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).
02Oct, 13 While it is now widely acknowledged that a smallholder-based, agro-ecological food production system is the best way to eradicate hunger and to reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change
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”.