A historic visit of the International Association for Popular Cooperation (IAPC) and GONDWANA to MVIWATA In March, MVIWATA received and hosted a delegation from IAPC and GONDWANA. IAPC is an international non-profit association that facilitates...

On Wednesday 6th March 2024, we were honored to be visited by the delegation of the Turkish Agency for Development and Cooperation (Tika), headed by the Country Director, Mrs. Filliz. The delegation and MVIWATA management...

MVIWATA officially launches a 5 year Food System Supply Services in Rural Tanzania, designed to facilitate small-holder farmers’ access to economic justice. In his remarks, MVIWATA Executive Director, Stephen Ruvuga reminded the participants on the...

At a time MVIWATA decided to dive into this approach, it knew that as an idea, having students around what are called clubs, formed for different purposes wasn’t a new thing; but one thing was...

2023 was the 30th year since the birth of MVIWATA and its mission of uniting smallholder farmers’ for a common voice in defense of their rights. Like in many other stories and processes, the history...

SOLIDARITY BEGINS WITH US – PEASANT WOMEN, MEN AND YOUTH At the rich and fertile land of Njombe, Tanzania, about 1500 peasants have gathered from different corners of the land of Mwalimu Nyerere, to commemorate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...