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did you know?: In 2008, Friends of the Earth International counted 77 member groups and 14 affiliates, uniting more than 2 million members and supporters around the world.
africa: mapping the expansion of agrofuels: Switching to agrofuels has been portrayed as a golden opportunity, a ‘green’ solution that could tackle the world’s energy crisis and help to mitigate climate change. Industrialized countries, international financial institutions such as the World Bank, and multinational agribusiness, oil and transport companies are all promoting agrofuels as a panacea to the world’s problems.
nigeria: challenging agrofuels in west africa: It is increasingly recognized that filling gas tanks with agrofuels exported from Africa and other impoverished regions monopolizes productive arable land. This robs people of their farmland and violates local communities’ rights to food. Opposition to agrofuels means that corporations are now looking to Africa’s so-called ‘marginal lands’ – which they regard as being unimportant or worthless – as a testing ground for the production of crops like cassava and oil palm. Yet the concept of ‘marginal lands’ ignores the various important ways in which local communities utilize their lands.
member groups: Friends of the Earth International is made up of the activities and actions of our 76 member groups, and it is our mission to support and strengthen their work at the local level. These groups mobilize people, resist socially and environmentally damaging projects and policies, and help to transform their societies in tens of countries around the world. Their local work in turn allows us to campaign on the regional and international levels, and to seek political support for the rights of people everywhere to sustainable livelihoods and for social, economic, gender and environmental justice.
international photo competition and calendar 2008: Friends of the Earth International ran our third annual photo competition in 2008 on the theme of "Dreams, Hopes and Possibilities for a Better World."
new members, executive committee and chair: Members of Friends of the Earth International voted in new members, a new chair, and a new executive committee at the 2008 Biannual General Meeting in Honduras.
friends of the earth in the media in 2008: In 2008, a broad and growing spectrum of media organizations, spanning from the world's leading newspapers to niche websites, carried Friends of the Earth International's messages to audiences around the world.
nigeria & south africa: african “people power” exchange: Nigeria and South Africa are both resource-rich countries, especially when it comes to minerals, oil and gas. Yet when multinational corporations exploit this wealth, local communities are too often burdened with the major social and environmental costs.
togo, ghana & nigeria: inspiring west africans’ resistance to controversial pipeline: The newly-operational 680-kilometer West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) from Nigeria through Benin, Togo and Ghana is unlikely to fulfil its promise to reduce gas flaring in the conflict-ridden Niger Delta. Local communities on the pipeline’s path along the Gulf of Guinea have confronted issues including inadequate compensation, insufficient safety measures, pollution and damage to fisheries. Yet there is little recourse to hold the Bermuda-registered West African Pipeline Company (WAPCo) consortium responsible for its actions.
poison fire: foei documentary focuses on gas flaring in nigeria: A film-maker with a strong “participatory” approach finalized a Friends of the Earth International-commissioned documentary on the environmental and social impacts of oil production and gas flaring in Nigeria in 2007.
nigeria: raising awareness of climate change impacts: Climate Change is severely affecting livelihoods in Nigeria by altering seasonal rainfall patterns. Streams and springs are drying up, causing major crop yield reductions and food shortages. However, the level of awareness of climate change impacts is very low. Corporations and the transport sector, the major perpetrators of this damage, have not even begun to take the necessary actions to address these problems. No abatement measures are being implemented to stop gas flaring, Nigeria’s main source of greenhouse gas emissions.
shell, use your profits to clean up your mess!: In February 2007, Shell announced that its profits were sky-high for 2006, following on from record-breaking 2005 profits. With such wealth, one would expect Shell to adhere to its much touted commitment to Corporate Social Responsiblity. Yet around the world, people living on the “fenceline” of Shell’s operations are pay dearly for its profits through severe environmental pollution and degredation.
foei report exposes failure of gm crops: In January 2007, Friends of the Earth International released a new report demonstrating how genetically modified (GM) crops have failed to address the main challenges facing farmers around the world.
food and agriculture calendar 2007: Hundreds of professional and amateur photographers from around the world entered our second annual photo competition, on the theme of “food and agriculture” in 2007.
africa: monitoring the introduction of gmos: Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entering African countries pose a growing risk to human health, the environment and poor farmers’ food security. Their governments are under major pressure to introduce GMOs from multinational corporations, which argue (despite lacking evidence) this will improve food security. Africans are also vulnerable to introduction of GMOs through food aid, from donor agencies such as USAID.
nigeria: building up community forest management: The 20,000 agrarian people who live in the Iguobazuwa Forest Reserve area in Nigeria’s Edo state depend on this natural resource and its associated farmlands for their livelihood. However, in 2007 the multinational rubber company Michelin Nigeria acquired a vast expanse of this land from the state government for a rubber plantation. Obtained without their consent, this concession has deprived 80 per cent of these local people of their livelihood.
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friends of the earth in the media in 2007: Friends of the Earth messages were carried during 2007 by a growing and broad spectrum of media organisations, spanning from the world's leading newspapers to alternative news websites. The following quotes were selected from stories published in 2007.
world social forum in nairobi: The Friends of the Earth International delegation to the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya included some 30 people, including community representatives from Nigeria and South Africa.
oil refineries emit smoke, not flowers!: Shell is infamous for environmentally destructive and highly polluting oil operations around the world. So when Friends of the Earth campaigners saw a Shell advertisment depicting a refinery smokestack emitting only flowers, instead of smoke, they recognised it for what it was: blatant greenwash. And they took action, by filing simultaneous complaints to three European national advertising standards authorities in the Netherlands, England and Belgium.

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