It is by now a FACT that family farmers feed 70% of the world, using less than a Quarter of agricultural land. A study by GRAIN, using United Nations FAO statistics found that “control over land is being usurped from small producers and their families, with elites and corporate powers pushing people onto smaller and smaller land holdings, or off the land entirely into camps or cities.” Our government supports these landgrabbing multinational corporations and their toxic products, as we can see RIGHT NOW with the Monsanto GM Maize Trials in LUTZVILLE.
Corporate stranglehold of farmland a risk to world food security, study says
www.theguardian.com
Small farmers are being squeezed out as mega-farms and plantations gobble up their land …read more