Africa Rejects Agribiz

A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution

A revolutionary new initiative in African farming was launched earlier this year as part of the annual International Fair of Animal Resources (FIARA) in Dakar, Senegal. It draws together twelve rural women’s networks from across the west African countries of Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Ghana into a campaign entitled 'Nous Sommes La Solution! Célébrons l'agriculture familiale' - 'We Are The Solution! A celebration of family farming.'

The campaign’s aims include gathering together the best in African farming knowledge and technology, acting as a bulwark against the needless industrialisation of the continent’s agriculture and facilitating the empowerment of women within rural communities.

NOTE: This is wonderful news. The African countries may prevent themselves from being destroyed further by GMO, pesticides. By returning to the basics that sustained them for millions of years, they can prosper