WHAT ARE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

During the past 30 years SPP has been able to register and demonstrate many achievements that contributed towards the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of men and women (particularly in rural areas):

• Instrumental in the mobilisation of communities in the Namaqualand district which resulted in the transfer of 400 000 hectares of land and tenure reform.
• Involved in the mobilisation of the community of Elandskloof that resulted in land transfer to community in one of the first restitution claims settled in 1996.
• Assisted more than 100 local organisations/ farmers association through social sand development practice to gain access to private and municipal commonage land in the Northern and Western Cape.
• In 2008 were able to mobilize over 800 rural farm dwellers and emerging farmers, in partnership with other civil society partners, to march against the slow pace of land agrarian reform.
• Supported and built the Right to Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC), a movement bringing together more than 1500 landless, farm workers / dwellers, small-scale farmers and rural dwellers all struggling for land, water and food sovereignty.
• Contributed towards women’s active participation in leadership, in policy articulation and in community mobilisation and networks towards greater inclusion in changing the patriarchal and male-dominated nature of movements and local initiatives through women directed spaces, workshops, exchanges and organising.
• Contributed towards about 300 young people’s understanding of agrarian reform and stimulating them taking up issues of land, food and social justice.
• Supported and enhanced local initiatives and organisations  to lead their own struggles and campaigns in various forms capable of articulating their own interests; in over 40 communities, over two provinces and 12 municipal areas
• Placed agroecology and food sovereignty in the national domain as an alternative to the dominant industrial agriculture model through national dialogues & workshops attended by over 40 different organisations from South Africa, Brazil, India, Zimbabwe & Ethiopia.
• Fostered strategic partnerships and alliances with organisations working with land and agrarian reform issues both nationally and internationally
• Contributed to research and appropriate advocacy strategies  towards policy changes and in relation to land and agrarian reform aimed at all spheres of government