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Venue: Mosaic Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Date: 24-26 November 2016 Organization: Organized by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative for Africa (EOA-I), AfrONet, IFOAM – Organics International and others. Nature of Conference: A 3-day conference on changing food systems in Africa in the context of agro-ecology and nutrition. Presentations,

On the 25th August 2016, PELUM Kenya held an Organic Agriculture Market Forum at the Sportsview Hotel Kasarani. the forum brought together over 100 participants comprised of PELUM Kenya member organizations, Farmers, organic traders, organic input suppliers and organic support services; certification bodies, government representatives and financial institutions. Four panelists sessions comprising key organic market

PELUM Kenya held a workshop on Climate change: Resilience and Impact on Food Security from 11th to 13th May 2016. The target participants were PELUM Kenya Member Organizations staff who have been assigned Climate Change responsibilities in Member organizations.The purpose of the workshop was to build resilience for adaptation to climate change in agriculture to

PELUM Kenya held an advocacy review meeting for its network members on 3rd December 2015 at Hillcourt Hotel- Nakuru County. The objectives of the review meeting were to: a) Review the progress made in 2015 in the zones and identify lesson learnt that can improve on implementation b) Discuss and agree on tools for data

PELUM Kenya held a training on marketing and agribusiness on 3rd to 5th November 2015 at the Hillcourt Hotel Nakuru. Participants were trained on value chain development, marketing and Market development and as well on organic agriculture, standards and certification.The training was identified as a priority capacity need for PELUM Kenya network during the 2015

PELUM Kenya held an organic talk to a section of Kenya Utalii College students and staff on 29th October 2015. The talk aimed at creating awareness on the importance of Organic food and farming; popularizing the Green Action Week campaigns; creating awareness on the East African Organic mark of standardization and profiling the organic outlets

PELUM Kenya in partnership with the Sub-County government- Mwala and the lead PELUM Kenya MO-Inades Formation Kenya held an organic food day on the World Food Day (16th October 2015) at Mwala Sub-County- Machakos County. The organic food fair was attended by approximately 200 farmers and other like minded stakeholders. The organic food fair was

PELUM Kenya is currently implementing the Green Action Week initiative. Green Action Week (GAW) is an annual civil society initiative to promote sustainable consumption. The theme for the 2015 GAW is organic food and farming for all. PELUM Kenya requests the general public to share with us a comment on organic foods and farming together

PELUM Kenya in partnership with its member organization Inades Formation Kenya will hold the 2015 World Food Day (WFD) celebrations at Mwala market-Machakos County on 16th October 2015. The theme for the 2015 WFD celebrations will be Social Protection and Agriculture. This theme has been chosen to highlight its importance in reducing rural poverty and

The Green Action Week (GAW) is an annual civil society campaign to raise consumer awareness on sustainable consumption patterns. The campaign is an initiative by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and is coordinated jointly with Consumer International (CI). This year, GAW is focusing on organic food and farming for all. This theme is a