As African leaders and stakeholders gather for the 2026 AU Seed Summit under the theme “Resilient Seed Systems for a Food Secure Africa,” the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) SADC is…
The unfolding events in South Africa should concern every African. Images of frightened families fleeing their homes, businesses being abandoned, children missing school, and communities turning against one another remind…
Lire en Français | Ler em Português The Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) is a movement of rural women, small scale farmers, peasants, farmworkers and fishers from across 11 countries of…
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…
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…
We as rural women of Lesotho to reflect, learn, and raise our collective voice on the future of our food systems. Climate change continues to affect our land, water, crops,…
“Climate Debt, Reparations, and Justice for Rural Women” Women of the Land Speak We, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) a movement of smallholder rural women farmers, food producers, and rural…
As the world marks International Day of Rural Women (15 October) and World Food Day (16 October), the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) reminds us that the struggle for food security…