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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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Tainted Lands: Corruption in Large-Scale Land Deals
Posted on November 20, 2016 | No CommentsHow corruption is fuelling the global land grabbing crisis, which has seen millions of people displaced from their homes and farmland. Report / 15 Nov 2016 A surge in land more » -
German toxicologist accuses EU authorities of scientific fraud over glyphosate link with cancer
Posted on November 8, 2016 | No CommentsGM Watch Published: 03 November 2016 Dr Peter Clausing says the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) more » -
EU Commission says plants and animals derived from conventional breeding are non-patentable
Posted on November 4, 2016 | No CommentsGM Watch 4th October 2016 European governments need to ensure new rules of interpretation become legally binding In a long-awaited statement, the EU Commission has taken the view that plants more » -
MPs sound alarm on neglected soils
Posted on June 2, 2016 | No CommentsBy Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst June 2nd 2016 Ministers are failing to protect Britain’s soils on farmland and in cities, MPs say. The Commons Environmental Audit Committee warns that more » -
Five key takeaways from the TTIP leak for food and farming systems
Posted on May 27, 2016 | No CommentsBy Karen Hansen-Kuhn Shefali Sharma Dr. Steve Suppan Sharon Anglin Treat May 2016 See more at: http://www.iatp.org/documents/five-key-takeaways-from-the-ttip-leak-for-food-and-farming-systems#sthash.aQ3777dm.vsxXOuio.dpuf Used under creative commons license from harrington_alison. The leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment more » -
New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
Posted on May 18, 2016 | No CommentsSharon Lerner May 17 2016 John Sanders worked in the orange and grapefruit groves in Redlands, California, for more than 30 years. First as a ranch hand, then as a more » -
UN/WHO panel in conflict of interest row over glyphosate cancer risk
Posted on May 18, 2016 | No CommentsArthur Neslen Tuesday 17 May 2016 Chairman of UN’s joint meeting on pesticide residues co-runs scientific institute which received donation from Monsanto, which uses glyphosate. Glyphosate is a core ingredient 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 » -
European Parliament votes to ban most uses of glyphosate
Posted on April 15, 2016 | No CommentsOliver Tickell 13th April 2016 The EU Parliament has responded to the health concerns of millions by calling on the Commission to severely restrict permitted uses of the toxic more » -
‘Too Much Money’: No Land – GVL Planning Liberia Bow
Posted on March 13, 2016 | No CommentsWritten by Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com Published: 08 March 2016 “The owner and shareholders are pissed with Liberian team. More than US$290 million spent since 2010, more »