TOWARDS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY TO FEED AFRICA: NURTURE THE ENVIROMMENT AND PUT FARMERS AT THE CENTRE LOME, TOGO 19 JULY 2014 The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), an alliance of African farmer and civil society networks and allies met in Lome, Togo 17-19th July 2014 to celebrate the International Year of the Family Farming, and reaffirm their opposition to corporate driven industrial agriculture in Africa and commitment to food sovereignty. For AFSA, family farming is about small scale farming by local African communities who are the main food producers on the continent. AFSA is committed to small farmer led solutions to Africa’s food crisis and are vehemently opposed to measures imposed by for instance, the G8 New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN), spear headed by the world’s industrial powers. The explicit emphasis of NAFSN is to industrialise African agriculture and promote corporate control over Africa’s food systems. The NAFSN is pressuringafsafrica.org/category/resource/press-release/ ...see more...
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