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New Roundup, New Risks
Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before. Read More
Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes: Risks and Concerns
The release of live genetically engineered microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment. Read More
Agricultural Carbon Markets, Payments, and Data: Big Ag’s Latest Power Grab
A report from Friends of the Earth and Open Markets Institute reveals how this approach will fail to address the climate crisis while enabling the largest agribusiness corporations to entrench their market power and greenwash their operations. Read More
Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide
Like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, pesticide companies spend millions on deceitful strategies to keep their hazardous products unregulated. Read More
Economic Policy Campaign: Position Paper
Mega-mergers in many sectors — from finance to agriculture to technology — have increased corporate power and control, both in economic and political terms. Today, corporations have a stronger electoral voice than ever and greater lobbying power. Read More
Bayer-Monsanto Merger: Big Data, Big Agriculture, Big Problems
If Bayer and Monsanto are allowed to complete their proposed $66 billion merger, the economics of food, farming and the environment will be radically altered. Competition in agriculture will never be the same. Read More
Farming for the Future: Organic and Agroecological Solutions to Feed the World
Farming for the Future details the science that demonstrates that organic and agroecological farming are fundamental to feeding all people, now and into the future. Read More
Spinning Food: How food industry front groups and covert communications are shaping the story of food
The industrial food and agricultural sector spent hundreds of millions of dollars from 2009 to 2013 on communications efforts to spin the media, drive consumer behavior and advance its policy agenda. Read More