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This AFSA web briefing by authors of the report reveals the findings of the international study. False Promises documents the dramatic negative impacts of the AGRA Alliance on small-scale food [...]

See the edited highlights of the webinar or listen to the audio recording. The coronavirus crisis has clearly exposed the weakness of current food systems and the fragility of Africa’s dependence [...]

New study by a broad civil society alliance concludes: the agricultural alliance has failed to achieve its own goals. https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/42635 An international study [...]

You are invited to a conversation with the African Union and Food Sovereignty Activists from all sub-regions of Africa. AFSA Chairperson Dr Chris Macoloo will be asking the tough questions to [...]

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 [...]