{"id":45,"date":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/our-work\/eac-agroecology-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:05:10","slug":"eac-agroecology-bill","status":"publish","type":"cefroht_file","link":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/?cefroht_file=eac-agroecology-bill","title":{"rendered":"The EAC Agroecology Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no law anywhere in East Africa that treats agroecology as the default rather than the alternative. The EAC Agroecology Bill would be the first.<\/p>\n<p>It does three things. It protects farmer managed seed systems, so that saving and exchanging seed remains lawful. It sets limits on the agrochemicals that have been quietly banned in the countries that export them to us. And it obliges member states to direct agricultural extension budgets toward regenerative practice rather than input subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill was drafted with the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa and regional civil society, then carried through five national consultations before it went anywhere near a committee room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no law anywhere in East Africa that treats agroecology as the default rather than the alternative. The EAC Agroecology Bill would be the first. It does three things. It protects farmer managed seed systems, so that saving and exchanging seed remains lawful. It sets limits on the agrochemicals that have been quietly banned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":20,"template":"","cefroht_theme":[15],"class_list":["post-45","cefroht_file","type-cefroht_file","status-publish","hentry","cefroht_theme-agroecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/cefroht_file"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cefroht_file\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cefroht_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cefroht.ifancy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcefroht_theme&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}