A 3-day meeting to promote agroecology transition in West Africa is underway in Djimini; a small village in the Kolda region of Southern Senegal. 

The meeting organized by the West African Committee for Peasant seeds (COASP) and The Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Peasant Seeds (ASPSP) seeks to look into the facilitation of appropriate policies in the sub-region to promote agrobiodiversity and maintain agro ecological farming systems. 

The gathering also hopes to unify farmers in West Africa to have one voice. 

WADR’s Veronic Njie is at the meeting and spoke to Lamin Beyai president of the Association for the Promotion of Peasant Seeds (ASPSP)