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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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Pesticide approvals misleading – and Roundup most toxic of 9 pesticides tested
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No CommentsPesticide formulations as sold and used are up to 1000 times more toxic than the isolated substance that is tested and evaluated for safety, and Roundup is more » -
“Stop GMOs”: Russian scientists urge 10-year ban on genetically modified products
Posted on December 19, 2013 | No CommentsRussia Today, December 16, 2013 http://rt.com/news/gmo-ban-russian-scientists-293/ Russian scientists say there have not been enough studies on GMOs’ influence on human health to allow for a more » -
Giving With One Hand and Taking With Two: A Critique of Agra’s African Agriculture Status Report 2013
Posted on December 18, 2013 | No CommentsAfrican Centre for Biosafety 18 November 2013 The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released a comprehensive critique of a report published by the African Alliance for a Green Revolution more » -
Venezuela and the Battle Against Transgenic Seeds
Posted on December 13, 2013 | No CommentsBy: Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University and William Camacaro, MFA, Member of the Bolivarian Circle more » -
ENSSER Comments on the retraction of the Séralini et al. 2012 study
Posted on November 30, 2013 | No CommentsOpen letter to A. Wallace Hayes, editor of Food & Chemical Toxicology ENSSER (European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility), 30 Nov 2013 Journal’s retraction of rat feeding more » -
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
Posted on November 22, 2013 | No CommentsBy JIM ROBBINS November 22, 2013 Micah Lidberg ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the more » -
Spread of genetically engineered plants out of control in many countries
Posted on November 13, 2013 | No CommentsTest Biotech 12 November 2013 Contamination in biodiversity will burden following generations Today Testbiotech published the first global overview showing how genetically engineered plants such as more » -
European Scientists Ask for GMO Research
Posted on November 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn its first week online, more than 200 scientists, physicians and legal experts signed the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility’s group statement “No scientific consensus on more » -
GeneWatch UK PR: GeneWatch warns of conflicts-of-interest in parliament on GM crops
Posted on October 28, 2013 | No CommentsFriday 4th January 2013 GeneWatch UK warned today that All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture is being used by Monsanto and other GM companies to lobby more » -
Small Farms, Not Monsanto, Are Key to Global Food Security
Posted on October 24, 2013 | No CommentsUnion of Concerned Scientists – The Equation, a blog on independent science + practical solutions Doug Gurian-Sherman October 17, 2013 Data from 15 Kenyan farmers over a period of 6 more »