July was a month of action, learning and solidarity as members of the Rural Women's Assembly South Africa continued to advance the #OneWomanOneHectare campaign through agroecology, collective action and community…
Concern and fear are growing within communities in the face of cases involving missing persons, missing children, kidnappings, rape and violence. Children are not the only ones affected; many adults…
Across Lesotho's villages and farming communities, rural women continue to prove that they are not only food producers but also custodians of knowledge, advocates for justice, and drivers of community…
Read the declaration in English | Lire en Français | Ler em Português We, the rural women, small-scale farmers, peasant producers, agroecology practitioners, seed custodians, farm workers, fishers, and leaders…
By the third day of the Rural Women’s Assembly Consultative Dialogue, the room had travelled far. It had begun with seeds: seeds stored in jars, carried through generations and protected…
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…
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…
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…
The Rural Women’s Assembly has been featured in an interview by Defending Peasants’ Rights, reflecting on corporate impunity, seed sovereignty, UNDROP, and the struggles of rural women across Southern Africa.…