RWA IDPS 2026 Statement: Our Land, Our Seeds, Our Resistance
Read in French/Portuguese On the International Day of Peasant Struggles, we are not just commemorating. We speak as rural women, as peasants, as fishers and as food producers from lived…
Read in French/Portuguese On the International Day of Peasant Struggles, we are not just commemorating. We speak as rural women, as peasants, as fishers and as food producers from lived…
Read in Afrikaans/Sesotho/Kiswahili/English Across the world, millions of rural people wake each day to cultivate the land, protect seeds, harvest food, and sustain life. They are smallholder farmers, fishers, pastoralists,…
Background The International Day of Peasant Struggles (17 April) is a moment for RWA in collaboration with TCOE to honour and commemorate the lives, struggles, and resistance of peasants, small-scale…
Editorial March has asked us to hold many truths at once. It is the month where we celebrate women, their power, their care, their resistance and their ability to hold communities together…
Context In January 2026, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA), initiated an evidence-based field assessment to determine the scale and impact of flooding on women farmers in Limpopo Province. The assessment…
Listen to Alice share in her own words “Good afternoon sisters. In Malawi we are experiencing cyclones and extreme weather that are increasing climate-related disasters. Our communities are facing floods,…
“In the case of Zimbabwe, we share borders with Mozambique and we were also affected by the cyclones. The 2025–2026 agricultural season started with heavy rainfall in some provinces, and…
Listen to Carla narrate the crisis in her own words Story 1 - Carla English Version My name is Carla Virgílio Coan, a young rural woman from Mozambique. I live…
Across Southern Africa we are living through a period of deepening crisis. The climate crisis is no longer something we speak about as a distant threat. It is visible in…
As the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) we speak with urgency grounded not only in statistics, but in lived realities. Across Southern Africa, the climate crisis is not an abstract future…