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Forests and biodiversity
Friends of the Earth International and member group publications on plantations, forests and climate change and agrofuels.
Friends of the Earth International’s position paper on the financialization of nature
Friends of the Earth International opposes different forms of the commoditization and privatization of biodiversity. Today we are witnessing...
27 November, 2014Traps and Dangers of REDD and other Forest Conservation Projects Precautionary guide for communities
For some years now, forests and fields have been full of lawyers and businessmen offering deals with communities to...
27 October, 2014Financialization and biodiversity
Today we are witnessing a new wave of privatization through the implementation of financial mechanisms. The financialization of nature...
21 October, 2014The great REDD gamble
Governments around the world are recklessly betting that a risky method called REDD, or ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and...
09 October, 2014Civil society organizations’ open letter to the FAO on World Forest Day
Civil society organizations' open letter to the FAO on World Forest Day
21 March, 2014From policy to reality: ‘Sustainable’ tropical timber production, trade and procurement
The establishment of various policies on ‘sustainable’ and ‘legal’ timber production, importation and procurement around the world today has...
10 October, 2013Nature is not for sale
An overview of what happens when you treat nature as a commodity, who is responsible and why it needs...
01 June, 2012In the REDD
This report was researched by campaigners in Friends of the Earth Australia who visited Indonesia to examine the Kalimantan...
03 December, 2011For the land that feeds us
This publication has several aims, from highlighting the role that peasant women and men, indigenous people, and young people...
12 July, 201140 years of struggles and successes
Forty years is a long time to struggle and struggles can sometimes seem endless when we are in the...
12 June, 2011