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Gates foundation-led green revolution promotes false solutions to hunger in Africa
Friends of the Earth International warns against damaging industrial farming promoted by the Gates Foundation at the Agricultural Green...
25 September, 2012Opposition to biotech giant Monsanto growing worldwide, new report shows
APRIL 4, 2012, WASHINGTON (US) / MONTEVIDEO (URUGUAY), PARIS (FRANCE), – Today, the day that biotech giant Monsanto (NYSE:...
04 April, 2012Climate talks: sustainable, small-scale, and peasant agriculture needed to cool down the earth
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 5 December 2011-- The UN climate talks in Durban have reminded the world that agriculture is...
05 December, 2011Meat and forest products consumption fuel inequalities in global land use
NEW REPORT: Europe and United States import millions of hectares of virtual land BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / LONDON (UK), October...
10 October, 2011Tree plantations are the problem, not the solution
COSTA RICA, 21 September 2011 – Today, Friends of the Earth International, together with many social movements around the...
21 September, 2011Friends of the Earth International conference on hunger and agribusiness in Africa
DURBAN, SOUTH-AFRICA, July 15, 2011 – Friends of the Earth International is hosting a two-day conference on the threats...
15 July, 2011Stop farm land grabbing – hundreds of civil society groups call on the G20
PARIS, MONTEVIDEO, LONDON, June 20, 2011: Today, in advance of the G20 Agriculture Ministers meeting in Paris on June...
20 June, 2011Cracks widen in biotech industry myths
AMSTERDAM / BRUSSELS / MONTEVIDEO / BENIN CITY, 22 February 2011 - Governments are being forced to protect farmers...
22 February, 2011Biofuel “wonder-crop” jatropha fails to deliver
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)/ABUJA (NIGERIA) January 21, 2011 – The much-touted biofuel crop jatropha is neither a profitable nor a sustainable...
21 January, 2011Tree plantations cause grave problems
COSTA RICA, September 21st, 2010 – Today Friends of the Earth International celebrates the international day against tree plantations,...
21 September, 2010