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   Justus Lavi Mungau Mwololo March 6, 2023 Reply

   We are Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum KESSFF a registered grassroots village based membership network of Small Scale Farmers Forum KESSFF operating in 75%of the Republic of Kenya and part of a similar larger regional network for East Central and South African Countries ESAFF.
   Born out of the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development WSSD02 in Johannesburg South Africa we bring together SSFs through empowering them with capacities to articulate issues affecting them namely domestic and global policies domestic and international market access and availability of SSFs friendly credit, which is our efforts to participate in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDGs.
   Over the years we have participated in African Growth and Opportunities Act AGOA, World Trade Organisation WTO United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD, Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICAD, and the African Union AU DELIBERATIONS like AfCTA,ECOWAS, SADEC, and the EAC INTERATIION PROCESS.
   However we have realised that SSFs are adversely affected by Climate Change CC effects due to droughts floods and landslides hence for mitigation and adaptation measures we are using Agroecological techniques ie Organic Farming, Agroforestry and Permaculture and for sustainability we are implementing Runoff Rain Water Harvesting Projects RWHP at the grassroots village levels especially in the Arid and Semi Arid Lands ASALs, whose water harvested is being used for both agricultural and domestic purposes.
   Also having been the Facilitator For East African Civil Society Mechanism CSM in UN FAO attending the UN Committee on Food Security CFS where we disseminate information on the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land Forests and Fisheries VGGT in context of National Food Security Systems NFSS then with the Kenya Government, Private Sector Organisations PSOs and Civil Society Organisation CSOs.