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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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UK alerts: No to subsidies for destructive biomass and biofuel electricity
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsPlease click here to take part in two simultaneous email alerts and tell the government and your MP that renewable energy support should go to clean, sustainable real renewables, such more » -
Dr. Vandana Shiva and Feminist Theory
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsJuly 4, 2009 by momentumfemininum by Rachel Brinker In Hindi, chipko means, “to embrace.” The Chipko Movement in India became one of the most successful environmental activism struggles in more » -
Meet the New Farmers
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsLarge swathes of African farmland are being snapped up by investors. Anuradha Mittal goes to see for herself how the ‘AgInvesting’ Industry is delivering Mozambican fields straight into financiers’ portfolios. more » -
Stop Imminent Land Grab That Threatens More Than 162,000 People in Tanzania
Posted on November 14, 2011 | No CommentsIowa-based investor Bruce Rastetter and fellow investors in the industrial agricultural corporation AgriSol Energy http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/land-deals-africa/agrisol-energy-llc have their sights on 800,000 acres (325,000 hectares) of land in Tanzania that is home more » -
Nigerian farmer leader talks about resistance to land grabs
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsInterview with Olaseinde Makanjuola Arigbede of the United Small and Medium scale Farmers’ Associations of Nigeria (USMEFAN), 11 August 2011 by GRAIN The United Small and Medium scale Farmers’ more » -
Ugandan farmer: ‘My land gave me everything. Now I’m one of the poorest’
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsLand tenure in Uganda is a subject of much dispute, and last year’s farming evictions have left 20,000 homeless Source: guardian.co.uk more » -
Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsUnderstanding Land Investment Deals in Africa Half a Million Lives Threatened by Land & Water Grabs for Plantations more »