08/08/2025
🌿Celebrating National Farmers' Day in Tanzania🌿
As we mark the agriculutral week, today may we all honour the unsung heroes of our nation - the smallholder farmers who are the lifeline of our food basket and the pillar of the national economy!
Its our tireless efforts to feed the nation and keep the nation food sufficient that contribute to keep our nation tranquil.
On this day, we, members of MVIWATA remind everyone that our food basket, our sovereignty and our future depend on the sweat and tireless work of the smallholder farmers. So we call upon the following;
✅️Dignity and Respect to small-scale farmers as an important section of the working class
✅️Economic Justice. Smash all exploitative chains in agricultural marketing and financing leading to deadly debt traps; alternatively develop rural based supply services owned and operated by farmers themselves
✅️ Ensure and protect land rights and other rights to the commons for small-scake farmers. Smash land grabbing, guarantee secure land tenure and resist eviction. Land is life, not a commodity!
✅️ Embark on Agroecology, Food sovereignty and Climate Justice; a production system that is based on people's rights, cultures and traditions. Fake Climate solutions should be smashed!
Mtetezi wa Mkulima ni Mkulima Mwenyewe
