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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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Cars and trucks burn almost half of all palm oil used in Europe
Posted on June 2, 2016 | No CommentsMay 2016 Transport and Environment This briefing details the feedstock used in biodiesel in Europe between 2010 and 2014. It is based on official industry data from Fediol obtained by more » -
Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Posted on March 14, 2016 | No CommentsBy Almuth Ernsting Published today (Mon 14th March) by Independent Science News Biofuels consumed today are usually ethanol made from the sugar in sugar cane (or sugar beet) or they more » -
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 » -
Millionaire investors buying up farm lands
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsMillionaire investors buying up farm lands By Daniel Essieton The National | 11 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25299 Politicians and business executives on a visit to the Shonga dairy farm more » -
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s white ally in land grab row
Posted on September 10, 2015 | No CommentsPublished: 04 Sep 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25281 Posted in: Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s government says it can’t be picky about who to do business with, including Billy Rautenbach, who is accused of more » -
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
Posted on July 6, 2014 | No CommentsNafeez Ahmed 3 July 2014 theguardian.com Plight of Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South UN’s REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local 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 » -
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 » -
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 »