Promoting Agro-Ecology as the viable solution for food security challenges
SWAGEN advocates for a transition to agroecology as the food production model in Africa as opposed to industrial agriculture. Agroecology is a people-centred system of sustainable agriculture, 
combining indigenous knowledge with cutting edge science, making the best use of nature to create healthy communities. SWAGEN supports small-scale food producers to build a sustainable, resilient, diverse, healthy, productive, and culturally appropriate food system for Africa.
Agroecology depends on time tested, safe natural biodiversity while Industrial Agriculture is the corporate-driven, monoculture-based agricultural systems that promotes use of chemical fertiliser. Where industrial agriculture aims to eliminate biodiversity, agroecology depends on it.
Agroecology recognises and respects the diversity of agricultural systems as opposed to industrial agriculture that is based on one-size-fits-all techno fix, agroecology provides local solutions to local problems as opposed to industrial agriculture which pollutes and degrades ecosystems, kills off pollinators, dries aquifers.
Agroecology regenerates, restores, and works with nature while industrial agriculture works against nature.
This transition requires policy change to support family farmers’ resistance of the corporate takeover of Africa Seed Systems and building farmer managed seed systems for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
The organization also champions the women’s fight for rights to land and to other productive resources.
The proponents of industrial agriculture are profit minded corporations that blind African Governments with huge donations. These present the greatest threat to agroecology
