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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 end of third-party advocacy for GMOs?
Posted on October 17, 2015 | No CommentsAs freedom of information requests reveal ostensibly independent GMO proponents to be working hand-in-hand with the GMO industry, Claire Robinson asks if the misinformation game is finally over GM Watch, more » -
![Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique By Boaventura Monjane Pambazuka | 3 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25304 Resistance to ProSavana [1], the controversial agricultural <a href="https://worldfamilyonline.org/resistance-to-an-erroneous-development-model-a-critique-of-prosavana-in-mozambique/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>](http://worldfamilyonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/medium_epa03931029-protesters-hold-banner-with-the-word-enough-during-a-peaceful-CMKNYF-115x115.jpg "Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique")
Resistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique
Posted on September 17, 2015 | No CommentsResistance to an erroneous ‘development’ model: A critique of ProSavana in Mozambique By Boaventura Monjane Pambazuka | 3 September 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25304 Resistance to ProSavana [1], the controversial agricultural more » -
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s white ally in land grab row
Posted on September 10, 2015 | No CommentsPublished: 04 Sep 2015 Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25281 Posted in: Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s government says it can’t be picky about who to do business with, including Billy Rautenbach, who is accused of more » -
Defending life! Jairo Restrepo, organic revolutionary
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsJuanFran Lopez / Ragmans Lane Farm 27th July 2015 “Every single day humanity is related to soil. Our stomach does not exist without being tied to the soil – without more » -
California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto’s Roundup ‘Carcinogenic’
Posted on September 8, 2015 | No CommentsBy Sam Levin East Bay Express September 5, 2015 The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main more » -
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Posted on September 2, 2015 | 1 CommentJonathan R. Latham, PhD August 31, 2015 By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically more » -
AFAP in Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania
Posted on August 31, 2015 | No CommentsFrom African Centre for Biodiversity, 31.8.15 The chemical fertiliser push in Africa and its implications for smallholder farmers is not receiving enough attention in current discourses concerning Green Revolution policies more » -
2,4-D soy: waging war on peasants
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsGRAIN | 26 May 2014 | Against the grain Global attempts by Dow AgroSciences to gain approval for new genetically-modified soybean varieties resistant more » -
USA finally considering action over neonicotinoids, spurred on by doubts as to whether they actually work
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsA blog by Prof Dave Goulson, University of Sussex. 2nd June 2014 Two US Congressmen have launched a bill to suspend uses of neonicotinoid insecticides in the US, following the more » -
Weaponized Agriculture — Tom Mysiewicz
Posted on May 27, 2014 | No CommentsTom Mysiewicz is a biotechnologist. In this article he shares with us his conclusions about the dangers of GMO crops. GMO CROPS… BOON TO HUMANITY OR RECKLESS SCIENCE? By Tom more »