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Food safety scandals are plaguing Africa. From contaminated meat to GMOs and toxic milk for babies, the dangers to people’s health from industrial food production are real. Here we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]

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 [...]

With the support of SWEDBIO, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and other African agroecological movement practitioners are implementing a project aimed at assisting in the [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

For over two decades, and in defence of life and democracy, diverse constituencies in Africa have promoted the rights of small farmers and their seed systems, and have expressed and continue to [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked the most havoc in Africa. The poor and vulnerable were the worst hit by the pandemic due to their incapacity to cope with the economic consequences that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In July 2020, an alliance of five African and five German organizations published the study “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)”. It is the first [...]

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and the African Union (AU), in collaboration with the Eastern Africa Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Africa [...]