To influence policy to upscale food sovereignty and family farming
ZIMSOFF will continue with its coordination and administration function within the collaborative with Afrika Kontakt (AK) of Denmark and LVC Southern and Eastern Africa (SEAf region) on the regional project “Pathway to Climate Justice” for the next 36 months beginning January 2019. The project targets to build capacity of smallholder farmers in 9 members of the SEAf region to organise for political change and collaborate on shared advocacy strategies, which is needed to strengthen responses to climate change and to increase their representation in the current agenda of agricultural development in the region, that is being promoted by political bodies such as Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), targeted towards large-scale market actors and industrial farming techniques.
