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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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Roundup under the spotlight in Denmark
Posted on April 5, 2014 | No CommentsDanish scientists have concluded that there is a need to investigate the possible effects of glyphosate herbicides on the health of livestock. 1. Danish scientists recommend further research into effects more » -
Huge Row Over GMOs As Thousands Protest In Accra
Posted on February 15, 2014 | No CommentsLawrence Lamptey Date of publication at Tlaxcala: 15/02/2014 The Coalition For Farmers Rights And Advocacy Against GMOs (COFAM) a grass-roots movement of farmers, labour unions, religious, political and civil society organizations more » -
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 » -
Venezuela and the Battle Against Transgenic Seeds
Posted on December 13, 2013 | No CommentsBy: Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University and William Camacaro, MFA, Member of the Bolivarian Circle more » -
We are not backward. Our seeds and knowledge are crucial for our survival
Posted on November 13, 2013 | No CommentsVia Campesina <viacampesina@viacampesina.org> LVC Africa News, 13 Nov 2013 (Harare, November 13, 2013) Seed diversity, created by peasants over centuries, is in danger of disappearing and the diversity of seeds more » -
Research based on ‘Livelihood Security in a Changing Environment: Organic Conservation Agriculture in Mashonaland East’
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsWritten by: Georgina McAllister (GardenAfrica). Report reviewers John Wilson, Ebbie Dengu, Jeremy Cherfas, & thanks to: Cornelius Murombedzi, Michael Connolly. Unlocking Zimbabwe’s Organic Potential – GardenAfrica This report has been more » -
Deleting our Rights, Bracketing our Future Why we need a People’s Summit
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy Paul Quintos, Ibon International, March 23, 2012 I think the best way to appreciate the people’s summit in Rio is to look at what’s happening here in this hall more » -
The view from a mountain; an organic food grower’s story
Posted on April 3, 2013 | 2 CommentsBy Colette Haynes of Ashurst Organics, posted by Roberta Emmott in Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, 20 March 2013 Inspired by the joy of growing, Colette Haynes started Ashurst Organics 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 » -
Over 500 women farmers from Andhra Pradesh protest against the Government of India’s inaction against the spread of Bt cotton in their area.
Posted on April 15, 2012 | No CommentsJonathan MatthewsGMWatch Over 500 women farmers from Andhra Pradesh protest against the Government of India’s inaction against the spread of Bt cotton in their area. Farmers are lured by the more »