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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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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 » -
Food waste reduction could help feed world’s starving
Posted on July 3, 2014 | No CommentsBy Caroline HepkerBBC World Business Report 3rd July 2014 Continue reading the main story Related Stories Europe’s leftover food online trend ‘End Bogof deals’ to cut food waste “If food more » -
Picking up the Pieces from a Failed Land Grab Project in Tanzania
Posted on July 1, 2014 | No CommentsAs negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project. Timothy A. more » -
Down on the Farm
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsThe first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale. An estimated 500 more » -
2,4-D soy: waging war on peasants
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 26 May 2014 | Against the grain Global attempts by Dow AgroSciences to gain approval for new genetically-modified soybean varieties resistant more » -
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 28 May 2014 | Reports Alcides Raméon Ramírez, a member of one of 200 peasant families fighting to defend their land in Curuguaty, more » -
USA finally considering action over neonicotinoids, spurred on by doubts as to whether they actually work
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsA blog by Prof Dave Goulson, University of Sussex. 2nd June 2014 Two US Congressmen have launched a bill to suspend uses of neonicotinoid insecticides in the US, following the more » -
Deceitful compromise clears the way for GMO crops in Europe
Posted on May 31, 2014 | No CommentsAn unholy alliance of pro- and anti-GMO countries have struck a deal that will sweep away the obstacles to genetically engineered crops in the EU, writes Lawrence Woodward. 31st May more »