swedish society for nature conservation
We are grateful to the swedish society for nature conservation for supporting the following projects in 2007:
foei forests campaign builds alliances in 2007
With half of global forests destroyed, and in the face of ongoing deforestation, Friends of the Earth International is continuing its campaign to halt illegal logging and unsustainable forest practices. We believe sustainable forest management and small-scale agriculture are best left to Indigenous Peoples and local communities, who should be granted land and resource rights.
foei advances food sovereignty agenda with 2007 summit
Farmers, fisherfolk, women’s groups, rural and urban workers, indigenous peoples, migrants, pastoralists, environmental organizations and NGOs all joined hands for the World Forum for Food Sovereignty, held in the village of Nyéléni à Sélingué, Mali during February, 2007. Twenty members from the Friends of the Earth International network attended, and we also worked with an alliance of international social movements to help organise the forum.
friends of the earth groups push for results at bali climate talks
The December 2007 climate summit, held in Bali, Indonesia marked the deadline for nations to agree on a “road map” for a new agreement to tackle climate change, beyond the current 2008-12 Kyoto Protocol commitment period.
el salvador: fostering community resistance to corporate exploitation
El Salvador’s history is a paradoxical one, filled with struggle and hope. After 12 years of brutal civil war ending with the 1992 Peace Agreements, and with major inequalities between rich and poor, El Salvador nonetheless persists with a neoliberal agenda at the expense of social policies. This has promoted privatization, dollarization, free trade agreements, transnational corporate (TNC) control over electricity supply, pension funds and phone services, and worsening social and ecological conflicts. Plan Puebla Panamá further entails mega-projects which will tap out the country’s remaining natural resources.
