A vibrant, prosperous and sustainable farming sector that ensures food security and contributes to economic growth in southern Africa.

To be the main voice of farmers on regional, continental and global matters, and to promote and ensure strong and effective farmers/producers’ organisations in all countries in southern Africa.

SACAU is founded on the following values and principles:


• Voluntary membership
• Democratic control by members
• Transparency in all operations
• Responsibility and honesty
• Addressing matters on merit
• No discrimination based on race, colour, creed, religion, gender and farm size

SACAU’s Strategic Framework is based on three strategic pillars, namely:

1) Policy advocacy on regional, continental and global matters.
2) Strengthening of the capacity of farmers’organisations.
3) Provision of agriculture-related information.

Cross cutting issues are gender, environment and HIV/AIDS.

• Goal 1: To promote the creation of an enabling environment that allows southern African farmers to realise their productive potential by influencing regional, continental and global policies and programmes related to agriculture.
  Related objectives:
  > To strengthen the capacity of SACAU in policy development and advocacy.
  > To increase the visibility of SACAU in policy and programme development processes.
  > To improve the effectiveness of SACAU’s engagement in policy and programme development.



• Goal 2: To support the establishment and development of strong, credible and sustainable farmers’ organisations (FOs) in the region that provide effective and efficient support services to farmers and other stakeholders.
  Related objectives:
  > To improve the relevance of southern African FOs to farmers.
  > To improve the credibility of southern African FOs to key stakeholders.
  > To strengthen the participation of southern African FOs in the development of policies and programmes.
  > To strengthen southern African regional commodity organisations.



• Goal 3: To support strategic decision making in agriculture by southern African FOs and other stakeholders through timely provision of appropriate information.
  Related objectives:
  > To promote greater use of information in decision making.
  > To develop and position SACAU as main source of information on FOs in the region.
  > To promote information exchange amongst key players in the sector.

-President: Mr Doug Taylor-Freeme (CFU, Zimbabwe)		-Ordinary board member: Mrs Effatah Jele (ZNFU, Zambia)
-Vice President: Mr Felix Jumbe (FUM, Malawi)		-Ordinary board member: Mr Salum Shamte (ACT, Tanzania)
-Vice President: Dr Theo de Jager (AgriSA, South Africa)		-CEO and board secretary: Mr Ishmael Sunga