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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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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 » -
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 » -
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 » -
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 » -
Could mob grazing boost soil health and return cattle to East Anglia?
Posted on November 22, 2013 | No Comments22 November 2013 Mob grazing is a school of ‘natural farming’ that seeks to mimic the movements of grazing plains animals on a farm 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 » -
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 »