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Agroecology in Cuba: learning how to change the system
A delegation from Friends of the Earth International was present at the 7th International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism in Cuba, 17-23 November 2019, organised by the National Association of Small Farmers of Cuba (ANAP), member of La Via Campesina. This was the first time representatives from all regions of the federation gathered…
We have a decision to make: Change the system or face climate catastrophe
Finally, it seems that the urgency of the climate crisis has become impossible for decision-makers — especially in the global North — to ignore. In the past few months, hundreds of local governments as well as a handful of national governments in the global North have declared a climate emergency. Make no mistake — this…
Change the system or face global ecological collapse says global biodiversity assessment
6 May 2019, Paris: The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global biodiversity assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) The IPBES report is the most comprehensive scientific global assessment on biodiversity and…
Report “Transform: how we’re making deep and lasting change”
Friends of the Earth International’s pathways to system change. System change is a powerful idea and a political struggle for…
Ambitious work to transform food systems and agriculture in the US
Friends of the Earth United States is working to transform agriculture in the US and their food systems— from toxic and chemical intensive to healthy and ecologically regenerative; from corporate controlled to democratically governed; and from a system that embodies the deepest inequities in society to one that advances justice and fulfills the needs of…
How our Internationalist Solidarity System responds to attacks on Defenders of Territories
An interview with Loreto de Amunategui, Internationalist Solidarity System Officer, on Human Rights Day 2022. What does “internationalist solidarity” mean concretely, and how does it link to environmental justice? Solidarity means standing up against all forms of oppression – such as patriarchy, racism and colonialism – and the various forms of violence which rob people…
The first 50 years: From resistance to transformation. How we make change.
Part 2: How we make change The second in a two-part series marking Friends of the Earth International’s first 50 years in 2021. In Part 1 we looked at key moments in Friends of the Earth International’s history and at how our understanding of our mission has become firmly rooted in environmental justice and the…
Empty words, hollow promises, and false solutions ring loud at Bonn conference on climate change
Once again, as world leaders are gathered for the Bonn conference on climate change, we have wasted another opportunity to take climate action. Civil Society Organisations express their anger and disappointment at the empty words and hollow discussions that continue to push the world, especially the Global South further towards climate catastrophe. Closing comments from…
Characteristics of false solutions to the biodiversity and related systemic crises
Although proposed solutions to the climate and biodiversity and other interrelated crises abound, sadly few are viable. Analysis of these…
UN Food Systems summit a sham
Civil society boycotting summit calls for true food systems transformation. From 26 to 28 July in Rome the United Nations will hold a Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), a pre-cursor to a VIP New York summit in September 2021. The summit claims it will provide “game-changing” solutions for the transformation of food systems through its “open…
