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Food is life! Do you stop and ask yourself where the food you eat comes from?
Our food system has been overtaken by greedy corporates who put profits before consumers and farmers. Ecological farming has the ability to put power back into farmers hands.

Ecological farming is a viable and more sustainable way of producing safe and healthier food. It does not contaminate the food with chemical inputs, and it protects the health of people and their environment.

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    Take the better eating challenge

    It's back! Today is #WorldMeatFreeDay, a great time to think about how the everyday choices we make about the food we eat can impact our health and the health of the planet. 

    Sue Dibb and Davin Hutchins
    2 min read
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    12 Things You Can Do To Start Eco-Food Revolution

    We literally have the power to change the world. When we tell our families and friends why ecological farming makes sense, we start to heal our bodies and the planet. We can make smarter food choices when we shop, cook or go out to eat.

    ltsotets
    2 min read
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    Conviction of Nasako Besingi: judicial harassment and violation of freedom of expression in Cameroon

    Yaounde, January 22: Greenpeace Africa is alarmed by the judicial harassment against a prominent environmental activist and human rights defender. Yesterday, Nasako Besingi was sentenced to pay 25,000 FCFA in fines and more than 400,000 FCFA in court charges or face 1 year in prison.

    Greenpeace Africa
    2 min read

  • Resilience Reports

    Our climate is changing and all over the world we are experiencing more unpredictable and uncertain weather than in the past. Those depending on the weather for their daily bread – farmers and farm workers – are feeling, and will continue to feel, climate change more intensively than everyone else. East Africa has first-hand experience…

    Greenpeace Africa

  • Irresponsible Investment

    Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies. The investment project receives considerable financial and technical…

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Ecological Farmer in Kenya. © Cheryl-Samantha Owen

    Financing Ecological Farming in Africa

    This report provides a resource to the donor community to facilitate the provision of support to ecological farming across Africa. We define donors broadly to include: governments providing bilateral overseas development assistance, multilateral financial institutions, philanthropies, and international (UN) development organisations.

    Greenpeace Africa