Daily Monitor
Friday May 07 2021
Farmers water tomatoes at a garden in Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, last month. Some Civil Society Organisations have cancelled their participation in the United Nations Food Systems Summit. PHOTO/TOBBIAS JOLLY OWINY
Summary
According to them, large-scale agriculture also requires major investments in the form of machinery, grains and seeds meaning that poorer farmers in many African countries are excluded from the advantages of intensive agriculture.
In March 2018, delegates under the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) converged at a high-level UN summit in Rome, Italy, to drum up support for Agroecology in Africa.
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