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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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Corporations replace peasants as the “vanguard” of China’s new food security agenda
Posted on November 3, 2015 | No CommentsGRAIN | 03 November 2015 | Against the grain The past few years have been horrible for China’s small dairy farmers. Demand for domestic production has slumped because of milk more » -
What Happened to the Biggest Land Grab in Africa? Searching for ProSavana in Mozambique
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsBy Timothy A. Wise 20 December 2014 What if you threw a lavish party for foreign investors, and no one came? By all accounts, that is what’s happening in Mozambique’s 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 » -
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 » -
Will Africa feed China?
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsWill Africa feed China? By Deborah Brautigam Published: 02 Sep 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25302 In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, the author discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development 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 » -
Ethiopians Break their Silence Against Government Repression and Forced Displacement
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsOakland Institute April 14, 2015 New Landmark Testimony: “We Say the Land is Not Yours” Oakland, CA – We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced more » -
Ethiopian farmer takes UK to court over ‘brutal’ resettlement policy
Posted on April 14, 2015 | No CommentsLegal battle launched after man claims he was evicted from his farm and beaten under villagisation scheme funded by UK aid Annie Kelly A traditional homestead in Gambella, the remote 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 »