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Paraguay: the human cost of soy
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Local farmers tell their stories of living with the devastating effects of soy cultivation in Paraguay.
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meat and forest products consumption fuel inequalities in global land use
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NEW REPORT: Europe and United States import millions of hectares of virtual land
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / LONDON (UK), October 10, 2011 – More than 60 per cent of land consumed in Europe is imported while US demand for imported land increased by 100 Million hectares between 1997 and 2004, new research published today by Friends of the Earth reveals. [1]
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2011
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Food Crisis Talks: Governments Should Scrap Biofuels, Not Push GM Crops
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ROME (ITALY) / LONDON (UK), October 16, 2012 – As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to discuss the global food price crisis, Friends of the Earth International warns in a new report [1] that agriculture donors such as the United States and United Kingdom are pumping money into genetically modified (GM) crops at the cost of farming methods better suited to tackling hunger.
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Lords of the Land: Analysis of Land Grabbing in Mozambique
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Friends of the Earth Mozambique and the National Farmers Union of Mozambique, March 2011: This report uses case studies to analyse the practice of land grabbing taking place in Mozambique.
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2011
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community based forest governance
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Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Human civilization has played a role in forest destruction for millennia. However, in the recent decades this devastation has become commonplace, and has reached a scale and pace of destruction that is unprecedented. Primary forests are the home and foundation for the rich cultures and lifestyles of more than 1 billion Indigenous people. Another four billion live in communities adjacent to, or dependent in some form or another, on forests.
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Green schemes for biofuel crops set to fail
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Attempts to use certification schemes to reduce the widespread environmental and social problems caused by growing crops for fuels and animal feeds are bound to fail, states a new report released today by Friends of the Earth groups.
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EU warned: biofuels will drive biodiversity loss
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Increasing the use of biofuels in Europe will have devastating impacts on wildlife a new scientific assessment has shown.
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palm oil advert misleading
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Friends of the Earth International has welcomed a ruling today by the UK advertising watchdog that describing palm oil as “sustainably produced” is false advertising.
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2008
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Africa: up for grabs
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Friends of the Earth Europe and Africa, August 2010: The African continent is increasingly being seen as a source of agricultural land and natural resources for the rest of the world. National governments and private companies are obtaining access to land across the continent to grow crops for food and fuel to meet growing demand from mainly overseas countries. This report discusses the scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels.
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2010
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Complaint to the ASA about Malaysian Palm Oil Council
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June 2009, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland's: A complaint to the Advertising Standards Association (ASA) on the Malaysian Palm Oil Council's misleading green claims. In September 2009 the ASA called for the advertisement in question to to be withdrawn.
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