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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 [...]

‘Know Agroecology’ is a media guide for African journalists and communicators to better understand and share information about agroecology and food sovereignty. It has been produced in English [...]

Titled “The Real Seed Producers” this analysis of the role of small-scale farmers in saving Africa’s seed diversity was co-published by GRAIN and AFSA, together with research partners from [...]

A 3-year process of research, reflection and citizen engagement Concept Note, February 2019 Over 2019-2021, AFSA is undertaking a collaborative process of research and reflection to identify what [...]

AFSA held a major conference on African Food Systems and the SDGs in Saly, Senegal, 3-5 November 2018, The conference was built around five thematic areas: Urban food systems Food systems, [...]

In response to the open consultation on the report and recommendations of the Task Force Rural Africa Now is the time for Agroecology May 2019 This African civil society statement is in response [...]

The Problem Around 80% of the food consumed in Africa is produced locally and, as various researches show, the vast majority of farmers who provide this food use locally adapted seeds from [...]