Showing posts with label agricultural system. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Family farms produce 80 percent of world's food, speculators seek land

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite renewed interest in industrial agriculture by investment banks and sovereign wealth funds, more than 80 percent of the world's food is still produced by family farmers, according to new U.N. research published on Thursday.