A report of UK based development organisation "Action Aid" highlights the growing power of global food companies. Multinationals have gained control of the global food chain - all the way from seed to supermarket shelf and are threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of poor farmers and undermining their basic rights.</p><p><a href="http://www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=1486">ActionAid: 'Power hungry: six reasons to regulate global food companies'</a>