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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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Down on the Farm
Posted on February 18, 2014 | No CommentsOakland Institiute 18th February 2014 The first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale. An estimated 500 million acres, an area eight more » -
Slideshow: Who’s behind the land grabs?
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 16 October 2012 | Presentations, Other publications A slide show about some of the people pursuing or supporting large farmland grabs around the world Every day there are more » -
Cameroon Activists on Trial for Peaceful Protest against Wall Street Land Grabber
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsTake Action! 1. Make a donation toward legal fees and support local community struggle against Herakles Farms 2. Email Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its more » -
Calabar Declaration
Posted on November 19, 2013 | No CommentsNov 18, 2013 We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and more » -
Colombia farmers’ uprising puts the spotlight on seeds
Posted on September 8, 2013 | 1 CommentGRAIN | 04 September 2013 | Against the grain On 19 August, Colombian farmers’ organisations initiated a massive nationwide strike. They blocked roads, dumped milk on cars and basically stopped more » -
Deleting our Rights, Bracketing our Future Why we need a People’s Summit
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy Paul Quintos, Ibon International, March 23, 2012 I think the best way to appreciate the people’s summit in Rio is to look at what’s happening here in this hall more » -
Honduras: The War on Peasants
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsEric Holt Gimenez. Huffington Post. February 12, 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/honduras-the-war-on-peasa_b_2632033.html Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous more » -
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
Posted on December 3, 2012 | No CommentsFood Crisis and the Global Land Grab -
Let’s Discuss And Combine To Avert Jatropha Suffocation Of Countries Of The ‘South’ – Olaseinde Arigbede
Posted on February 11, 2012 | No CommentsFUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO AGROFUELS With special reference to JATROPHA – DIESEL 1. Whatever new development, technological or otherwise, that human beings have embarked upon with the primary/sole intention of maximising 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 »