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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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Defending life! Jairo Restrepo, organic revolutionary
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsJuanFran Lopez / Ragmans Lane Farm 27th July 2015 “Every single day humanity is related to soil. Our stomach does not exist without being tied to the soil – without more » -
Africa: GMOs and New Opium War in Africa
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsThe Star (Nairobi) By Oduor Ong’we 31 August 2015 Opium wars fought between Britain and China in the 19th century, are among the best-known and most studied conflicts in history. more » -
California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto’s Roundup ‘Carcinogenic’
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsBy Sam Levin East Bay Express September 5, 2015 The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main more » -
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Posted on September 2, 2015 | 1 CommentJonathan R. Latham, PhD August 31, 2015 By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically more » -
AFAP in Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania
Posted on August 31, 2015 | No CommentsFrom African Centre for Biodiversity, 31.8.15 The chemical fertiliser push in Africa and its implications for smallholder farmers is not receiving enough attention in current discourses concerning Green Revolution policies more » -
Bringing a Superfood Down to Earth
Posted on August 30, 2015 | No CommentsAugust 26, 2015 post by Glenn Stone, PhD, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences Genetically modified (GM) crops are mostly planted on large industrialized farms (mainly in more » -
Pig antibiotic alarm
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsSaturday 11 April 2015 http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/pig-antibiotic-alarm.26777021 NEW RESEARCH from Denmark has shown conventional pigs were treated with 10 times more doses of antibiotics than organic pigs. The statistics released by the more » -
Ethiopians Break their Silence Against Government Repression and Forced Displacement
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsOakland Institute April 14, 2015 New Landmark Testimony: “We Say the Land is Not Yours” Oakland, CA – We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced more » -
Ethiopian farmer takes UK to court over ‘brutal’ resettlement policy
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsLegal battle launched after man claims he was evicted from his farm and beaten under villagisation scheme funded by UK aid Annie Kelly A traditional homestead in Gambella, the remote more » -
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
Posted on July 6, 2014 | No CommentsNafeez Ahmed 3 July 2014 theguardian.com Plight of Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South UN’s REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local more »