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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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In Paraguay, the Spread of Soy Strikes Fear in Hearts of Rural Farmers
Posted on August 10, 2013 | No CommentsBy Jonathan Gilbert / Santa Catalina, Paraguay Aug. 09, 2013 Soya Plantation in Paraguay – photographer: Patty P via Wikipaedia Commons Emilio Arce more » -
African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?
Posted on June 19, 2013 | No CommentsReport June 2013 EcoNexus Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher Overview This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in more » -
NEW SEED LEGISLATION SPELLS DISASTER FOR SMALL FARMERS IN AFRICA
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No CommentsCivil society organisations from the SADC region, and around the world have condemned the SADC draft Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Plant Breeders’ Rights) as spelling more » -
Monsanto vs. Mother Earth
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No Commentshttp://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_x/?bRyJCab&v=23931 Posted: 9 April 2013 It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us 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 » -
Monsanto v. Bowman: The Master’s Law
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsEric Holt Giminez, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/monsanto-v-bowman-the-mas_b_2721776.html?view=print&comm_ref=false The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto Co. The 75-year-old Indiana soybean more » -
The view from a mountain; an organic food grower’s story
Posted on April 3, 2013 | 2 CommentsBy Colette Haynes of Ashurst Organics, posted by Roberta Emmott in Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, 20 March 2013 Inspired by the joy of growing, Colette Haynes started Ashurst Organics more » -
Red Alert! US State Department adviser hints at EU “food crisis” to boost GM
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsFood crisis needed for Europe to accept GM: US government adviser By Mike Stones 1st March 2013 It will take a food security crisis to make European consumers recognise the more » -
GMO Trial Verdict: Criminalisation of Struggle for a Sustainable Agricultural System
Posted on February 19, 2013 | No Comments(Dendermonde, 12th February 2013). Today the court of Dendermonde convicted 11 activists of gang formation. In doing so, the judge has criminalised their participation in the non violent direct action more » -
India’s rice revolution
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsJohn Vidal in Bihar, India - The Observer, Saturday 16 February 2013 In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with more »