Includes the figures and what they tell us: the vast majority of farms in the world today are small and getter smaller; small farms are being squeezed onto less than a quarter of global agricultural land; we’re fast losing farms and farmers in many places, while big farms are getting bigger; despite their scarce and dwindling resources, small farmers continue to be the world’s major food producers; small farms not only produce most of the food, they are also the most productive; most small farmers are women, but their contributions are ignored and marginalised.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2014Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2015Africa
The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations. The end goal is to turn what has long been held as a commons into a marketable commodity that the private sector can control and extract profit from at the expense of smallholder farmers and communities. This survey aims to provide an overview of just who is pushing for which specific changes in these areas – looking not at the plans and projects, but at the actual texts that will define the new rules.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Global, Vietnam
The world's largest agribusiness corporations are rolling out a public-private partnership programme to take control of food and farming in the Global South.
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GRAIN and La Vía Campesina
Reports & ResearchMay, 2014Global
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Media release
28 May 2014
GRAIN | La Vía Campesina
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