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International Peasants’ Day: join the food sovereignty revolution

17 April 2016

Today is the 20th anniversary of the International Day of Peasants' and Farmers' Struggle – a date highlighting the persecution and violence suffered by peasants and farmers around the world.

4 February 2015

EU-US trade deal threatens food safety

The trade agreement being negotiated between the US and EU threatens public health, consumer rights and animal welfare standards, shows new analysis today by food and trade experts.

9 January 2014

NEW REPORT: International ‘Meat atlas’

How overconsumption and intensive meat production wrecks the planet

Intensive meat and dairy production is having an increasingly devastating impact on society and the environment, according to a new 'Meat Atlas' published today by Friends of the Earth Europe and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

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- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- Climate justice
  Genuine, just solutions to climate change
- Energy savings
  Energy efficiency and its benefits
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Renewable energy
  Clean alternatives to fossil fuels
- Shale gas
  Unconventional oil and gas, and the ‘fracking’ process
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil, also known as oil sands
- The Big Ask
  European climate campaign for annual emissions cuts

- Conflicts of interest
  Differing and competing interests in the EU institutions
- Corporate accountability
  Making companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
- Corporate capture
  When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
- Deregulation
  The weakening of vital protections to please big business
- EU-US trade deal
  What’s at stake in negotiations for a transatlantic trade agreement
- Greenwashing
  Company advertising at odds with real environmental impacts
- Lobby transparency
  Lobby registration, ethical practice, and access to documents

- Banking regulation
  Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe

- Agriculture
  Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
- Agrofuels
  Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
- EU-US trade deal
  What’s at stake in negotiations for a transatlantic trade agreement
- Food speculation
  Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Land
  Measuring Europe’s land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
- Materials and waste
  Reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Resource use
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon
- Shale gas
  Unconventional oil and gas, and the ‘fracking’ process
- Tar sands
  Unconventional oil, also known as oil sands
- Water use
  Measuring Europe’s water footprint

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International Peasants’ Day: join the food sovereignty revolution

EU-US trade deal threatens food safety

NEW REPORT: International ‘Meat atlas’

How overconsumption and intensive meat production wrecks the planet