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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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ACT NOW: US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced Relocations for Land Grabs
Posted on February 11, 2012 | 1 CommentSign the petition to President Barack Obama and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah today Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make land available for foreign more » -
UK alerts: No to subsidies for destructive biomass and biofuel electricity
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsPlease click here to take part in two simultaneous email alerts and tell the government and your MP that renewable energy support should go to clean, sustainable real renewables, such more » -
Dr. Vandana Shiva and Feminist Theory
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsJuly 4, 2009 by momentumfemininum by Rachel Brinker In Hindi, chipko means, “to embrace.” The Chipko Movement in India became one of the most successful environmental activism struggles in more » -
Going to seed
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsHybrid and genetically-modified seeds may create more problems than they solve. Nepali Times (http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2011/11/04/Nation/18676) FROM ISSUE #577 (04 NOV 2011 – 10 NOV 2011) A US-government supported pilot project to more » -
Farmer to Farmer – Documentary
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsFrom GM Freeze (http://www.gmfreeze.org/why-freeze/farmer-farmer-truth-about-gm-crops/) Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for more » -
Big 6 agrochemical companies indicted for crimes against humanity
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsKeith Tyrell (Pesticide Action Network UK), 16th November 2011 From 3-6th December 2011, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will convene in Bangalore, India, to hear cases brought against six more » -
UK firm’s failed biofuel dream wrecks lives of Tanzania villagers
Posted on November 17, 2011 | No CommentsThe collapse of Sun Biofuels has left hundreds of Tanzanians landless, jobless, and in despair for the future http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/30/africa-poor-west-biofuel-betrayal Damian Carrington in Tanzania The Observer, Sunday 30 October 2011 more » -
How British supermarkets are degrading UK Agriculture
Posted on November 10, 2011 | No CommentsHow British supermarkets are degrading UK Agriculture by Robert Willis 10th November 2011 The relationship between supermarket and supplier during the economic recession is deteriorating at an increasing rate more » -
![Drought tolerant GM corn will not feed the world Friday, 13 May 2011 GeneWatch, 12 May 2011 http://genewatch.org/article.shtml?als[cid]=567368&als[itemid]=568412 GeneWatch UK today responded to <a href="https://worldfamilyonline.org/drought-tolerant-gm-corn-will-not-feed-the-world/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>](http://worldfamilyonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Drought-tolerant-GM-corn-will-not-feed-the-world-115x115.jpg "Drought tolerant GM corn will not feed the world")
Drought tolerant GM corn will not feed the world
Posted on August 13, 2011 | No CommentsDrought tolerant GM corn will not feed the world Friday, 13 May 2011 GeneWatch, 12 May 2011 http://genewatch.org/article.shtml?als[cid]=567368&als[itemid]=568412 GeneWatch UK today responded to more » -
Ugandan farmer: ‘My land gave me everything. Now I’m one of the poorest’
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsLand tenure in Uganda is a subject of much dispute, and last year’s farming evictions have left 20,000 homeless Source: guardian.co.uk more »