Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers’ Forum(ESAFF)
About Company
Our story
Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) was formed during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in 2002 in South Africa. This was in an effort to create a Forum to bring together small-scale farmers into a social movement to influence favourable agriculture policies and practices at global, continental, regional, national and local levels.
ESAFF Uganda became operational in 2008 and has since become the largest small-scale farmer-led advocacy movement in Uganda. ESAFF Uganda works to enhance the SSFs ability to make informed decisions and participate meaningfully in development processes. ESAFF Uganda currently has a membership of a membership of 12588 small-scale farmer community organisations in 54 districts representing over 765,560 individual small-scale farmers of which 67 percent are women.
ESAFF Uganda is also part of a bigger network of small-scale farmers in 15 other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa including South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Lesotho, DR Congo, Madagascar, Seychelles and Mozambique.
ESAFF Uganda is also part of La Via Campesina (LVC) which is the largest peasant organisation in the world.
Vision and Mission
Our mission is “To create an enabling environment where small-scale farmers lead in building a just and resilient food system through advancing agroecology and food sovereignty, securing their rights to productive resources, safeguarding consumer rights, fair economic opportunities for all, promotion of public accountability of resources, and strengthening collaborative social movements at all levels.”
Our vision is “A just and resilient food system led by small-scale farmers”
