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World Family is creating a space for dialogue and resource sharing between small scale farmers and all of us who value our environment and our communities. All over the world we have a common interest in opposing the take over of the food supply by agribusiness. People and the food we eat are too important to be turned into mere commodities. It is through a thousand small acts of solidarity that we can support and empower the small scale farmers to feed the world.
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Five key takeaways from the TTIP leak for food and farming systems
Posted on May 27, 2016 | No CommentsBy Karen Hansen-Kuhn Shefali Sharma Dr. Steve Suppan Sharon Anglin Treat May 2016 See more at: http://www.iatp.org/documents/five-key-takeaways-from-the-ttip-leak-for-food-and-farming-systems#sthash.aQ3777dm.vsxXOuio.dpuf Used under creative commons license from harrington_alison. The leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment more » -
New mega-treaty in the pipeline: what does RCEP mean for farmers’ seeds in Asia?
Posted on May 12, 2016 | No CommentsGRAIN | 9 March 2016 Signed in February 2016, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have a major impact on farmers’ control over seeds. The US-led agreement, which covers 12 more » -
The Protection of Farmers’ Rights and Food Sovereignty in Ghana
Posted on March 15, 2016 | No CommentsMarch 1, 2016 PRESS STATEMENT BY THE CSOs AND FARMERS’ PLATFORM ON THE PROTECTION OF FARMERS RIGHTS AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OF GHANA Read by Dede Bedu-Addo for the National President more » -
Palm Oil and GM Mustard: A Marriage Made in Hell
Posted on March 13, 2016 | No Commentsby Colin Todhunter March 11, 2016 The current drive to get genetically modified (GM) food crops into India is being spearheaded by GM mustard. However, the decision to sanction the more » -
Seven million hectares of forests have been lost in Argentina over the past 20 years
Posted on February 21, 2016 | No Comments19th February 2016 / Ruxandra Guidi Seven million hectares of forests have disappeared in Argentina in the past two decades, largely due to soy plantations. Between 1998 and 2006, the deforested surface of more » -
Plan to lift ban on GM foods ignites more resistance in Kenya
Posted on January 29, 2016 | No Comments“We want a government that listens to both sides in the GMO debate” – campaigners CoordinatorKenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBioC) standing second from right and other more » -
Call for mobilization: West African caravan for land, water and seeds
Posted on January 29, 2016 | No CommentsPublished: 22 Jan 2016 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25693 Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa | January 2016 The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West more » -
GM-free canola market “at risk”
Posted on October 21, 2015 | No CommentsJenne Brammer The West Australian, October 21, 2015 https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29861723/gm-free-canola-market-at-risk/ The GM-Free Farmers Group and Conservation Council of WA have warned that WA’s markets for non-GM canola are at risk after more » -
Cameroon’s changing weather linked to crop disease
Posted on October 1, 2015 | No Commentspanos.org.uk – archive Cameroon’s changing weather linked to crop disease Cocoyam, a staple food in Cameroon, is largely absent from the market this year after a blight destroyed most of more » -
What Happened to the Biggest Land Grab in Africa? Searching for ProSavana in Mozambique
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsBy Timothy A. Wise 20 December 2014 What if you threw a lavish party for foreign investors, and no one came? By all accounts, that is what’s happening in Mozambique’s more »