(Germany,Teisendorf, January 21, 2014)(al) It is certainly not an everyday occurrence, that a woman from Zimbabwe, who runs a small farm in that country, congratulates a young woman from Bavaria… Read more →
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SADC for the People, not corporations! Social Movements at the 2015 SADC Peoples´ Summit
MEDIA ADVISORY People’s Dialogue, Rural Women’s Assembly, Via Campesina Africa and World March of Women Gaborone, 13 August 2015 – Hundreds of people from social movements and grassroots organizations from… Read more →
Building a peasant revolution in Africa
The recent debate around the 2012 National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill in Uganda and the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) it promotes elevated issues related to food access across the country.… Read more →
Opinion: Women farm through knowledge sharing
First published in Farming Matters | 32.1 | March 2016 In an attempt to solve problems, people collectively ask questions and discuss and implement solutions. Elizabeth Mpofu describes how knowledge co-creation… Read more →
Women pastoralists: neglected in the 21st century
19 December 2016 In her last regular column for Farming Matters, Elizabeth Mpofu makes a plea for governments to listen to pastoralists, particularly the women among them. As a way… Read more →
Opinion: Agroecology for gender equality
Farming Matters | 32.3 | September 2016 How to attribute important social change to agroecology? Elizabeth Mpofu argues that agroecology builds social cohesion, providing the foundation for gender equality. There… Read more →
Alten Post interview Elizabeth Mpofu about G8/G7 Initiative
(Germany, Teisendorf, January 21, 2015) On the afternoon of January 21, 2015, before the talk of small farmer Elizabeth Mpofu from Zimbabwe, general secretary of the international peasant organization “Via… Read more →
People’s Expo in Milan puts focus on farmers’ rights not corporate concerns
(First published by The Guardian) Alternative Expo event challenges the city’s flashy global extravaganza, promoting food sovereignty and highlighting flawed trade agreements Rosie Scammell in Milan Monday 8 June 2015 A… Read more →
Not One Step Back
Big La Via Campesina mobilization in Durban “Climate change is not something which is inevitable, it can be managed, it can be stopped”, Zimbabwan peasant Elizabet Mpofu would say this… Read more →
Finally, UN General Assembly adopts Peasant Rights declaration! Now focus is on its implementation
Today, 17 December 2018, the 73 Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) in New York adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People… Read more →