01Sep, 23 ZIMSOFF is implementing the BIZLUR project whose main target social groups are women and youths. The project has three interrelated themes namely peasant rights, leadership and governance and popular feminism. Understanding of these critical issues by the target groups is at different levels.
17Jul, 23 Building on the results of a recent peasant led baseline survey to assess local knowledge gaps on peasant rights, popular feminism and leadership and governance, ZIMSOFF held a two-day national workshop in May (from the 29th to 30th) on Peasant Rights as provided for under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in the Rural Areas (UNDROP).
20Jan, 23 Enia Mandebvu, from Northern Cluster Chikwangwadza, has been a member of ZIMSOFF for some years now. He was motivated to join ZIMSOFF when he became aware of the potential health benefits of eating good and healthy food and the harm caused by unhealthy foods.
06Jan, 23 Robert Simbanegavi, from Simbanegavi Village, Gutu District shares his story about how the challenges he faced growing crops using synthetic fertilizers and hybrid seeds. His situation changed when discovered alternative ways of growing crops after receiving training on agroecology.
24Sep, 21 Thursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people going hungry and 1.9 billion labelled obese, by better aligning food systems with development goals. But it won’t achieve any of this.
20Jun, 21 A poem by Elizabeth Mpofu, the General Coordinator of Via Campesina.
23Jul, 19 La Via Campesina southern and eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) is in solidarity with the communities of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe affected by Cyclone Idai and Kenneth in March and April
19Jul, 19 We, La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa youth articulation delegates from eight organizations (ESAFF Uganda, ZIMSOFF, Kenyan Peasant League, COPACO, Landless People
27Oct, 17 Ngoni Chikowe, a peasant farmer from Zimbabwe and a member of ZIMSOFF is part of the La Via Campesina delegation in Geneva this week that is joining the Peoples’ Mobilisation during the third UN
19Dec, 16 In her last regular column for Farming Matters, Elizabeth Mpofu makes a plea for governments to listen to pastoralists, particularly the women among them.
25Nov, 16 Elizabeth Mpfou, general coordinator of La Via Campesina and a small holder farmer who also leads the Zimbabwe Small Holder Farmers’ Forum (ZIMSOFF), made a presentation at the Global Dialogue held in
29Aug, 16 Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has hosted on it’s Family Farming Knowledge Platform profiles of successful agroecology, carried out by members of La Via Campesina(LVC).
Created in 2002, the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) “envisions improved livelihoods of organized and empowered smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe practicing sustainable and viable ecological agriculture and its mission statement is to influence policies and public awareness towards agro ecology and smallholder farmers’ rights”.