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Food and Farming: Time to Choose! Campaign for Sustainable Farming and Food
- Friends of the Earth Europe: Current food and farming policies do notdeliver healthy food. Our soils, air and water are polluted by intensive agriculture. The ...
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The impact of GM corn in Spain
- Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace, August 2003: This report aims to provide some independent data on the most controversial GM crop in the European ...
- Investors must stop land grabbing, say civil society groups
- LONDON (UK), November 30, 2012 – Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, say civil society groups [1] on ...
- Organic farming dwarves GM crops in Europe as public rejection hits biotech firms
- Public resistance to genetically modified crops has ensured that the area grown in Europe in 2011 remained at 0.1 per cent of all arable land, shows figures ...
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Changing the future of the world’s poor?
- Friends of the Earth Australia, September 2003: This discussion paper uses the agreed principles and objectives of the Millennium Development Goals as ...
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Gathering Storm: the human cost of climate change
- Friends of the Earth International, September 2000: As long as governments ignore the dangers posed by human-induced climate change, people will be exposed to ...
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Our environment, our rights: standing up for people and the planet
- Friends of the Earth International, August 2004: This report details the ties between the environment and human rights and why FoEI is committed as a network ...
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The impact of climate change on small island states
- Friends of the Earth Australia, June 2003: Although Pacific island nations are responsible for only 0.06% of global greenhouse gas emissions, they are ...
- We can feed the planet and save the world
- LONDON (UK), November 11, 2009 -- We can produce enough food for everyone without intensifying farming while saving the planet from climate change and forest ...
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Who benefits from GM crops? 2008 executive summary
- Biotechnology proponents claim that genetically modified (GM) crops are good for consumers, farmers and the environment, and that they are growing in ...
- Public pressure halts gm trials in Castellón, Spain
- Friends of the Earth Spain celebrates the suspension of GM trials with human genes after mass mobilisations by the general public.
- GM CROPS FEED BIOTECH GIANTS ONLY
- Brussels (Belgium) / Montevideo (Uruguay) / Washington (US), February 10, 2009 – Friends of the Earth International warned today that biotech crops are ...
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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 ...
- The role of women in the struggle for food sovereignty
- Indigenous, peasant and rural women play an extremely important role in the struggle for food sovereignty. They are being increasingly recognised for this. The ...
- The agroecology approach to agriculture
- Agroecology is an approach to agriculture and food systems development based on traditional knowledge, alternative agriculture, and local food system ...
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Land, life and justice
- How land grabbing in Uganda is affecting the environment, livelihoods and food sovereignty of communities
- Corporations threaten biotech talks
- A last minute attempt by six biotech giants to undermine international negotiations on biotech crops was condemned today by environmental group Friends of the ...
- Banks Financing Agrofuels
- Many major European banks are funding the rapid expansion of agrofuel production in Latin America, leading to large scale deforestation, increasing human right ...
- European Commission gives green light to genetically modified potatoes
- A decision by Europe's new health and consumer commissioner, John Dalli, to give the go ahead for genetically modified potatoes to be grown in Europe, has been ...
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- In the last years hundreds of organizations and movements have been engaged in struggles, activities, and various kinds of work to defend and promote the right ...
- Why are the FAO and the EBRD promoting the destruction of peasant and family farming?
- Food Sovereignty Program highlights in 2008
- In 2008, FoEI’s Food Sovereignty Program contributed effectively to the implementation of the agenda agreed by the food sovereignty movement at the Nyeleni ...
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Farming money
- Friends of the Earth Europe, January 2012: How European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on ...
- European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
- European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer ...
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Food not fuel: agrofuels, food prices and hunger
- This briefing gives a summary of how agrofuels impact food prices and what this means for the world’s poorest people.
- Detective Pig investigates 'responsible' soy
- Detective Pig investigates soy production in South America and finds out the truth behind a new label for 'responsible' soy. This label will be launched on the ...
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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
- An analysis of the ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture
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For the land that feeds us
- Friends of the Earth International, July 2011: Struggles and achievements in building food sovereignty and local diversity. This publication has several aims, ...
- Complaint filed against misleading Malaysian Palm Oil Council advert
- Friends of the Earth International have filed a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about an internet banner advert of the Malaysian Palm Oil ...
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who benefits from GM Crops? 2008: The rise in pesticide use
- Friends of the Earth International, 2008: Biotechnology proponents claim that genetically modified (GM) crops are good for consumers, farmers and the ...
