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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 » -
Pig antibiotic alarm
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsSaturday 11 April 2015 http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/pig-antibiotic-alarm.26777021 NEW RESEARCH from Denmark has shown conventional pigs were treated with 10 times more doses of antibiotics than organic pigs. The statistics released by the more » -
Ethiopians Break their Silence Against Government Repression and Forced Displacement
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsOakland Institute April 14, 2015 New Landmark Testimony: “We Say the Land is Not Yours” Oakland, CA – We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced more » -
Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate
Posted on July 1, 2014 | No CommentsRhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 29, 2014 Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0629-indonesia-highest-deforestation-rate.html#0RhrkXOzyCvzqWRY.99 Indonesia now has the highest deforestation rate in the world, topping even Brazil which has more than five times 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 » -
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 » -
“Syngenta methods of silencing GMO opposition are unbelievable”
Posted on May 15, 2014 | No CommentsGMWATCH DAILY NEWS 15.4.14 German dairy farmer Gottfried Glöckner says he suffered attempted blackmail, character assassination and even wrongful imprisonment when he refused to back off his charges that the more » -
Honeybees abandoning hives and dying due to insecticide use, research finds
Posted on May 12, 2014 | No CommentsHarvard study shows neonicotionoids are devastating colonies by triggering colony collapse disorder Damian Carrington, theguardian.com, 9 May 2014 Scientists found bees from six of more » -
BT brinjal farming ruins Gazipur farmers
Posted on May 7, 2014 | No CommentsMH Maswood New Age, the outspoken daily May 7, 2014 Farmer Munsur Sarker shows shoot borer in a Bt brinjal plant at his field more »