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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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Cameroon Activists on Trial for Peaceful Protest against Wall Street Land Grabber
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsTake Action! 1. Make a donation toward legal fees and support local community struggle against Herakles Farms 2. Email Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its more » -
Kenya: Preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsJanuary 31, 2014 (Forest guards arrive in Kenya’s Embobut Forest in preparation for the evictions. © FPP) Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the more » -
Biotech lobby shuns consumers at “GMO consumer benefit” event
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No CommentsFebruary 5th 2014 Corporate Europe Observatory Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU Things can get quite surreal in Brussels’ EU quarter. On 22 January EuropaBio – the 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 » -
Greenpeace and the Oakland Institute: Cameroon, Herakles Land Lease Signature is an Alarming Development
Posted on December 12, 2013 | No CommentsNovember 26, 2013 Greenpeace Africa and the Oakland Institute are alarmed by the decision of the Cameroonian government to award US agribusiness company Herakles Farms a three-year provisional land lease more » -
After four years of illegality, Cameroon grants a temporary concession to SGSOC
Posted on December 12, 2013 | No CommentsYaounde November 25, 2013 The Head of State has signed today three decrees granting temporary concessions on agricultural land to SGSOC, Herakles Farms subsidiary in the Nguti, Toko and Mundemba more » -
Calabar Declaration
Posted on November 19, 2013 | No CommentsNov 18, 2013 We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and more » -
We are not backward. Our seeds and knowledge are crucial for our survival
Posted on November 13, 2013 | No CommentsVia Campesina <viacampesina@viacampesina.org> LVC Africa News, 13 Nov 2013 (Harare, November 13, 2013) Seed diversity, created by peasants over centuries, is in danger of disappearing and the diversity of seeds 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 » -
Monsanto failed SA GM Maize pushed into rest of Africa
Posted on October 24, 2013 | No CommentsToday the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) released a new report ‘Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure more »