🌱 SEED IS LIFE 2026 IS HERE.

Today, AFSA officially launches the 2026 Seed Is Life Campaign — our continent-wide call to protect Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and defend farmers' rights to seed.

80% of Africa's food comes from farmers' seeds.
Seeds that have been saved, exchanged, and nurtured across generations.
Seeds that feed families, sustain cultures, and anchor food sovereignty.

Yet today, these seeds — and the farmers who grow them — are under threat.

Corporate seed laws. UPOV-aligned legislation. GMO expansion. All designed to take control of our seeds out of our hands.

Not on our watch. 🌿

From April 25–27, join us as we celebrate, claim, and defend our seed sovereignty — on International Seed Day and beyond.

This year, AFSA's Seed and Agroecology Working Group — with UNDROP — hosted a landmark trilingual consultation on Farmers' Rights to Seed, bringing together farmers, advocates, and policymakers in English, French, Portuguese and Kiswahili.

Because our seeds are not just crops.
They are identity. Culture. Sovereignty. Life.

👉 Read the full campaign brief & join the movement:
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/seed-is-life-our-seeds-our-rights-our-future
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/ma-semence-ma-vie-nos-semences-nos-droits-notre-avenir

🔁 Share this. Tag your networks. Amplify the message.
#SeedIsLife #FMSS #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty
#OurSeedsOurRights #NoToUPOV #NoToGMOs
#AfricanSeeds #Agroecology #AFSA

🌱 SEED IS LIFE 2026 IS HERE.

Today, AFSA officially launches the 2026 Seed Is Life Campaign — our continent-wide call to protect Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and defend farmers' rights to seed.

80% of Africa's food comes from farmers' seeds.
Seeds that have been saved, exchanged, and nurtured across generations.
Seeds that feed families, sustain cultures, and anchor food sovereignty.

Yet today, these seeds — and the farmers who grow them — are under threat.

Corporate seed laws. UPOV-aligned legislation. GMO expansion. All designed to take control of our seeds out of our hands.

Not on our watch. 🌿

From April 25–27, join us as we celebrate, claim, and defend our seed sovereignty — on International Seed Day and beyond.

This year, AFSA's Seed and Agroecology Working Group — with UNDROP — hosted a landmark trilingual consultation on Farmers' Rights to Seed, bringing together farmers, advocates, and policymakers in English, French, Portuguese and Kiswahili.

Because our seeds are not just crops.
They are identity. Culture. Sovereignty. Life.

👉 Read the full campaign brief & join the movement:
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/seed-is-life-our-seeds-our-rights-our-future

🔁 Share this. Tag your networks. Amplify the message.
#SeedIsLife #FMSS #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty
#OurSeedsOurRights #NoToUPOV #NoToGMOs
#AfricanSeeds #Agroecology #AFSA

We hear a lot about fertilizer crises. But far less about the solutions.

In an era of constant shocks, farming that doesn’t rely on unreliable fossil inputs – like #agroecology – is key to resilient #foodsystems.

Time to scale what works.

👉 https://www.scidev.net/global/news/agroecology-mideast-food-insecurity/

Quatre des plus gros opérateurs agrivoltaïques "français" ont vu leur président personne morale changer entre 2022 et 2025, selon BODACC et INPI RNE.

Neoen présidée par Brookfield Renewable Holdings (fonds canadien).
Photosol par Rubis Photosol (SBF 120).
Amarenco pilotée depuis l'Irlande.
Ombrea absorbée par TotalEnergies.

Qui viendra ensuite ?

Article, code, carte interactive, dataset

→ https://panoptic.tawiza.fr

#opensource #transitionenergetique #energie #agroecology #agriculture

If you come across a well-established farm, don’t ignore it respect the time, money, and effort behind it and learn from it

Setting up a regenerative farm is not easy. Our farm is still in progress, and we face real challenges like digging trenches only for them to get filled again after heavy rain.

#Permaculture #regenerative_agriculture #Agroecology #SustainableFarming #FarmJourney #EYNFarm #SoilHealth

🌍 AFSA's New Website is Live — and We Built it For You.

After months of dedicated work, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is proud to announce the launch of our completely reimagined digital home at http://afsafrica.org

Our new website is more than a refresh — it is a dynamic platform for the largest Civil Society Movement in Africa. Explore our four Pan-African campaigns, discover our Theory of Change, dive into a fully searchable Knowledge Library with hundreds of resources, and meet the 48 member alliances across 50 African countries that make this movement possible.

We built this space for our members, partners, donors, journalists, researchers, and everyone who believes Africa has the right to define its own food future. Come explore — and share it with your networks.

Read more
https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/our-new-website-is-live-explore-afsafricaorg

https://mailchi.mp/afsafrica.org/notre-nouveau-site-web-est-en-ligne-dcouvrez-afsafricaorg

👉 http://afsafrica.org

#AFSA #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology #Africa #FoodSystems

Ara que, se suposa que ja, sí que sí, tindrem menys energia i decreixerem... Hi ha una bona notícia (pel que fa a no passar massa fam): amb l'agroecologia es poden fer meravelles, i sabem com fer-les.

La mala notícia és que s'ha de treballar molt, oblideu-vos dels cants de sirena dels teòrics decreixentistes (o també dels green new dealers) que parlen de “viure millor treballant menys”.

#agroecología #agroecology