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Paraguay: the human cost of soy: Local farmers tell their stories of living with the devastating effects of soy cultivation in Paraguay.
meat and forest products consumption fuel inequalities in global land use: NEW REPORT: Europe and United States import millions of hectares of virtual land BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / LONDON (UK), October 10, 2011 – More than 60 per cent ...
Food Crisis Talks: Governments Should Scrap Biofuels, Not Push GM Crops: 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 ...
Lords of the Land: Analysis of Land Grabbing in Mozambique: Friends of the Earth Mozambique and the National Farmers Union of Mozambique, March 2011: This report uses case studies to analyse the practice of land ...
community based forest governance: Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Human civilization has played a role in forest destruction for millennia. However, in the recent decades this ...
Green schemes for biofuel crops set to fail: Attempts to use certification schemes to reduce the widespread environmental and social problems caused by growing crops for fuels and animal feeds are bound ...
EU warned: biofuels will drive biodiversity loss: Increasing the use of biofuels in Europe will have devastating impacts on wildlife a new scientific assessment has shown.
palm oil advert misleading: Friends of the Earth International has welcomed a ruling today by the UK advertising watchdog that describing palm oil as “sustainably produced” is false ...
Africa: up for grabs: Friends of the Earth Europe and Africa, August 2010: The African continent is increasingly being seen as a source of agricultural land and natural resources ...
Complaint to the ASA about Malaysian Palm Oil Council: June 2009, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland's: A complaint to the Advertising Standards Association (ASA) on the Malaysian Palm Oil ...
Agrofuels cartoons: Friends of the Earth Brazil commissioned a collection of 15 cartoons taking a comic look at ‘sustainable agrofuels’. The cartoons were produced in ...
Jatropha: wonder crop? - Experience from Swaziland: Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland / Swaziland, May 2009: Local non-government organisations (NGOs) have raised concerns about the social ...
the agrofuels debate in africa: challenges and opportunities: Friends of the Earth Nigeria, November 2008: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods.
Losing the plot: Jatropha in India: Friends of the Earth Europe, January 2010: As India’s economy has grown, its energy demand has increased rapidly and the Indian government has looked to ...
the jatropha trap? the realities of farming jatropha in mozambique: Friends of the Earth International, September 2010: In Mozambique, the debate on agrofuels has advanced steadily over the last five years, fueled by industry ...
Europe's demand for palm oil driving deforestation and land-grabbing: Friends of the Earth Europe/Netherlands, March 2010: One of the leading suppliers of "green" palm oil to Europe is causing illegal encroachment upon Indonesian ...
Position paper: plantations are not forests: Friends of the Earth International, July 2010: Tree plantations are not forests. They are a monoculture which causes huge impacts throughout the world. ...
fertile resistance in agrobiodiversity: Friends of the Earth International, August 2002: Local communities defending agrobiodiversity against gmos and agrobusiness.
featured video: the agrofuels myth: Can agrofuels ever be a sustainable solution for the current energy and climate crises? This video brings you the voices of communities and campaigners around ...
Jatropha: Exposing the New Threats to Africa's Agriculture: Friends of the Earth Ghana held an event on May 28, 2009, condemning the procurement of African lands by foreign companies for the production of the 'wonder ...
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ‘sustainably’ - Summary: An analysis of proposals to intensify agriculture
The Meso American Forum against Agribusiness, El Salvador: This June the first Forum Against Agribusiness and for the Peoples’ Sovereignty of Meso America, was held in El Salvador over two days. The forum reached the ...
featured video: the agrofuels myth: Can agrofuels ever be a sustainable solution for the current energy and climate crises? This video brings you the voices of communities and campaigners around ...
European crimes face Latin American trial: Environmental and human rights violations committed by European companies in Latin America are being examined at a people's tribunal in Lima, Peru this week ...
GM crops increase pesticides: A new report released on February 13th shows that planting genetically modified (GM) crops is causing an increased use of harmful pesticides in major biotech ...
Biodiversity Plan of Inaction Condemned: BONN (GERMANY), May 30, 2008 -- Friends of the Earth International expressed its alarm at the failure of the latest United Nations Convention of Biological ...
World Forests Rapidly Disappearing: ROME, ITALY, MARCH 16 -- In a reaction to the alarming data released today in the 2009 State of the World’s Forests report by the UN Food and Agricultural ...
world bank accused of promoting land grabbing: WASHINGTON, US, April 27, 2010 – Friends of the Earth International warned today that voluntary principles on land acquisitions announced by the World Bank and ...
The Meso American Forum against Agribusiness, El Salvador: This June the first Forum Against Agribusiness and for the Peoples’ Sovereignty of Meso America, was held in El Salvador over two days. The forum reached the ...
Harvesting Harm: Agrofuels as a False Solution to Climate Change and Poverty: Friends of the Earth International, August 2008: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is now actively pursuing agrofuels as a clean energy and development ...

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