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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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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 » -
Rubber Barons: how Vietnamese companies and international financiers are driving a land grabbing crisis in Cambodia and Laos.
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No CommentsGlobal Witness’ new report Josie Cohen, Land Campaigner, Global Witness Rubber Barons reveals how vast amounts of land have been acquired for rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos by two more » -
A new report on Land Grabbing in Europe
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments17th of April 2013 – International Day of Peasant struggles New report argues that: Land concentration and land grabbing are occurring and reaching blatant levels in Europe Land concentration and more » -
Honduras: The War on Peasants
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsEric Holt Gimenez. Huffington Post. February 12, 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/honduras-the-war-on-peasa_b_2632033.html Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous more » -
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
Posted on December 3, 2012 | No CommentsFood Crisis and the Global Land Grab -
Madagascar: Community resistance to corporate land theft
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No Commentsfarmlandgrab.org | 6 April 2011 by Stefan Christoff In Madagascar grassroots struggles against corporate-driven land grabbing have emerged as a political point of focus in the growing global spotlight on more » -
Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa: Ethiopia
Posted on February 11, 2012 | No CommentsFor decades, Ethiopia has been known to the outside world as a country of famine, food shortages, endemic hunger, and chronic dependency on foreign aid. Despite receiving billions of dollars more » -
ACT NOW: US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced Relocations for Land Grabs
Posted on February 11, 2012 | 1 CommentSign the petition to President Barack Obama and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah today Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make land available for foreign more » -
Let’s Discuss And Combine To Avert Jatropha Suffocation Of Countries Of The ‘South’ – Olaseinde Arigbede
Posted on February 11, 2012 | No CommentsFUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIONS TO AGROFUELS With special reference to JATROPHA – DIESEL 1. Whatever new development, technological or otherwise, that human beings have embarked upon with the primary/sole intention of maximising more » -
Africa’s Great ‘Water Grab’
Posted on December 3, 2011 | No CommentsForeign investors aren’t just after land in Africa. Access to water is essential – which can bring them into direct competition with the needs of local communities. Passengers in a more »