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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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Corporations replace peasants as the “vanguard” of China’s new food security agenda
Posted on November 3, 2015 | No CommentsGRAIN | 03 November 2015 | Against the grain The past few years have been horrible for China’s small dairy farmers. Demand for domestic production has slumped because of milk 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 » -
Millionaire investors buying up farm lands
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsMillionaire investors buying up farm lands By Daniel Essieton The National | 11 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25299 Politicians and business executives on a visit to the Shonga dairy farm more » -
Africa: GMOs and New Opium War in Africa
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsThe Star (Nairobi) By Oduor Ong’we 31 August 2015 Opium wars fought between Britain and China in the 19th century, are among the best-known and most studied conflicts in history. more » -
Bringing a Superfood Down to Earth
Posted on August 30, 2015 | No CommentsAugust 26, 2015 post by Glenn Stone, PhD, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences Genetically modified (GM) crops are mostly planted on large industrialized farms (mainly in more » -
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
Posted on July 6, 2014 | No CommentsNafeez Ahmed 3 July 2014 theguardian.com Plight of Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South UN’s REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local more » -
Food waste reduction could help feed world’s starving
Posted on July 3, 2014 | No CommentsBy Caroline HepkerBBC World Business Report 3rd July 2014 Continue reading the main story Related Stories Europe’s leftover food online trend ‘End Bogof deals’ to cut food waste “If food more » -
Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate
Posted on July 1, 2014 | No CommentsRhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 29, 2014 Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0629-indonesia-highest-deforestation-rate.html#0RhrkXOzyCvzqWRY.99 Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, topping even Brazil which has more than five times 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 »