- SACAU 2011 Annual General Meeting was be held on 19 May 2011 in Vereeniging, South Africa.
View the media release on the SACAU 2010 AGM …English , French
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- The SACAU 2010 Annual General Meeting was held on 31 March 2010 in Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa .
View the press release on the SACAU 2010 AGM …
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French
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- SACAU 2009 Annual General Meeting was held on 17 April 2009 in Durban, South Africa.
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- SACAU 2011 Policy Conference was held on 17-18 May 2011 in Vereeniging, South Africa under the theme ‘GMOs in agricultural development - Perspectives of farmers in Southern Africa’
View the SACAU 2011 Policy Conference programme.
View the presentations made at the Conference:
- SACAU - ‘Setting the scene’
- AFSTA - ‘Role of Biotechnology to enhance agriculture production, productivity and farmer incomes’
- Biowatch South Africa - ‘GM agriculture- promises or problems for farming in South Africa?’
- Biosafety SA - Developments in agricultural GM technologies for Africa’
- TRALAC - ‘International trade and market access issues related to GMOs: a developing country perpective’
- University of Pretoria – ‘14 years of GM crops in South Africa – lessons for the rest of Southern Africa’
- ABSA Agri-business – ‘Agricultural finance within an ever changing technology environment’
- AfricaBIo - ‘The existing policy framework on GMOs in the region’
For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
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The SACAU 2010 policy conference was held on 29-30 March, 2010 at the Misty Hills Country Hotel and Conference Centre, in Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa.
View the SACAU 2010 Policy Conference Report.
View the SACAU 2010 Policy Conference Programme.
View the presentations made at the Conference:
- PLAAS - ‘Land in Southern Africa – Key Issues for Farmers and Policy Options’
- Absa AgriBusiness – ‘Agricultural Finance and Land issues’
- Land Bank AERIS – ‘Land and Agri-Business’
- AU Commission – ‘Cadre de la Politique Foncière en Afrique - Land Policy Framework in Africa’
- CIRAD/UP – ‘ Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Southern Africa : Analysis, Perspectives and Regulation’
- IFAD – 'Land Tenure Security and Agriculture in Africa : an IFAD perspective’
For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
- SACAU 2009 policy conference was held on 15-16 April 2009 in Durban, South Africa.
View the press release on the SACAU 2009 AGM …English
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French
View the Conference programme
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- SACAU organised a FO positioning workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa on 19-21 October 2011 in preparation for its participation at COP17.
View the workshop programme.
View the presentations made at the workshop:
- SACAU- ‘Agriculture and the Climate change negotiations’
- FAO – ‘Climate Finance for Mitigation and Adaptation for the Agriculture Sector- with reference to Africa’
- NPCA – ‘Agriculture and Climate change – Africa’s compelling case’
- COMESA – ‘Overview of the COMESA climate change programme ‘
- FANRPAN – ‘FANRPAN Climate change initiatives’
Please view the position statement : simply formatted ….English, French, Portuguese; fully designed …. English, French, Portuguese.
For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
- SACAU co-hosted with FAO a workshop on ‘Strengthening the capacity of Farmer Organisations (FOs) to respond to changing agriculture markets for the Southern African region’ ! from 30th August to 2nd September 2011, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
View the presentations made at the workshop:
- ‘Contract negotiations and management’
- ‘Logistics, post-harvest and collective marketing’
- ‘The role of ‘Farmers’Organisations’ in value addition’
- ‘Case study: The National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE)’
- ‘Case study: Onions from commercial villages in Kieni West.’
- ‘Case study: Kamuganguzi Potato Growers’ and Marketing Association supplying NANDOS Fast Food Restaurant’
For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
- SACAU organised a regional workshop on ‘Climate Change and Agriculture in Southern Africa’ from 2-3 December 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
- SACAU organised a workshop on ‘Strengthening the Governance of SACAU’ from 15-16 November 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
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- The meeting for finalizing the establishment of the Southern African Cotton Producers Association (SACPA) was held from 24-25 August 2011 in Pretoria, South Africa.
Please view the Declaration on the establishment of SACPA.
For more information, please contact info@sacau.org
- The meeting for sharing the findings of studies on the cotton sector and discuss the status of cotton associations in Southern Africa was held from 25-26 November 2010 in Pretoria, South Africa. For more information, please contact info@sacau.org
- The regional meeting for sharing experiences in Cotton Contract Negotiations was held on October 22, 2010 in Pretoria, South Africa. For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
- The regional meeting for preparing for the 2010 CAADP Africa Forum ‘Meeting the challenges of Climate Change – Strategies of Smallholder Farmers’ was held from 25-26 August 2010 in Benoni, South Africa. For more information, please contact info@sacau.org.
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