The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit. Aside from losing their land to global investors and big agribusiness concerns, farmers and ordinary people are being sickened by corporations and a system that thrives on the promotion of ‘junk’ (ultra-processed) food laced with harmful chemicals and cultivated with the use
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In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world's food in its report 'Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland'. The report 'Small-scale Farmers and Peasants Still.