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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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New Report: Putting the Cartel before the Horse…and Farm, Seeds, Soil, Peasants
Posted on September 12, 2013 | No CommentsWho Will Control Agricultural Inputs? News Release – September 9th, 2013 ETC Group publishes its 111th Communiqué today. The 40-page report – “Putting the more » -
African Food Sovereignty under attack by corporate interests
Posted on August 19, 2013 | No CommentsAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa 16 August 2013 Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with members in 50 African countries more » -
Britain’s new ‘peasants’ down on the farm
Posted on June 19, 2013 | No CommentsA determined generation of young smallholders hope to reclaim the British countryside from the grip of corporate food giants Claire Provost and John Vidal The Observer Sunday 16 June more » -
African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?
Posted on June 19, 2013 | No CommentsReport June 2013 EcoNexus Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher Overview This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in more » -
A new report on Land Grabbing in Europe
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments17th of April 2013 – International Day of Peasant struggles New report argues that: Land concentration and land grabbing are occurring and reaching blatant levels in Europe Land concentration and more » -
New research shows that some of the poorest developing countries are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsInstitute of Development Studies News Release, Thursday 11th April 2013 According to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and more » -
NEW SEED LEGISLATION SPELLS DISASTER FOR SMALL FARMERS IN AFRICA
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No CommentsCivil society organisations from the SADC region, and around the world have condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling more » -
Chinese fishing fleet in African waters reports 9% of catch to UN
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsResearchers say a new way to estimate the size and value of catches shows the extent of looting of Africa http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/03/chinese-fishing-fleet-african-catch John Vidal, environment editor, guardian.co.uk, 3 April 2013 The more » -
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
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Grain Reserves and the Food Price Crisis: Selected Writings from 2008–2012
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsAs global rates of hunger continue to climb, food prices remain high and unstable, and climate change disrupts agricultural production, the age-old idea of food reserves is making a comeback. more »