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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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French government moves to reintroduce ban on GM crops
Posted on February 22, 2014 | No CommentsThursday 20 February 2014 The French government has announced that it intends to maintain a moratorium on cultivation of genetically modified crops on French territory, despite the opposition of legislators more » -
Down on the Farm
Posted on February 18, 2014 | No CommentsOakland Institiute 18th February 2014 The first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale. An estimated 500 million acres, an area eight more » -
Huge Row Over GMOs As Thousands Protest In Accra
Posted on February 15, 2014 | No CommentsLawrence Lamptey Date of publication at Tlaxcala: 15/02/2014 The Coalition For Farmers Rights And Advocacy Against GMOs (COFAM) a grass-roots movement of farmers, labour unions, religious, political and civil society organizations more » -
EU ministers ask Commission to withdraw GMO proposal in open letter
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsEuractiv.com, 13 Feb 2014 http://www.euractiv.com/cap/eu-ministers-ask-commission-with-news-533486 Twelve EU ministers have sent an open letter to the health commissioner, Tonio Borg, pressuring the Commission to withdraw its proposal to approve the genetically 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 » -
Cameroon Activists on Trial for Peaceful Protest against Wall Street Land Grabber
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsTake Action! 1. Make a donation toward legal fees and support local community struggle against Herakles Farms 2. Email Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its more » -
Kenya: Preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsJanuary 31, 2014 (Forest guards arrive in Kenya’s Embobut Forest in preparation for the evictions. © FPP) Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the more » -
Biotech lobby shuns consumers at “GMO consumer benefit” event
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No CommentsFebruary 5th 2014 Corporate Europe Observatory Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU Things can get quite surreal in Brussels’ EU quarter. On 22 January EuropaBio – the more » -
Golden Rice: Myth, not Miracle
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No Commentson 12 January 2014 By Dr Vandana Shiva “You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that has created it.” - Einstein The Problem 1 billion more »