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Report from SADC regional farmer speak out on farm input subsidy programmes

10 September 2018

Publication

Report

Agroecology

Corporate Expansion

Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) jointly hosted a meeting of farmers and civil society organisations (CSOs) in August 2018 to share views and experiences on farm input subsidy programmes (FISPs) and public sector support for agroecology in the region.

Farm input subsidy programme (FISP) info pamphlet

13 August 2018

Fact sheet

Publication

Training Material

Corporate Expansion

This pamphlet offers a quick background on the FISPs and the key issues and concerns. It explains what FISPs are, their aims, why the FISPs are failing to meet their objectives, how they promote small-scale farmer dependency, and ways of transitioning out of FISPs towards more appropriate forms of smallholder farmer support.