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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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Picking up the Pieces from a Failed Land Grab Project in Tanzania
Posted on July 1, 2014 | No CommentsAs negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project. Timothy A. more » -
Warrior queens battle for Africa’s food future
Posted on June 4, 2014 | No CommentsJune 3, 2014 — The scale of foreign agribusiness on African soil could soon change how what we eat is grown, but also what we eat. The livelihoods of small-scale farmers more » -
2,4-D soy: waging war on peasants
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 26 May 2014 | Against the grain Global attempts by Dow AgroSciences to gain approval for new genetically-modified soybean varieties resistant more » -
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 28 May 2014 | Reports Alcides Raméon Ramírez, a member of one of 200 peasant families fighting to defend their land in Curuguaty, more » -
Weaponized Agriculture — Tom Mysiewicz
Posted on May 27, 2014 | No CommentsTom Mysiewicz is a biotechnologist. In this article he shares with us his conclusions about the dangers of GMO crops. GMO CROPS… BOON TO HUMANITY OR RECKLESS SCIENCE? By Tom more » -
Below the belt, below the breadline – South Africa’s inequitable and GM contaminated bread industry
Posted on May 21, 2014 | No CommentsPress Release from the African Centre for Biosafety 21st May 2014 The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today brought into sharp focus the white bread industry in South Africa more » -
AFSA condemns sleight of hand moves by ARIPO to join UPOV 1991, bypass national laws
Posted on April 5, 2014 | No CommentsTWN IP /Agricultural Info 04 April 2014 PRESS RELEASE FROM ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA AFSA STRONGLY CONDEMNS SLEIGHT OF HAND MOVES BY ARIPO TO JOIN UPOV 1991, BYPASS more » -
Huge Row Over GMOs As Thousands Protest In Accra
Posted on February 15, 2014 | No CommentsLawrence Lamptey Date of publication at Tlaxcala: 15/02/2014 The Coalition For Farmers Rights And Advocacy Against GMOs (COFAM) a grass-roots movement of farmers, labour unions, religious, political and civil society organizations more » -
Slideshow: Who’s behind the land grabs?
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 16 October 2012 | Presentations, Other publications A slide show about some of the people pursuing or supporting large farmland grabs around the world Every day there are more » -
Landgrabbing for Nigeria’s Rice Revolution, Peter Jopke
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsPremium Times Published: January 3,2014 The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms. The Memorandum of Understanding of more »