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Unsustainable Investment II

This report examines how IFC-financed industrial livestock projects contribute to biodiversity loss, pollution, and overuse of water and energy resources—despite IFC’s own environmental safeguards…
Agroecology and Public Development Banks

This scoping study explores how public development banks (PDBs) shape global food systems and how they could instead support agroecology and more just, resilient food futures.
Stop Factory Farm Financing Coalition Annual Report 2025

Our work is shaped through collaboration and shared responsibility rather than a single central institution, enabling a collective effort that underpins everything that follows.
Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions

Roasting the Planet, a new report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, reveals the colossal, yet often overlooked, cli…
Stop Factory Farm Financing: Annual Report 2024

A visual look at the Stop Factory Farm Financing coalition’s campaign in 2024 — highlighting actions and reports.
Social and Environmental Practices in IDB Invest Investments in Guatemala

Social and environmental practices in IDB Invest investments in Guatemala: Case study of the Los Pensamientos Poultry Farm/CMI Alimentos
Unsustainable Investment

A case study from Friends of the Earth U.S. examines the negative environmental and social impacts of a 2022 $275M loan by International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Industrial Livestock Production: Climate-Related Financial Risks

Global food systems account for more than one third of the world’s GHG emissions, with meat, dairy and animal feed production accounting for 60% of this amount.
A Brown Cloud Over the Golden State

The report, based on interviews with residents, government data and past studies, focuses on Tulare County, the home of one third of California’s dairy cows and 11% of manure digesters in the U.S.
Making a Bad Situation Worse: Manure Digesters at Mega Dairies in Wisconsin

The report documents the harmful community impacts associated with the rapid growth of anaerobic digesters in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.