Forum de la Femme Rurale Africaine

10/09/2026

𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

𝐴 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 30 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐶𝑂𝑃31 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑂𝑃32

After three days of the Continental Convening on Climate Action in Food Systems and Agriculture, organisations and movements from more than 30 countries, farmers, pastoralists, women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk and faith leaders, came together in Addis Ababa and issued a shared civil society position on the road to COP31 and COP32.

The Declaration sets out six key demands: putting adaptation, agriculture and food security at the centre of implementation, making climate finance accessible and locally accountable, funding African led agroecology and seed sovereignty, supporting a people centred just transition, making nutrition, health, gender and pastoralism visible in climate action, and building an African accountability architecture from Addis to communities.

"Africa must not wait for its food and climate future to be designed elsewhere. Our evidence must influence decisions, our solutions must be recognised, and climate finance must reach the people and places where adaptation is already happening."

The real test for and will not be the number of declarations adopted, but whether a farmer can withstand the next failed rainy season, a pastoralist can access water and grazing, and a child can grow up nourished rather than stunted by drought.

Download the full Addis Ababa Declaration here:

EN: https://afsafrica.org/blog/african-civil-society-issues-the-addis-ababa-declaration-on-climate-action-in-food-systems-and-agriculture/

FR: https://afsafrica.org/fr/blog/la-societe-civile-africaine-publie-la-declaration-daddis-abeba-sur-laction-climatique-dans-les-systemes-alimentaires-et-lagriculture/

07/09/2026

01/09/2026

29/08/2026

28/08/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐚𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞́ 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞

After three days of dialogue in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Second Congo Basin Convening has closed with 187 delegates from 20 countries adopting a 24-point regional declaration for agroecology, food systems, biodiversity and climate justice in the Congo Basin. This isn't a statement of good intentions — it names numbers, deadlines and a mandate: at least 30% of relevant food-system budgets dedicated to agroecology, secured community land rights and free, prior and informed consent, protected farmer seed systems, and at least 20% of climate and biodiversity finance flowing directly to farmer organisations, women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Governments, civil society, researchers, the private sector and media all leave Yaoundé with commitments of their own — and AFSA has been mandated to raise the funding and host the regional coordination unit that will carry this Declaration into action across the Congo Basin.

Closing the session, Elisabeth Atangana, President of CNOP-CAM and Treasurer of the AFSA Board, put a question to every delegate in the room: "What part of the Declaration depends on me?" The history of the Congo Basin, she said, will be written by those who turn commitments into action — not by those who make the finest speeches. Progress will be tracked and reported publicly, call by call, ahead of the Third Congo Basin Convening.

📄 Read the full Yaoundé Declaration 2026:

ENGLISH: https://afsafrica.org/blog/the-yaounde-declaration-the-congo-basin-names-its-price-for-change/

FRENCH: https://afsafrica.org/fr/blog/la-declaration-de-yaounde-le-bassin-du-congo-fixe-le-prix-du-changement/

28/08/2026

27/08/2026

25/08/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐘𝐚𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞́, 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐧

𝑨𝑭𝑺𝑨 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆-𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒕𝒚, 𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏

Yaoundé, Cameroon — 25 August 2026 — The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), together with the Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes au Cameroun (CNOP-CAM) and Congo Basin partners, today officially opens the Second Congo Basin Convening — "Securing the Heart of Africa: People, Nature, Food and Climate Resilience" — running from 25 to 27 August 2026 at the Franco Hôtel in Yaoundé.

Three years after the inaugural Congo Basin Summit in Kinshasa, DRC (August 2023), this second gathering brings together an estimated 120 delegates from the six Congo Basin countries — Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea — alongside representatives from Angola, Chad, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. Governments, farmer organisations, Indigenous Peoples, women's and youth movements, researchers, financial partners and civil society will spend three days reviewing progress since Kinshasa and charting a shared regional roadmap for inclusive agroecology, sustainable food systems, biodiversity conservation and climate justice.

The Convening will be officially opened by His Excellency Gabriel Mbaïrobe, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Cameroon, whose government graciously agreed to host the gathering. Ahead of today's opening, the AFSA delegation briefed the Minister on the Convening's preparations and final agenda, and thanked the Government of Cameroon for its support.

Day One brings the region's story into focus. Dr Million Belay, General Coordinator of AFSA, will introduce the Alliance's continental work; Joséphine Atangana, AFSA's Focal Point for the Congo Basin, will assess the achievements of the past three years and outline what this Convening aims to deliver; and Elisabeth Atangana, President of CNOP-CAM and Treasurer of the AFSA Board of Directors, will deliver welcome remarks ahead of the Minister's official opening address.

The day continues with plenary sessions on ecological resilience and the Congo Basin's financing needs, a community agroecology exhibition, and a Cameroonian cultural dinner in the evening.

Over the following two days, delegates will work through thematic sessions on land rights, climate justice and resource mobilisation, before adopting the Yaoundé 2026 Declaration and a regional action roadmap on 27 August.

https://afsafrica.org/blog/the-second-congo-basin-convening-opens-today-in-yaounde-cameroon/

01/04/2026

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