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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. ...
Nyeleni Forum for Food Sovereignty 2007: The report of the Forum for Food Sovereignty held in February 2007 in Nyeleni, Mali: The Forum For Food Sovereignty, was an opportunity for people who ...
fertile resistance in forests: Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement, August 2002: This report talks about local communities around the world defending forest ...
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ‘sustainably’ - Summary: An analysis of proposals to intensify agriculture
2010 BIODIVERSITY YEAR: URGENT ACTION NEEDED: SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, January 11, 2010 – Commenting on today’s announcement by the United Nations that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity and that ...
TREE PLANTATIONS CAUSE GRAVE PROBLEMS: COSTA RICA, September 21st, 2010 – Today Friends of the Earth International celebrates the international day against tree plantations, a yearly event aimed at ...
Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit: MONROVIA, LIBERIA, February 1st, 2013 – Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of ...
'CERTIFIED' PALM OIL NOT A SOLUTION: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA November 3, 2009 -- Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm ...
new stories about tree plantations and women: Three new case studies and a video on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil were released on Sunday 8 ...
Sumatrian Forest Carbon Deal slammed by FoE Australia and Indonesia: Friends of the Earth Australia and WAHLI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) have come out strongly in opposition to the new Australian-Indonesian Forest Carbon ...
world forests rapidly disappearing: In a reaction to an alarming report on the state of the world’s forests by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Friends of the Earth International ...
policy, practice, pride and prejudice: Friends of the Earth Netherlands, July 2007: Review of legal, environmental and social practices of oil palm plantation companies of the Wilmar Group in ...
European Transnationals Accused of Rights Violations in Latin America: Madrid, Spain, May 12, 2010 – On the eve of the May 18 Europe-Latin America and Caribbean Summit, Friends of the Earth International and other organizations ...
Nature is not for sale: An overview of what happens when you treat nature as a commodity, who is responsible and why it needs to stop. Also available in French and Spanish on the ...
public warned over 'Green Soy' scam: CAMPINAS (BRAZIL), BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), 27 May 2009 - A new initiative to re-brand the intensive and damaging farming of soy as 'responsible' is nothing short ...
Land, life and justice: How land grabbing in Uganda is affecting the environment, livelihoods and food sovereignty of communities
Halt to Palm Oil Investments Welcomed: Jakarta, Indonesia, September 11, 2009 -- Friends of the Earth International welcomed the announcement by the IFC, the World Bank's private sector arm, that it ...
January: Palm oil advert misleading: Friends of the Earth International's official complaint to the UK Advertising Standards Agency about a palm oil advert was fully upheld on 9 January 2008.
Negative impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women: March 8 - Three new case studies and a video on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil have been released ...
brazil: building the struggle against monocultures: The ongoing expansion of exotic tree monocultures in the Brazilian Pampas, and the Pampas plains of Uruguay and Argentina, threatens the region’s biodiversity ...
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?: An analysis of the ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture
Position paper: community rights: Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Community rights are the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples. These are ancestral and collective ...
Women raise their voices against tree plantations: Friends of the Earth International, March 2009: The role of the European Union in disempowering women in the South.
TREE PLANTATIONS ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION: COSTA RICA, 21 September 2011 – Today, Friends of the Earth International, together with many social movements around the world, are celebrating the ...