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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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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 » -
Seven million hectares of forests have been lost in Argentina over the past 20 years
Posted on February 21, 2016 | No Comments19th February 2016 / Ruxandra Guidi Seven million hectares of forests have disappeared in Argentina in the past two decades, largely due to soy plantations. Between 1998 and 2006, the deforested surface of more » -
Plan to lift ban on GM foods ignites more resistance in Kenya
Posted on January 29, 2016 | No Comments“We want a government that listens to both sides in the GMO debate” – campaigners CoordinatorKenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBioC) standing second from right and other more » -
GM-free canola market “at risk”
Posted on October 21, 2015 | No CommentsJenne Brammer The West Australian, October 21, 2015 https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29861723/gm-free-canola-market-at-risk/ The GM-Free Farmers Group and Conservation Council of WA have warned that WA’s markets for non-GM canola are at risk after 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 » -
Cameroon’s changing weather linked to crop disease
Posted on October 1, 2015 | No Commentspanos.org.uk – archive Cameroon’s changing weather linked to crop disease Cocoyam, a staple food in Cameroon, is largely absent from the market this year after a blight destroyed most of more » -
An Open Letter to the United Nations
Posted on September 26, 2015 | No CommentsAlnoor Ladha Co-founder, The Rules 09/25/2015 As the UN and the world’s governments ratify the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) today (September 25), we must be clear that they do not more » -
What Happened to the Biggest Land Grab in Africa? Searching for ProSavana in Mozambique
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsBy Timothy A. Wise 20 December 2014 What if you threw a lavish party for foreign investors, and no one came? By all accounts, that is what’s happening in Mozambique’s more » -
Africa: GMOs and New Opium War in Africa
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsThe Star (Nairobi) By Oduor Ong’we 31 August 2015 Opium wars fought between Britain and China in the 19th century, are among the best-known and most studied conflicts in history. 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 »