The latest from the Barefoot Guide
​Agroecology Series

My Food is African
​Vol II
(plus a booklet of Tools
​for Citizen Action)

How Citizens Are Reclaiming
African Food Systems

By the AFSA Barefoot Guide Writer’s Collective
We invite you on a journey through the campaigns, markets, kitchens and organising spaces where Africans are reclaiming their food systems and challenging corporate control.

Many of you working for food sovereignty face questions about strategy, about building power, about winning real change. Corporate interests have shaped much of the advice available to movements. This Guide emerges from African organising experience.

This Barefoot Guide is free to download and offered with solidarity to every organiser, every campaign and every movement working for food sovereignty in Africa (and beyond).

Organising effectively comes from studying real campaigns and adapting what's worked in different contexts. The stories and perspectives in this Guide show what movements across Africa have learned through direct experience.

In addition to the Barefoot Guide you can download a booklet for Tools for Citizen Action. 

​​Each tool addresses a specific challenge organisers face. How do you understand your local food system before trying to change it?How do you tell stories that inspire action rather than just inform? How do you design campaigns that learn and adapt? How do you mobilise resources without complete dependence on external donors?​
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This Guide has been produced by 
​​The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a broad-based alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa.

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