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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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Picking up the Pieces from a Failed Land Grab Project in Tanzania
Posted on July 1, 2014 | No CommentsAs negotiations over responsible agricultural investment policy run through the summer, Tanzanian villagers fight for the return of 20,000 acres of land lost to a failed biofuel project. Timothy A. 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 » -
Down on the Farm
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsThe first years of the twenty-first century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented scale. An estimated 500 more » -
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 28 May 2014 | Reports Alcides Raméon Ramírez, a member of one of 200 peasant families fighting to defend their land in Curuguaty, more » -
Co-op’s £140m farms sale aimed at Chinese buyers
Posted on May 4, 2014 | No CommentsTroubled group angers green campaigners by insisting on single purchaser Tracy McVeigh The Observer, Saturday 3 May 2014 The beleaguered Co-operative Group has insisted that it wants a single more » -
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 » -
Landgrabbing for Nigeria’s Rice Revolution, Peter Jopke
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsPremium Times Published: January 3,2014 The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms. The Memorandum of Understanding of 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 » -
Kenya: Preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsJanuary 31, 2014 (Forest guards arrive in Kenya’s Embobut Forest in preparation for the evictions. © FPP) Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the more »