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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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Tainted Lands: Corruption in Large-Scale Land Deals
Posted on November 20, 2016 | No CommentsHow corruption is fuelling the global land grabbing crisis, which has seen millions of people displaced from their homes and farmland. Report / 15 Nov 2016 A surge in land more » -
Call for mobilization: West African caravan for land, water and seeds
Posted on January 29, 2016 | No CommentsPublished: 22 Jan 2016 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25693 Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa | January 2016 The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West 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 » -
Slideshow: Who’s behind the land grabs?
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 16 October 2012 | Presentations, Other publications A slide show about some of the people pursuing or supporting large farmland grabs around the world Every day there are more » -
Landgrabbing for Nigeria’s Rice Revolution, Peter Jopke
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsPremium Times Published: January 3,2014 The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms. The Memorandum of Understanding of 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 » -
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 » -
Africa Sitting On Sea Of Groundwater Reserves
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsBy Chris Wickham (Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:12am) (Reuters) – Huge reserves of underground water in some of the driest parts of Africa could provide a buffer against the more » -
Better understanding of cowpea weevil could improve storage
Posted on March 12, 2012 | No CommentsMillions of farmers in West and Central Africa could benefit from a method of storing cowpea, an African staple, after a study provided an important insight into how the method works. more » -
Let’s Discuss And Combine To Avert Jatropha Suffocation Of Countries Of The ‘South’ – Olaseinde Arigbede
Posted on February 11, 2012 | No CommentsFUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO AGROFUELS With special reference to JATROPHA – DIESEL 1. Whatever new development, technological or otherwise, that human beings have embarked upon with the primary/sole intention of maximising more »