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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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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 » -
Bhutan looks to become world’s first 100% organic country
Posted on October 24, 2013 | No CommentsLotto Zam, a Bhutanese woman farmer, sells tomatoes and other produce at a market in Shaba, Bhutan. By Doreen Fiedler Bhutan is renowned for espousing more » -
The GM food debate is not an issue of science versus anti-science but about whether science serves the public good or corporate interests.
Posted on September 23, 2013 | No CommentsBioethics, Scientific Research and the GMO Debate Chaumtoli Huq Law at the Margins, September 22 2013 http://www.lawatthemargins.com/bioethics-scientific-research-and-the-gmo-debate/ Professor Huq teaches Legal Practice at New York more » -
400,000 people petition parliament panel to withdraw BRAI Bill
Posted on August 24, 2013 | 1 CommentAuthor: Jyotika Sood Aug 24, 2013 http://www.downtoearth.org.in Deadline for public feedback on biotechnology Bill expires August 25 The petitions were handed over to chairperson more » -
Of seed sovereignty and a ‘genetically’ modified Bill
Posted on August 21, 2013 | No CommentsChethan Kumar, Bangalore, Aug 19, 2013, DHNS : Celebrating the 67th year of Independence, India is slowly losing her seed sovereignty, even as environmentalists and farmers’ organisations fight in vain. 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 » -
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 » -
India’s rice revolution
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsJohn Vidal in Bihar, India - The Observer, Saturday 16 February 2013 In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with more » -
GM Crops Are No Way Forward
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsSatyarat Chaturvedi The Hindu, August 24 2012 Food security is not about production alone; it is also about bio-safety, and access to food for the poorest We are predominantly an more »