On July 29th-30th, has been held in Lilongwe, Malawi, several meetings aimed at coordinating the preparation of the IYFF Africa Continental Meeting, planned to take place in the last part of 2010.

The preparatory committee was composed of: The new President of ROPPA -Mr. Djibo Bagna-, the Secretary General of PELUM Regional -Mrs. Mari Jo Kakinda-, the Secretary General of INADES Formation -Mr. Francis Ngang-, the representative of PELUM Malawi -Ulemu Muthali-, the new WRF Africa Desk Coordinator -Mr. Jaime Balaguer- and the IYFF Campaign Coordinator -Mr. José Antonio Osaba-.

This working group has also had the opportunity of meeting some representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Agriculture and Food Security of Malawi, and with the local small farmers´ association NASFAM, who participated also in the last ministerial meeting.

We will inform soon about the results of this meetings.