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people need biodiversity
The planet's biodiversity is disappearing fast: an estimated one third of total global species have been lost in the past three decades.
People's livelihoods are also at
risk: farmers, small-scale fisherfolk,
communities, and Indigenous Peoples face
rapid economic, social and cultural
impoverishment as their natural resources are
depleted. Biodiversity loss is fueled by
corporate-led globalization, which promotes
large-scale, exportoriented agro-industry,
unsustainable commercial logging companies,
fish farms and factories, and huge mining
operations.
save the seeds!
Friends of the Earth campaigns against
biopiracy and the patenting of seeds and
other life forms, and for the rights of
farmers and Indigenous Peoples' to save their
own seeds. We believe that the rights of
people to control their own resources and
food sovereignty must be respected in order
to halt the loss of the world's natural
wealth.
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