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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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Giving With One Hand and Taking With Two: A Critique of Agra’s African Agriculture Status Report 2013
Posted on December 18, 2013 | No CommentsAfrican Centre for Biosafety 18 November 2013 The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released a comprehensive critique of a report published by the African Alliance for a Green Revolution more » -
Greenpeace and the Oakland Institute: Cameroon, Herakles Land Lease Signature is an Alarming Development
Posted on December 12, 2013 | No CommentsNovember 26, 2013 Greenpeace Africa and the Oakland Institute are alarmed by the decision of the Cameroonian government to award US agribusiness company Herakles Farms a three-year provisional land lease more » -
After four years of illegality, Cameroon grants a temporary concession to SGSOC
Posted on December 12, 2013 | No CommentsYaounde November 25, 2013 The Head of State has signed today three decrees granting temporary concessions on agricultural land to SGSOC, Herakles Farms subsidiary in the Nguti, Toko and Mundemba more » -
India – people resist airport land grabs
Posted on November 23, 2013 | No CommentsRose Bridger 21st November 2013 One of many protests against a greenfield airport at Aranmula. Photo: Aranmula Paithruka Grama Karmasamithy. Rural communities all more » -
Calabar Declaration
Posted on November 19, 2013 | No CommentsNov 18, 2013 We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and more » -
Yet another UN report calls for support to peasant farming and agroecology: it’s time for action
Posted on October 29, 2013 | No CommentsGRAIN | La Vía Campesina | ETC Group | 23 September 2013 | Other publications Media release 23 September 2013 La Via Campesina, GRAIN and ETC welcome a new UNCTAD more » -
Yet another UN report calls for support to peasant farming and agroecology: it’s time for action
Posted on September 24, 2013 | No CommentsGRAIN | La Vía Campesina | ETC Group | 23 September 2013 | Other publications Media release 23 September 2013 La Via Campesina, GRAIN more » -
Colombia farmers’ uprising puts the spotlight on seeds
Posted on September 8, 2013 | 1 CommentGRAIN | 04 September 2013 | Against the grain On 19 August, Colombian farmers’ organisations initiated a massive nationwide strike. They blocked roads, dumped milk on cars and basically stopped more » -
African Food Sovereignty under attack by corporate interests
Posted on August 19, 2013 | No CommentsAlliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa 16 August 2013 Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with members in 50 African countries more » -
Hungry for change
Posted on August 19, 2013 | No CommentsIf international trade and aid won’t fix hunger and bad nutrition, what will? Jo Chandler, June 19, 2013 Professor Olivier De Schutter. Photo: Mal more »