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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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Monsanto vs. Mother Earth
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No Commentshttp://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_x/?bRyJCab&v=23931 Posted: 9 April 2013 It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us 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 » -
Red Alert! US State Department adviser hints at EU “food crisis” to boost GM
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsFood crisis needed for Europe to accept GM: US government adviser By Mike Stones 1st March 2013 It will take a food security crisis to make European consumers recognise the more » -
India’s rice revolution
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsJohn Vidal in Bihar, India - The Observer, Saturday 16 February 2013 In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with more » -
US farmers may stop planting GMOs after poor yields
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsSome US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts. Robyn Vinter, 6 February more » -
How to Save Family Farms for the Future: COCA Shows the Way
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsCaerhys Organic Community Agriculture (COCA): members have this spectacular view of the Pembrokeshire coast from the vegetable field. CSA? Community Supported Agriculture? What does it mean exactly? I have a more » -
Grain Reserves and the Food Price Crisis: Selected Writings from 2008–2012
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsAs global rates of hunger continue to climb, food prices remain high and unstable, and climate change disrupts agricultural production, the age-old idea of food reserves is making a comeback. more » -
‘Agent Orange’ tainted GM maize give green light in South Africa
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 1 CommentThe African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) is deeply dismayed and shocked that the GMO decision-making body has given the green light for the importation of Dow Chemical’s highly controversial 2,4-D more » -
THE NEW ALLIANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: NOTHING NEW ABOUT IGNORING AFRICA’S FARMERS
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Eric Giminez for Huffington Post, 23.05.2012. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/africa-food-security_b_1537279.html) President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he is actually a liberal after all. First he not-so-hastily follows more » -
Wiping of the Tears
Posted on April 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe Wiping of the Tears ceremony, foretold in a vision to the late Jake Swamp prior to his passing over in fall of 2010, is due to commence in early more »