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8 Oct 2014 4 minute read

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Prepare for the worst, African farmers told

Climate change threatens food security but, Henry Owino discovers, adaptation is already underway.

18 Sep 2014 3 minute read

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‘We have to be positive,’ say Gaza’s farmers

Madeleine McGivern looks at the effects of ‘Operation Protective Edge’ on food security in Gaza.

4 Jun 2014 4 minute read

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A growing issue: how can we secure food supplies?

Bryn Smith looks at ways to avert the coming crisis.

2 Apr 2014 3 minute read

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Beneath the tide, a different sort of harvest

Filmmaker Kat Zoula visits the seaweed farmers of Zanzibar.

29 Jan 2014 8 minute read

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Defending people’s milk in India

A vibrant network of small producers and milk co-operatives is threatened by free trade agreements and liberalized investment...

28 Jan 2014 3 minute read

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Sri Lankan farmers resist new seed law

Lasanda Kurukulasuriya on the fight to safeguard biodiversity and the rural economy.

1 Jan 2014 3 minute read

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The great Monsanto food prize fiasco

Yes, Monsanto actually won the 'World Food Prize'. Mark Engler picks over the scandal that ensued.

24 Sep 2013 3 minute read

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Food should be used to fill people, not cars

MEPs ignore voters and the world’s poor in biofuels vote, as Lucy Hurn explains.

27 Aug 2013 4 minute read

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‘Seeds of change’ in the struggle against global hunger

Our global food production system is broken. Kepa Artaraz on resistance to growing corporate domination.

24 Jun 2013 3 minute read

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Fracked-off farmers unite with activists

The endorsement of the agricultural lobby could provoke a mass movement against fracking in Ireland and Northern Ireland,...

G8 hunger summit provokes protest and praise

10 Jun 2013 3 minute read

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G8 hunger summit provokes protest and praise

Amy Hall joins the London climax of the IF campaign and finds herself musing the age old question – can you...

Mexico resists Monsanto corn

24 May 2013 5 minute read

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Mexico resists Monsanto corn

Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bush report from Oaxaca on a visit from Indian ‘seed activist...

23 May 2013 6 minute read

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Sup with the devil

Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how...

Join the bee buzz, David Cameron

8 May 2013 3 minute read

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Join the bee buzz, David Cameron

The European insecticide ban is a forward-thinking step. Sandra Bell calls for support from Britain’s...

1 May 2013 10 minute read

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The smallholders’ last stand

A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in...

Time to slash Europe’s land footprint

4 Apr 2013 3 minute read

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Time to slash Europe’s land footprint

As the need grows for Europe to use more of the Earth than it has between its borders, Ian Fitzpatrick argues...

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