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Alternatives to agribusiness
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Around the world, arable lands are being acquired or occupied by companies, governments and investors. Food in all parts of the world has become homogeneous from seed to consumer and agribusiness is being presented as a synonym for 'development' for countries and rural communities. However, these testimonies prove otherwise.
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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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Killing Fields the battle to feed factory farms
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This ground breaking film investigates the impacts of growing soy in South America to feed factory farms in Europe. Our campaign gives people unwittingly caught up in this damaging chain hope that they can break out of it.
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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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Food Sovereignty Program highlights
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The Food Sovereignty Program’s objective is to resist and expose industrial corporate-led agriculture and promote food sovereignty.
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Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) statement
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Friends of the Earth International, April 2008: Friends of the Earth International strongly rejects the current process of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS). The Roundtable completely fails to address the major social and environmental impacts of industrial-scale soy cultivation and frustrates real solutions.
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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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GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010
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Come and take part in the 6th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions, Brussels and Ghent, September 16-18, 2010. Co-organised by Friends of the Earth Europe.
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GMO-Free Europe Conference 2010
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Come and take part in the 6th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions, Brussels and Ghent, September 16-18, 2010. Co-organised by Friends of the Earth Europe.
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Who benefits from GM crops? 2009
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Friends of the Earth International, February 2009: The biotechnology industry has aggressively touted GM as a solution to hunger and the global food crisis. Their arguments have been accepted by many politicians. This short briefing is a summary looks behind the spin and exposes the reasons why GM crops cannot, and are unlikely ever, to contribute to poverty reduction, global food security or sustainable farming.
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