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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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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 » -
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 » -
Golden Rice: Scientific Realities
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No CommentsGolden Rice is not a realistic solution to the problem of malnutrition and could well create further serious problems for the people who grow and eat it. more » -
ENSSER Comments on the retraction of the Séralini et al. 2012 study
Posted on November 30, 2013 | No CommentsOpen letter to A. Wallace Hayes, editor of Food & Chemical Toxicology ENSSER (European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility), 30 Nov 2013 Journal’s retraction of rat feeding more » -
Could mob grazing boost soil health and return cattle to East Anglia?
Posted on November 22, 2013 | No Comments22 November 2013 Mob grazing is a school of ‘natural farming’ that seeks to mimic the movements of grazing plains animals on a farm 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 » -
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 » -
Britain’s new ‘peasants’ down on the farm
Posted on June 19, 2013 | No CommentsA determined generation of young smallholders hope to reclaim the British countryside from the grip of corporate food giants Claire Provost and John Vidal The Observer Sunday 16 June more »