Friends of the Earth International - english feed
The website of Friends of the Earth International - the world's largest grassroot's environmental network
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the world trade system: how it works and what’s wrong with it
- Friends of the Earth International, August 2003: This report offers a deep analysis of the current drive to liberalise trade promotes inequality, is undemocratic, and degrades the environment, social structures and cultural diversity. Critically, the underlying principles on which the free trade system is based are fundamentally flawed. The present trading system promotes the free movement of goods, services and capital as a goal in itself, rather than ensuring that such international trade promotes sustainable and equitable development.
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Playing with Hunger: The reality behind the shipment of GMOs as food aid
- Friends of the Earth International, July 2003: A controversy over genetically modified (GM) food aid arose in 2000 and grew increasingly in 2002, when several Southern African countries refused GM food aid during a food crisis. African countries were presented with a false choice of either accepting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or watch- ing people starve. This situation, where GM food aid was presented often as the only solution to hunger was advanced primarily by the US which is also aggressively marketing Genetically Modified (GM) crops in developing countries.
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Stop playing with hunger! - factsheet
- Friends of the Earth International, June 2003: The US Government is promoting GM crops as the primary solution to improving food security and solving hunger in developing countries. The US Administration and biotech corporations will be strongly promoting GM crops at the Ministerial. Friends of the Earth opposes the Bush administration position on this issue, and is calling on all Governments attending the Ministerial to challenge US and corporate pressure to accept and promote GM food. This paper exposes the problems around the shipment of US GM food aid to developing countries and the hypocrisy behind the US Government argument that GM crops are needed to solve hunger in Africa.
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water for life and livelihoods: briefing paper
- Friends of the Earth International, March 2003: This report is a detailed observation of the worlds growing crisis concerning fresh drinking water.
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Summary of OED Draft Review of the World Bank Group’s Activities in the Extractive Industries: Factoring in Governance
- Friends of the Earth International, January 2003: This report offers a devastating critique of the Bank’s basic strategy in the extractive industries in most of the countries in which it operates. If implemented, OED’s recommendations would require a radical transformation of the Bank’s current operations in the extractive industries.
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water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water
- Friends of the Earth International, January 2003: This report highlights the inequities in the way that water is consumed around the world.
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GMO contamination around the world - Second Edition
- Friends of the Earth International, August 2002: This booklet addresses some of the challenges that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pose to all countries. It describes several cases of contamination of our fields and the human food chain by a variety of GMOs not authorized or unregulated under many regulatory frameworks in countries around the world. Finally, it contains a brief summary of different testing methods available to monitor for the presence of GMOs.
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'europe says ‘no’ to gmos'
- Friends of the Earth International, December 2001: Since the 1990s, there has been growing public concern in Europe about the impact that GM crops will have on both the environment and public health. Environmental and consumer organizations, doctors, scientists, food processors and retailers, farmers, landowners, development agencies and the majority of European citizens have increasingly raised their concerns.
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Protect yourself from destructive development: Handbook on JBIC's New Environmental and Social Guidelines
- Mekong Watch & Friends of the Earth Japan, 2004: In developing countries today, there are many dams, power plants, irrigation systems, roads, pipelines, and other large infrastructure projects being built. Unfortunately, these projects sometimes cause problems for people who live near them, or they destroy the environment. Sometimes people lose their homes and land and must move to other places. Sometimes people lose their traditional ways of life when their environments are destroyed. Sometimes the projects damage people's health. Some of these projects are financed by the Japanese government, and more specifically, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation ( JBIC). JBIC is the bank that the Japanese government uses to give loans to governments in developing countries. JBIC also helps Japanese companies that are involved in development projects. The purpose of this guide is to give you information about two tools you may want to use if you are worried about projects financed by JBIC, or projects that may be financed by JBIC in the future.
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The European Investment Bank: Invisible power in the European Union - factsheet 1
- The EIB Campaign Coalition coordinated by CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth International 2003: The European Investment Bank (EIB) is one of the largest existing international financing institutions, with project lending larger than that of the World Bank.
