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 cooperation, exchange and solidarity among peoples. IAPC promotes education and training, technological development, technical support,...

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 role of peasant agriculture in Tanzania’s social, economic and political spheres. He reiterated the role...

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 of MVIWATA has at is core the significant role of both women and men in...

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 30 youthful years of their organization. Read more at https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/over-1500-farmers-gather-in-njombe-tanzania-for-mviwata-annual-meeting/ Watch a summary a...

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 zonal meeting saw the participation of MVIWATA leaders, promoters from Mbeya, Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma and...

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 farmers produces to ensure better prices and fair distribution has been at the core 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 40 peoples’ movements and organisations throughout the African Continent including The National Union of Metalworkers...

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 AGM also had the participation of other organizations and individuals affiliated to MVIWATA and 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 Honorable Ambassadors of Venezuela, Algeria, Palestine, Western Sahara and Cuba....

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 and Southern small scale farmers forum in Uganda), KPL (Kenyan Peasants League), COPACO (Confederation Paysanne...