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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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How to Save Family Farms for the Future: COCA Shows the Way
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsCaerhys Organic Community Agriculture (COCA): members have this spectacular view of the Pembrokeshire coast from the vegetable field. CSA? Community Supported Agriculture? What does it mean exactly? I have a more » -
Grain Reserves and the Food Price Crisis: Selected Writings from 2008–2012
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsAs global rates of hunger continue to climb, food prices remain high and unstable, and climate change disrupts agricultural production, the age-old idea of food reserves is making a comeback. more » -
Bill Gates Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit versus Humanity
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsBy Dr Mercola July 31 2012 A recent commentary in Education Week takes a fresh look at the Gates Foundation’s philanthropy. The money it spends on all kinds of projects around more » -
‘Agent Orange’ tainted GM maize give green light in South Africa
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 1 CommentThe African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is deeply dismayed and shocked that the GMO decision-making body has given the green light for the importation of Dow Chemical’s highly controversial 2,4-D 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 » -
MONSANTO AND SYNGENTA: FUNDING AGRA FOR AFRICA?
Posted on June 15, 2012 | 1 CommentBy Anne Outwarer for Daily News Tanzania, on 3rd June 2012 (http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/columnists/columnists/5819-monsanto-and-syngenta-funding-agra-for-africa) In recent weeks we have been examining genetically engineered food plants. We have seen that they more » -
THE NEW ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: NOTHING NEW ABOUT IGNORING AFRICA’S FARMERS
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Eric Giminez for Huffington Post, 23.05.2012. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/africa-food-security_b_1537279.html) President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he is actually a liberal after all. First he not-so-hastily follows more » -
Vandals! No, not protesters trashing crops but the GM lobby still trying to force increasingly discredited Frankenstein Food down our throats
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Joanna Blythman Genetic modification was supposed to be the ground-breaking science of the future. Its magic wand would feed the world and make toxic pesticides redundant. But, more » -
Britain To Help African Food Supply Problems
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsBritain will improve food supply and farming across Africa to help pull 50 million people out of chronic poverty over the next ten years in conjunction with the private 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 »