This week, on the 24th and 25th of April 2017, AFSA Members - the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Friends of the Earth Africa - put together a…

In February, during the Alternative Mining Indaba, the People’s Dialogue and WoMin organised a public meeting where rural women spoke out about the condition that they live and work under.…

We are currently in a situation of rapidly worsening planetary emergency, with climate change deteriorating and ecological boundaries exceeding thresholds. While the COP22 was being held last year the World…

New Politics Conference on the “Crisis of Politics and the Politics of Crisis”. A compelling international conference where 60 activists from around the world (except from Asia, regrettably) converged to develop new left thinking and…

Extractivism is a violent, disruptive form of accumulation – it has destroyed previous modes of production with millions of people being deprived of land, water and their modes of subsistence.…

Over 60 grassroots activists gathered in Cape Town on February 8 for a two hour information session about the campaign against Trans-National Corporations (TNC). The event was organised by the…

The Peoples’ Dialogue (PD), Women in Mining and the AIDC (Alternative Information Centre) held a meeting in Cape Town (13-14th March 2017), to interrogate extractivism as a model of development…

Mobilização ás Uniões Provinciais de Camponeses pela Ocasião de 17 de Abril Dia Internacional da Luta dos Camponeses   Carrissimos Companheiros Carrissimas Companheiras O dia 17 de Abril foi declarado…

Josephine Fugre is a small holder farmer from Mukwe in the Kavango East region in the north eastern part of Namibia. She has been farming since 2011. Josephine depends largely on…

With the increasing drought in Africa, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is often proposed to enable small holder farmers to adapt or mitigate and become more resilient. It is also considered as a…