for engaging with the UNFSS Dear Dr. Kalibata AFSA acknowledges [...]
Our Land is Our Life Workshop Report
“When spiders unite their webs, they tie a lion. Who are the spiders, and who are the lions? The spiders are the CSOs and FBOs represented by you and here with us. The lions are the AU and [...]
Call for proposals: Land Policy Research
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, on behalf of the Our Land is Our Life platform, invites consultants to submit proposals to carry out studies to provide a critical analysis of land [...]
