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GMO Apple Fact Sheet
Genetically engineered apples: Any way you slice it, a rotten idea
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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)
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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.
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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 co…
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Spinning 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.
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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 dangerou…
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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 grow…
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Extreme Genetic Engineering and the Human Future
Recent research in genetic engineering and “synthetic biology” and how has enabled scientists to artificially redesign life — everything from microbes to people.
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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 devastatin…