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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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Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
Posted on May 17, 2016 | No Commentsby Jonathan Latham, PhD May 16, 2016 https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/unsafe-at-any-dose-diagnosing-chemical-safety-failures-from-ddt-to-bpa/ Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells more » -
New mega-treaty in the pipeline: what does RCEP mean for farmers’ seeds in Asia?
Posted on May 12, 2016 | No CommentsGRAIN | 9 March 2016 Signed in February 2016, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have a major impact on farmers’ control over seeds. The US-led agreement, which covers 12 more » -
What do the TTIP leaks say about GMOs?
Posted on May 12, 2016 | No CommentsGabriela Vázquez of the Spain-based group Ecologistas en Acción explains what could happen in the GMO arena, based on the TTIP documents released so far, if the trade deal passes more » -
Peeling back the curtain on Monsanto
Posted on May 12, 2016 | No CommentsPaul Thacker Huffington Post, 10 May 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-thacker/peeling-back-the-curtain-on-monsanto_b_9867902.html For nearly 30 years, Carey Gillam has worked as a business reporter covering corporate America, the last 17 of those with Reuters, more » -
Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Posted on March 14, 2016 | No CommentsBy Almuth Ernsting Published today (Mon 14th March) by Independent Science News Biofuels consumed today are usually ethanol made from the sugar in sugar cane (or sugar beet) or they more » -
Palm Oil and GM Mustard: A Marriage Made in Hell
Posted on March 13, 2016 | No Commentsby Colin Todhunter March 11, 2016 The current drive to get genetically modified (GM) food crops into India is being spearheaded by GM mustard. However, the decision to sanction the more » -
Corporations replace peasants as the “vanguard” of China’s new food security agenda
Posted on November 3, 2015 | No CommentsGRAIN | 03 November 2015 | Against the grain The past few years have been horrible for China’s small dairy farmers. Demand for domestic production has slumped because of milk more » -
The end of third-party advocacy for GMOs?
Posted on October 17, 2015 | No CommentsAs freedom of information requests reveal ostensibly independent GMO proponents to be working hand-in-hand with the GMO industry, Claire Robinson asks if the misinformation game is finally over GM Watch, more » -
Will Africa feed China?
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsWill Africa feed China? By Deborah Brautigam Published: 02 Sep 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25302 In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, the author discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development 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 »