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Letter to GCF Board on operationalizing country ownership

Letter to the GCF Board on operationalizing country ownership through establishing a floor for direct access (50% by 2018, 75% by 2020)

The People’s Budget

An outline for a more just and sustainable America

2014 Annual Report

Growing Bee-Friendly Garden Plants: Profiles in Innovation

This report provides examples of wholesale nurseries, retailers and institutions that are responding to consumer demand to protect bees.

Exploitation and Empty Promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian land grab

Nigeria is a key frontier country for palm oil expansion. Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in southeastern Nigeria, and the company plans to expand its Nigerian land bank to hundreds of thousands of hectares.

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.

The Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions of U.S. Federal Fossil Fuels

This report was undertaken to facilitate a better understanding of the consequences of future federal fossil fuel leasing and extraction in the context of domestic and global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change

Chain Reaction: How top restaurants rate on reducing use of antibiotics in their meat supply

A report by Friends of the Earth and other public interest groups shows that America’s top chain restaurants that serve up a huge portion of the nation’s meat are doing little to help fix the growing public health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

Extreme genetic engineering and the human future: reclaiming emerging biotechnologies for the common good

Recent research in genetic engineering and “synthetic biology” and how has enabled scientists to artificially redesign life -- everything from microbes to people.

Up in Smoke: Failures in Wilmar’s promise to clean up the palm oil business

This report shows that global palm oil companies Bumitama Agri and Wilmar International, backed by major U.S. and European investors, have created conditions that have allowed Indonesia’s devastating forest fires to burn out of control.