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Forests need proper definition, NGOs tell FAO
MEDIA ADVISORY, 27 March, 2014 -- La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, Focus on the Global South,...
27 March, 2014Bold U.N. right to food report ‘the only recipe for hunger eradication’
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, March 10, 2014 – Friends of the Earth International commended a groundbreaking report presented today by the...
10 March, 2014UN land crisis report: high demand creating hunger and environmental destruction
DAVOS (SWITZERLAND) / LONDON (UK), 24 January 2014 – Commenting on a key United Nations report on global land...
24 January, 2014Liberia spending too little on agriculture
Civil society raises concerns on prioritization of land allocation to foreign investors and insufficient public agricultural budget MONROVIA (LIBERIA),...
12 September, 2013European investments assist land grabs in Liberia
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / MONROVIA (LIBERIA), June 24, 2013 - European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given...
24 June, 2013Governments urged to limit weed killer found in humans
WASHINGTON DC / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) June 17, 2013 – Friends of the Earth International today urged governments around the...
17 June, 2013European banks and pension funds fuel land grabs in Uganda
KAMPALA (UGANDA) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) May 21, 2013 – European banks and pension funds are funding palm oil giant...
21 May, 2013Land 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...
01 February, 2013Investors 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...
30 November, 2012Food crisis talks: governments should scrap biofuels, not push gm crops
ROME (ITALY) / LONDON (UK), October 16, 2012 – As Governments gather in Rome today, World Food Day, to...
16 October, 2012