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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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The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
Posted on November 22, 2013 | No CommentsBy JIM ROBBINS November 22, 2013 Micah Lidberg ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the 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 » -
We are not backward. Our seeds and knowledge are crucial for our survival
Posted on November 13, 2013 | No CommentsVia Campesina <viacampesina@viacampesina.org> LVC Africa News, 13 Nov 2013 (Harare, November 13, 2013) Seed diversity, created by peasants over centuries, is in danger of disappearing and the diversity of seeds more » -
There is no Plan Bee for when we run out of pollinators
Posted on November 10, 2013 | No CommentsBy Dave Goulson November 8, 2013 We could not have tried harder to wipe out the invaluable pollinator, writes Dave Goulson @Reuters Biologists have been 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 » -
Former Monsanto employee put in charge of GMO papers at journal
Posted on October 28, 2013 | No CommentsNew article exposes industry attempts to control scientific publishing Independent Science News and Earth Open Source, 20 May 2013 Just months after a study was published showing that two Monsanto products, more » -
GeneWatch UK PR: GeneWatch warns of conflicts-of-interest in parliament on GM crops
Posted on October 28, 2013 | No CommentsFriday 4th January 2013 GeneWatch UK warned today that All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture is being used by Monsanto and other GM companies to lobby more » -
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 » -
Monsanto failed SA GM Maize pushed into rest of Africa
Posted on October 24, 2013 | No CommentsToday the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) released a new report ‘Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure more »