Doreen Akware

Former woman MP contestant-Kibuku District,lawyer and a human rights activist.
#Will make a cornerstone one day

[Doreen Akware @DoreenAkware]

The way food is produced shapes its safety, its nutrition, and its taste. A regional Bill is being discussed that could protect the farming methods that give you better food. Join us.
#EACAgroecologyBill
*11th August 2026 | 3:00PM EAT*
Join: https://t.co/LmA5RKPTQM

[Abenaitwe Jemimah @JemimahGift08]

Commercial intellectual property models were built for foreign industrial agriculture, not East Africa's smallholders. Stop forcing corporate frameworks on African soil! @AFSAfrica #SeedIsLife

[Witness Radio @witness_radio]

Dr. @davidkabanda of @CefrohtUg warned that the EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill, 2025 could undermine farmers’ rights and community seed systems if they are excluded from the regional framework during a discussion of this bill. Read more: https://t.co/hmzusWaQ5u
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[Seed Savers Network @Seedsavers_KE]

Public hearings on the #EACSeedBill are open this week. If you eat, you have a stake in this. Tell #EALA: recognise Farmer Managed Seed Systems, or send this Bill back to the drawing board. #SeedSovereignty #UnitedForLocalSeeds #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #EACSeedBill2025

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

The committee that will decide which seeds East Africa may plant has no farmer on it. Not one.
70–80% of our seed comes from farmers. Zero% of the decision does.
Who do you think should be in that room?
Let us meet in the comment section 👇

#EACSeedBill #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Abenaitwe Jemimah @JemimahGift08]

Corporate monopolies must not dominate East Africa's seed supply. We ask EALA representatives to halt #EACSeedBill2025 until local farmers are fully included. @RwandaRoam @ImbaragaO #StopUPOV #CefrohtUg #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Seed Savers Network @Seedsavers_KE]

Tomorrow we show up Coop Bank House, 18th Floor, Boardroom, State Department for EAC, Nairobi. We can't protect multinational companies while farmers remain poor for depending on these same seeds every planting season. The EAC Seed bill need a relook. @TanzaniaTabio @CefrohtUg

[Seed Savers Network @Seedsavers_KE]

#OurseedsOurfoodOurfuture. A seed law that sees only commercial seed systems is a law written for half of East Africa. Fix that half, or it isn't ready to pass. #SeedSovereignty #UnitedForLocalSeeds #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #OurSeedOurRight @CefrohtUg @witness_radio

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

You cannot protect food security by restricting the seed systems that actually feed East Africa. Most of our seed comes from farmers, not shops.

A Bill that ignores that isn't a seed law; it's a market plan.
#EACSeedBill2025 #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

Your @EA_Bunge representative is listening this week.

Ask them one question, does this Bill protect the farmer who saved the seed or the company selling it back to her?
#EACSeedBill2025 #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

Ugandan women are the main custodians of household nsumbi and seed stores.

The #EACSeedBill2025 gives corporate entities total control while offering rural women zero recognition. #SeedIsLife #ImproveTheEACSeedBill

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

Our grandmothers saved seed. Our mothers shared it. Communities survived hard seasons because of it.
No law should turn that into paperwork.

What seed has your family kept the longest?
Drop your answer in the comment section👇

#EACSeedBill #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

“If we are coming up at the East African level to promote the intellectual property of seed breeders and also only highlighting or certifying seeds which they only understand in the context of a framework of only plant breeders without farmers’ rights and community seed systems on board, then we are destined to a very precarious time ahead of us,” - Dr @davidkabanda the executive director of @CefrohtUg warned.

He insisted that true sustainability in agriculture and food systems is impossible if communities are excluded from decisions about the seeds and resources they rely on. @witness_radio
#SeedSovereignty #ProtectFarmersRights
#StopFarmerSlavery
Details: https://t.co/e6B9DMMGhF

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

Seed doesn't belong to a company. It belongs to households, and to the communities that shaped it over generations. That's not sentiment: it's Articles 20 and 21 of the African Charter.

The #EACSeedBill must recognise household, individual and community rights over seed. #ImproveTheSeedBill #SeedSovereignty

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

"Seed is life, not property." The @jumuiya EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill 2025 risks criminalizing the practice of farmers saving & sharing seed, a right recognized under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP).
We say NO. #StopEACSeedBill #SeedSovereignty

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

It is easy to tell people to “eat healthy,” but individual choices are shaped by the food environment around us. If unhealthy foods are cheaper, widely available and aggressively promoted, particularly to children and young people, making healthy choices becomes more difficult. Uganda’s Food and Nutrition Policy will therefore help create an environment where the healthier choice is also an easier and more accessible choice.@MAAIF_Uganda
#FOPWL #CefrohtUg

[Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights Ug @CefrohtUg]

Honored to receive a Recognition Award from @MinofHealthUG for our nutrition advocacy as Uganda officially launched its National #NutrientProfileModel.
This milestone is a huge step in tackling diet-related NCDs, but the journey continues, Uganda now looks forward to having Front-of-Pack Warning Label regulations.
#FOPWL

[Witness Radio @witness_radio]

Indigenous seeds and breeds have fed communities for years. Now they are under threat. This is why the 1st EA Indigenous Seed Conference 2026 matters. Join the Launch: Today at 10–11 a.m. EAT. Listen live on: https://t.co/qJv8b4OQ0Z #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #SeedSovereignty

[Witness Radio @witness_radio]

“Can we support communities to preserve, multiply and protect indigenous seeds?” — Nancy Mugimba, ESAFF Indigenous seeds are resilient and vital to our food systems. Tune in NOW and be part of the conversation. 🎙️ #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #SeedSovereignty

[Kevin Arende Oriri @arendeoriri]

Karibuni, let's talk about our food systems as a region and the urgent need to assert our sovereignty over them.

[Doreen Akware @DoreenAkware]

My sister @AdongSarah5 at it.

[Adong Sarah Superlady Black Sugar 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 @AdongSarah5]

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But Pat you will pay for this with 10 sticks of Micheal's Pork 😆