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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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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 » -
Defending life! Jairo Restrepo, organic revolutionary
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsJuanFran Lopez / Ragmans Lane Farm 27th July 2015 “Every single day humanity is related to soil. Our stomach does not exist without being tied to the soil – without more » -
Warrior queens battle for Africa’s food future
Posted on June 4, 2014 | No CommentsJune 3, 2014 — The scale of foreign agribusiness on African soil could soon change how what we eat is grown, but also what we eat. The livelihoods of small-scale farmers 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 » -
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 » -
Weaponized Agriculture — Tom Mysiewicz
Posted on May 27, 2014 | No CommentsTom Mysiewicz is a biotechnologist. In this article he shares with us his conclusions about the dangers of GMO crops. GMO CROPS… BOON TO HUMANITY OR RECKLESS SCIENCE? By Tom more » -
AFSA condemns sleight of hand moves by ARIPO to join UPOV 1991, bypass national laws
Posted on April 5, 2014 | No CommentsTWN IP /Agricultural Info 04 April 2014 PRESS RELEASE FROM ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA AFSA STRONGLY CONDEMNS SLEIGHT OF HAND MOVES BY ARIPO TO JOIN UPOV 1991, BYPASS more » -
Huge Row Over GMOs As Thousands Protest In Accra
Posted on February 15, 2014 | No CommentsLawrence Lamptey Date of publication at Tlaxcala: 15/02/2014 The Coalition For Farmers Rights And Advocacy Against GMOs (COFAM) a grass-roots movement of farmers, labour unions, religious, political and civil society organizations 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 » -
Golden Rice: Myth, not Miracle
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No Commentson 12 January 2014 By Dr Vandana Shiva “You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that has created it.” - Einstein The Problem 1 billion more »