Organizers

Zimbabwe Small Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF)

Zimbabwe Small Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) is a forum for smallholder farmers Zimbabwe Small Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) is a forum for smallholder farmers practicing in organic agriculture in Zimbabwe.
 It was formed to create and nurture a dynamic alliance of Smallholder Farmer Organizations (SFOs). ZIMSOFF promotes organic farming, processing and marketing, in partnership with PELUM Zimbabwe Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) to uplift the welfare of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe through participatory ecological land use planning and management. It is members of La Via Campesina and currently hosts the international secretariat of La Via Campesina.

Rural Women Assembly (RWA)/Zimbabwe

RWA is a membership based coalition of grassroots women which is aimed at amplifying the voices of grassroots women to speak with one voice to influence processes at local, regional and international levels. This is also a space for information sharing, creating market linkages, advocacy, formation of commodity associations and networking.

Alice Project/Centre for Social Studies-University of Coimbra

ALICE is a research project coordinated by professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos that seeks to re-think and renovate socio-scientific knowledge by drawing upon “Epistemologies of the South, an approach proposed by Santos. The objective is to develop new theoretical and political paradigms of social transformation. Throughout Europe and the Global North as a whole, there is a sentiment of intellectual and political exhaustion. ALICE operates under the auspices of the Centre for Social Studies (CES) – an Associate Laboratory of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

African Institute of Agrarian Studies

The African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) has been in operation for thirteen years since the beginning of its operations in 2003. It was established and registered as a Trust in 2002 to influence land and natural resources policies through multidisciplinary social science research, policy dialogues, and training and information dissemination. AIAS interacts with various organizations and countries to assist them in developing capacity for policy formulation and research. It also facilitates policy dialogue among governments, academics, civil society and others on land and agrarian development, especially the land rights of marginalized social groups.