Bunda College Application for Confined Field Trial (CFT) of Bt-Cowpea
Bt COW PEA CFT Application NBRC 2015
View ArticleFarmers in Nigeria refuse to give up lands for massive rice plantation backed...
Farmers in Nigeria’s north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 30,000 ha rice plantation. The...
View ArticleDeclaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
Nyéléni, Mali 27 February 2015 We are delegates representing diverse organizations and international movements of small-scale food producers and consumers, including peasants, indigenous peoples and...
View ArticleMalawi Civil Society Coalition Vehemently Oppose Field Trials of GM Cowpea
Malawi Civil Society GM Cowpea Submission
View ArticleMalawi Civil Society Oppose Field Trials of GM Cowpea
MALAWI CIVIL SOCIETY INTERROGATE AND CHALLENGE THE BUNDA COLLEGE APPLICATION Lilongwe, 3 March 2015 An alliance of 19 civil society organisations and a GMO-resistance movement led by the Commons for...
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Sign-on letter opposing the Bunda College application for CFT of GM cowpea...
The Biosafety Registrar Environmental Affairs Department Lingadzi House, City Centre P/Bag 394 Lilongwe 3 Malawi. Tel. +265 1 775 062 Fax. +265 1 773 379 Email: kachimera_7@yahoo.com We, the...
View ArticleAFSA DEMANDS INCLUSION OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN G7 AGENDA
AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY DEMANDS INCLUSION OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN THE GERMANY G7 PRESIDENCY AGENDA Download PDF here: AFSA Demands to the Germany G7 Presidency Agenda
View ArticleWhy an Alliance for Food Sovereignty?
CONTEXT More than 65 percent of the population of Africa depends on agriculture for labour and livelihoods. This agriculture is almost completely rain-fed, with only about 4 per cent of arable land...
View ArticleNo GM Bananas on World Environment Day!
MEDIA RELEASE by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, GM Free Latin America, GM Free Australia Alliance, and GMO Free FNQ Professor James Dale, GMO banana project leader, will be the keynote...
View ArticleARIPO Shuns African Farmers over PVP Protocol
ARIPO Shuns African Farmers over PVP Protocol Abolishing Farmers’ Rights to Seeds MEDIA ADVISORY: ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA (AFSA) Addis Ababa, 9th June 2015 The Alliance for Food...
View ArticleInterview on Talking Stick TV with Dr. Million Belay and Bridget Mugambe
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View ArticleSecretariat
AFSA has a small secretariat. This is because of AFSA’s principle that resources should be redirected to member networks rather than consumed by bigger staff members. This provides members direct...
View ArticleDraft ARIPO Plant Variety Protocol Undermines Farmers’ Right to Save,...
An analysis by Sangeeta Shashikant (Third World Network) A new draft legal framework for the protection of new plant varieties under consideration by the African Regional Intellectual Property...
View ArticleAFSA CALLS ON AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AT ARUSHA MEETING TO SHUN PROTOCOL THAT...
Nineteen African nations, members of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), began deliberatingon the highly contentious draft ARIPO Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Protocol on...
View ArticleTANZANIAN CIVIL SOCIETY URGES GOVERNMENT TO HALT ADOPTION OF ARIPO PROTOCOL –...
Twenty-two civil society organisations that make up the Tanzania Alliance for Biodiversity call on Government to halt the adoption of the controversial ARIPO protocol planned for Ministerial signature...
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The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) released a new report – GM and seed...
The report shows a strong interest by the seed industry in commercialising cowpea seed production and distribution in West Africa, where a very lucrative regional cowpea seed market is emerging....
View ArticleARIPO sells out African Farmers, seals Secret Deal on Plant Variety Protection
Statement issued by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) On 06 July 2015, in Arusha, Tanzania, a Diplomatic Conference held under the auspices of the African Regional Intellectual...
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Official Statement on the Passing of Chief Alangeh Romanus Che
We are all very saddened by the passing away of Chief Alangeh Romanus Che who was a member of the AFSA Steering Committee from its inception. Chief Romanus was a prominent, highly regarded and...
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