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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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Burkina Faso abandons GM Bt cotton
Posted on January 29, 2016 | No CommentsThe country’s exit from Bt cotton cultivation may have implications for Africa’s stance on GM crops in general, says a new briefing. Report by Claire Robinson 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 » -
![Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique By Boaventura Monjane Pambazuka | 3 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25304 Resistance to ProSavana [1], the controversial agricultural <a href="https://worldfamilyonline.org/resistance-to-an-erroneous-development-model-a-critique-of-prosavana-in-mozambique/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>](http://worldfamilyonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/medium_epa03931029-protesters-hold-banner-with-the-word-enough-during-a-peaceful-CMKNYF-115x115.jpg "Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique")
Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsResistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique By Boaventura Monjane Pambazuka | 3 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25304 Resistance to ProSavana [1], the controversial agricultural 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 » -
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 » -
AFAP in Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania
Posted on August 31, 2015 | No CommentsFrom African Centre for Biodiversity, 31.8.15 The chemical fertiliser push in Africa and its implications for smallholder farmers is not receiving enough attention in current discourses concerning Green Revolution policies more » -
Bringing a Superfood Down to Earth
Posted on August 30, 2015 | No CommentsAugust 26, 2015 post by Glenn Stone, PhD, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences Genetically modified (GM) crops are mostly planted on large industrialized farms (mainly in 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 »