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

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

Public hearings on the #EACSeedBill are open this week. If you eat, you have a stake in this.
Tell @EA_Bunge to 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]

If a farmer can't save seed, she buys it.
Every season. Forever. That cost doesn't stop at her farm, it lands at the market and on your plate.

#ImproveTheSeedBill #EACSeedBill2025

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

A seed law isn't an agriculture policy. It's a household budget policy. When a family can no longer save seed, that family buys seed every season, forever. In East Africa, that's most homes.

The #EACSeedBill2025 must protect household seed rights, not price them out.
#ImproveTheEACSeedBill

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

"If I want to sell, save, or exchange seed, I must not be locked out." - Dr. @davidkabanda ED @CefrohtUg

He emphasizes that the proposed EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill 2025 must protect the rights of grassroots farmers across East Africa.

#MorningAtNTV #ImproveTheEACSeedBill #FoodSovereignty

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

Day 2 of the #EACSeedBill public hearings is underway!

If you eat, you have a stake in this. The message to @EA_Bunge remains clear, recognise Farmer Managed Seed Systems, or send this Bill back to the drawing board.

Tag your #EALA representative in the comment section.
#SeedSovereignty #UnitedForLocalSeeds #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #EACSeedBill2025 #ImproveTheEACSeedBill

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

Public consultations on the EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill 2025 are underway in Uganda.

Farmers, CSOs, researchers, and policymakers are coming together to debate how regional rules will impact seed access and farmer rights.

#ImproveTheSeedBill #EACSeedBill2025 #SeedSovereignty #FoodSecurity #Uganda

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

As public hearings on the EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill advance, one priority remains non-negotiable, protecting smallholder farmers' rights to access, save, and exchange seed. #EACSeedBill2025

#SeedSovereignty #ImproveTheEACSeedBill #FoodSecurity

[Ferdinand MUSIKA @Ferdcurry34]

To policy makers shaping the EAC Seed Bill: protect local seed saving! Empower breeders who create high-yielding, continuous seeds that farmers can save over and over. @CefrohtUG #UnitedForLocalSeeds #SeedSovereignty #StopUPOV #IndigenousSeedsEA2026 #ImproveTheSeedBill

[Tom Woodworth @TomWodeya]

.Buying foreign commercial seeds every single season drains wealth from our rural communities. True African independence begins with seed sovereignty on our own land. @BIBA_Kenya #SeedSovereignty #UnitedForLocalSeeds. #ImproveTheEACSeedBill

[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
Photo: baobab

[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