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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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The Women Speak
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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 » -
Gates Foundation “Swimming Against a Tide of Informed Opinion”
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsGM Freeze, 31 Oct 2011 (http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/170/) As the world population reaches 7 billion GM Freeze says in a new report published today [1] that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s more » -
Going to seed
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsHybrid and genetically-modified seeds may create more problems than they solve. Nepali Times (http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2011/11/04/Nation/18676) FROM ISSUE #577 (04 NOV 2011 – 10 NOV 2011) A US-government supported pilot project to more » -
Farmer to Farmer – Documentary
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsFrom GM Freeze (http://www.gmfreeze.org/why-freeze/farmer-farmer-truth-about-gm-crops/) Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for 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 » -
How British supermarkets are degrading UK Agriculture
Posted on November 10, 2011 | No CommentsHow British supermarkets are degrading UK Agriculture by Robert Willis 10th November 2011 The relationship between supermarket and supplier during the economic recession is deteriorating at an increasing rate more » -
A World Family Calabash-Food-Sovereignty-Next-Steps
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsA World Family Calabash “A People’s Takeover of the World’s Food Supply” Speakers from 4 Continents, Good Food and Great Music We welcome you to come and discuss the more »