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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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Landgrabbing for Nigeria’s Rice Revolution, Peter Jopke
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsPremium Times Published: January 3,2014 The North-Eastern Nigerian State of Taraba is on the verge of handing over 30,000 hectares of land to Dominion Farms. The Memorandum of Understanding of more » -
Cameroon Activists on Trial for Peaceful Protest against Wall Street Land Grabber
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsTake Action! 1. Make a donation toward legal fees and support local community struggle against Herakles Farms 2. Email Herakles Farms and tell the company to stop its more » -
Kenya: Preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
Posted on February 13, 2014 | No CommentsJanuary 31, 2014 (Forest guards arrive in Kenya’s Embobut Forest in preparation for the evictions. © FPP) Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the more » -
Golden Rice: Myth, not Miracle
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No Commentson 12 January 2014 By Dr Vandana Shiva “You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that has created it.” - Einstein The Problem 1 billion more » -
India – people resist airport land grabs
Posted on November 23, 2013 | No CommentsRose Bridger 21st November 2013 One of many protests against a greenfield airport at Aranmula. Photo: Aranmula Paithruka Grama Karmasamithy. Rural communities all more » -
What Colombia’s Kogi people can teach us about the environment
Posted on November 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe Kogi people are warning society of destruction we face if we fail to embrace nature Jini Reddy 29 Octboer 2013 The Kogi Mama more » -
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
Posted on November 22, 2013 | No CommentsBy JIM ROBBINS November 22, 2013 Micah Lidberg ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the 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 » -
There is no Plan Bee for when we run out of pollinators
Posted on November 10, 2013 | No CommentsBy Dave Goulson November 8, 2013 We could not have tried harder to wipe out the invaluable pollinator, writes Dave Goulson @Reuters Biologists have been more » -
Small Farms, Not Monsanto, Are Key to Global Food Security
Posted on October 24, 2013 | No CommentsUnion of Concerned Scientists – The Equation, a blog on independent science + practical solutions Doug Gurian-Sherman October 17, 2013 Data from 15 Kenyan farmers over a period of 6 more »