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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity (ZAAB) and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) hosted a meeting from 26thto 28th November in Lusaka, [...]

AFSA will hold its 3rd African Food Systems conference in southern Africa and has elected to hold it in Zimbabwe so that it can coincide with the 8th annual Zimbabwe Traditional and Organic Food [...]

Distinguished colleagues, members of AFSA, ladies and gentlemen: Allow me to take this opportunity to thank you most sincerely for showing your confidence in me by entrusting me with the onerous [...]

As governments across Africa develop laws to deny farmers’ rights to exchange and sell local seeds, women are leading the fight to protect Africa’s sacred biodiversity. View the 3 [...]

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) joined other civil society organisations to emphasise the importance of the Community Land Use and Management Systems (CLUMS) at the just ended [...]

Timothy A. Wise, Tufts University and Small Planet Institute November 2017 More than a decade after a renewed push for an African Green Revolution began in earnest, and after a decade of program [...]

AFSA is seeking a competent and experienced individual or firm to undertake an end of project evaluation of the “Strengthening continental networking and advocacy for food sovereignty and [...]

from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa 31 August, 2019. Your Excellency, On behalf of the millions of African smallholder farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists, hunter-gatherers and [...]

What? A regional conference and policy dialogue to advance the case for agroecology as the most relevant approach for agriculture resilience and reducing risks to farmers, in climate change [...]

African farmers have been planting, saving and exchanging seeds for countless generations – adapting them to their environment, their cultures and their tastes. Thanks to them, Africa has a rich [...]

Policy Paper on Community Land Tenure and Management Terms of Reference AFSA is looking for a consultant to produce a policy paper on land rights. The policy paper shall emphasize on community [...]

Welcome to the AFSA 2018 annual report. We had a brilliant year in 2018. So many great achievements and memories that will last. We must continue to celebrate victories (no matter how small) and [...]