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Agrofuels explained
Governments from the North and South together with International Financial Institutions have been actively promoting agrofuels, to the detriment of people and the environment, while promoting transnational corporate interests. The problem Rising oil prices coupled with the need to cut down the energy dependency of most industrialized countries from politically unstable oil producing countries, has…
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.…
Agrofuels cartoons
Friends of the Earth Brazil commissioned a collection of 15 cartoons taking a comic look at ‘sustainable agrofuels’. The cartoons…
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.
Fuelling destruction in latin america – the real price of agrofuels
This report looks at current and proposed developments in a number of Southern and Central American countries, all of which…
Real price of agrofuels revealed
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / PORTO ALLEGRE, BRAZIL / MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 10 September 2008 — The rapid development of agrofuels in Latin America looks set to increase big business profits but it is not benefiting local people, according to a new report released by Friends of the Earth International. The new report – ‘Fuelling Destruction in Latin…
Harvesting Harm: Agrofuels as a False Solution to Climate Change and Poverty
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is now actively pursuing agrofuels as a clean energy and development strategy. But recent research…
Banks financing agrofuels
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, 19 May, 2008 – Many major European banks are funding the rapid expansion of agrofuel production in Latin America, leading to large scale deforestation, increasing human right abuses and threatening food sovereignty, according to a new report released today. [1] Friends of the Earth International PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2008…
Paris agreement comes into force
On Friday 4 November, just days before the UN climate talks open in Marrakech, the Paris Agreement comes into force. Friends of the Earth International reiterates its concern that without greater ambition and more urgency the Paris Agreement will fail to deliver the scale of fair and drastic action needed to prevent dangerous climate change.…
Dirty energy in Africa
Dirty energy not only fuels dangerous climate change but also causes immense harm to people, communities, workers and the environment,…
