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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[Kampala, Uganda, November 3, 2021] AFSA is happy to announce the publication of a new book, “STORIES OF AGROECOLOGY AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: REPORTS OF GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS BY JOURNALISTS [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Date: June 18, 2021 Dr. Agnes Kalibata Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit We would like to express our gratitude for your letter dated May 26, 2021. The [...]
Farmers in Africa are the custodians of centuries-old knowledge about seed, agriculture, and ecology. Each seed is a legacy of power, heritage and divine rights. While farmers’ seed varieties are [...]
From 27 to 29 October 2020, AFSA held its third Biennial Food Systems Conference and Celebration. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, AFSA decided to hold this conference virtually. The [...]
[Kampala, Uganda, April 20, 2021] – The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pleased to officially launch a three-day social media campaign on Agroecology for a Just Food System and [...]
By the time the WHO (World Health Organization) declared on January 30, 2020, that COVID19 was an international public health emergency, no one imagined the magnitude of the damage this disease [...]
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, Tanzania’s government took the crucial leap of joining the global community of nations that rule out GMOs and choose a just, healthy and sustainable path to [...]
