The training and meeting gathering about 145 farmer leaders from 21st September to 23rd September ended with a call for strengthened networks for reclaiming farmers’ dignity and rights on land, seeds, life and more. This zonal meeting saw the participation of MVIWATA leaders, promoters from Mbeya, Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma and...

First agroecological market centre owned by MVIWATA opens in Morogoro operating to collect from the smallholder farmers members of MVIWATA the vast produced agroecological produces and distribute to the wider community. Within MVIWATA, Marketing of farmers produces to ensure better prices and fair distribution has been at the core of...

Under the banner ‘Dilemmas of Humanity – Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism’, the conference started from 17th July expected to end up on 20th July 2023 has gathered more than 200 delegates representing about 40 peoples’ movements and organisations throughout the African Continent including The National Union of Metalworkers...

The 2022 MVIWATA Annual General meeting (AGM) that took place on 17th and 18th November 2022 was attended by 519 (242 women, 277 men) delegates including MVIWATA members from Tanzania (both mainland and Zanzibar). The AGM also had the participation of other organizations and individuals affiliated to MVIWATA and the...

MVIWATA participated in a solidarity meeting hosted by Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation with Hon. Yuri Moura, Venezuelan Vice Minister for Africa as the Guest of Honor. The meeting held on September had also the attendance of Honorable Ambassadors of Venezuela, Algeria, Palestine, Western Sahara and Cuba....

In March 2022, MVIWATA hosted a regional Peasant Feminism workshop where 72 (56 women, 16 men) participants from La Via Campesina member organizations which are MVIWATA (Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania), ESAFF- Uganda (Eastern and Southern small scale farmers forum in Uganda), KPL (Kenyan Peasants League), COPACO (Confederation Paysanne...

Joining smallholder farmers’ organizations across Eastern and Southern Africa, ESAFF, founded in 2002, celebrated its 20 years anniversary in 2022 with events under ESAFF@20 banner. The celebrations, marked on the 25th and 26th August, in Dar-es-Salaam, joined ESAFF member organizations representation from Tanzania (MVIWATA), Uganda (ESAFF Uganda), DR Congo, Zambia...

Our Condolences, to the Family of Lindo MVIWATA was saddened by the news of the brutal assassination of our dearly Comrade Lindo, a 28 years of age, calm and charismatic leader of the Ekhenana Commune, part of the South African shack dwellers movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo (ABM) whom we’ve been engaging...

Started out of the need of amplifying its advocacy role and informing the wider community on events from different parts of the world, MVIWATA FM on 28th August 2022, started to air a weekly session titled “WIKI HII” a Swahili name translated as “THIS WEEK”, a session that brings to...

This year’s Nane Nane (Farmers Day) was celebrated across MVIWATA networks through local demonstrations, farmer based discussions, local seeds exhibitions through a slogan that was set to remind everyone on the important role of “feeding the nation”, as proudly held by the smallholder farmers in Tanzania. Despite its sheer significance,...