MVIWATA a member of La Via Campesina South and East Africa attended a six days Regional Meeting in Kampala Uganda by been represented by her members Mr. Hans Luwanja and Geovita Juston together with a Communication Officer Michael Neligwa.
The Annual LVC SEAF Regional Meeting focused on presentations of activities from member organizations including MVIWATA from Tanzania, ZIMSOFF from Zimbabwe, UNAC from Mozambique, ESSAF-UGANDA from Uganda, Kenya Peasants League from Kenya, FSC and LPM both from South Africa, presentation of the annual report from the LVC SEAF secretariat and the validation of the annual plan for 2019-2020 activities.
This three (3) days Regional Meeting was preceded by a three (3) days Communication Strategy Planning session by communication officers from member organizations of LVC SEAF. The communication strategy aims to define the channels of communication to disseminate information to the public about the interventions held by LVC SEAF.
Conclusively, the LVC SEAF Annual Regional meeting was successful conducted with lots of contributions from member organizations on the experience of smallholder farmers struggle on access to land, peasants agro-ecology and climate and environment justice.
A lot of exchange of ideas and experiences about the struggle of smallholder food producers in various aspects was observed and member organizations made a commitment to replicate the struggles where relevant to their organizations.
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