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Business interests have hijacked the UN food systems summit
Small farmers, social movements and human rights are being elbowed out, says Kirtana Chandrasekaran.
COVID-19 measures must ensure Human Rights and build the resilient, sustainable food system we desperately need
Statement to the Extraordinary Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers, 21 April 2020: As the COVID-19 health emergency unleashes a wider social and economic crisis, we believe that urgent action is indeed needed to safeguard global food security and nutrition. Action, however, cannot be limited to ensuring the flow of food supplies. A broader range of…
Agroecology recognized by experts at UN as the transformative solution for a food system in crisis
Civil society representatives from around the world successfully put agroecology on the agenda of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, as the truly innovative pathway to resolving environmental, hunger, health and inequality crises, and ensuring the right to food. This year’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 14-18 October in Rome, was held…
Agroecology: innovating for sustainable food systems and agriculture
Industrial food production contributes heavily towards climate change, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources – and in so…
It’s time to mobilize for a new international energy system that works for people and planet
In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its landmark 1.5 degrees report – likely to simultaneously communicate the terrible dangers and impacts of letting average global temperature rise exceed 1.5 degrees, while warning that drastic systemic change on a scale never seen before will be needed to prevent these temperature rises.…
At UN climate talks, end coal and commit to people-centred energy system
Bonn, 3 November 2017: Ahead of the UN climate talks (6-17 November) – hosted by Fiji but opening next week in Bonn, Germany – Friends of the Earth International will join BUND/Friends of the Earth Germany and thousands of activists in a demonstration of ‘people power’ calling for an urgent coal phase out in Germany…
Feeding our peoples and building the movement to change the world
Declarations from La Via Campesina, VII International Conference “Peasants, men and women, all over the world feed our peoples, without them cultivating the land we would not have food. Friends of the Earth International joins La Via Campesina’s struggle in defence of food sovereignty. We aim to tear down the walls and the advance of…
Why we need to stand as one globally to combat climate change
2017 has seen a succession of devastating hurricanes, flooding in Asia, wildfires raging around the world, including in Greenland, an anthrax outbreak in Siberia, and ice shelf collapses. This is a planetary emergency. The Paris agreement as it stands, allows for at least three to four degrees of warming. Yet the devastating natural disasters of…
In solidarity with those affected by recent hurricanes and disasters caused by the neoliberal capitalist system
Climate Justice for Latin America, the Caribbean and peoples of the world. Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean – ATALC – is deeply saddened by the ongoing disasters experienced by people affected by the climate crisis. Hurricane Irma and the destruction it wreaked in several countries in the region, as well as other…
Global Climate Justice Movements Refuse to Be Overshadowed by Election of Climate Change Denier to U.S. Presidency
We the undersigned organisations, networks, and movements gathered in Marrakech at COP22 issue the following collective statement in support of communities and movements around the world in response to Donald Trump becoming President-Elect of the United States of America and its potentially devastating implications for the cause of climate justice. Record breaking global temperatures are…
