WDM members from Derby, Nottingham, Northampton and Leicester met at the Friend’s Meeting House in Leicester to share ideas and also meet Nick Dearden the new WDM Director. It was an informative and enjoyable day. We had the opportunity to discuss the recent successful campaign to regulate betting on food prices in financial markets.
In the afternoon there was a presentation on the new Agribusiness Campaign, which aims to Stop the Corporate Takeover of Africa’s food. Launched in 2012, the New Alliance provides aid money and facilitates big business to invest in the African agricultural sector.
Around 100 farmers groups in Africa have described schemes like the New Alliance as a ‘new wave of colonialism’ – a twenty-first century bid to take control of Africa’s land and resources, sponsored by the world’s richest governments.
Join the call for the UK Government to withdraw from the New Alliance.
