A new report details how Harvard University, retirement fund manager TIAA, and U.S. agribusiness trader Bunge Limited are fueling land grabbing and ecocide in the Brazilian Cerrado.
As our climate crisis intensifies and more than half of Americans suffer from diet-related disease, California’s school nutrition service staff have heeded the urgent call to make school food healthier and more climate-friendly.
The release of live genetically engineered microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment.
Iconic ecosystems are regions or habitats that are globally recognized for their ecological significance & cultural or historical importance.
Indigenous and community lands and forests are associated with lower rates of deforestation and overall better biodiversity conservation.
Marine and coastland ecosystems are crucial for sustaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and preserving community livelihoods.
Six months after the UN Biodiversity Conference, 74 civil society organizations call on financial institutions to protect biodiversity and take action in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework Six months since its adoption, banks and financiers have yet to develop concrete plans to implement…
How Development Bank Investments in Industrial Livestock Are at Odds With Their Paris Agreement Commitments Download the executive summary Download the report Read the Inside Climate News story and our op-ed This report, authored by Friends of the Earth on behalf of the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign, and endorsed by eighteen civil society organizations, argues that multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) investments…
This case study, based on a detailed report, documents significant historical & current negative impacts of PRONACA’s factory farms.
The report examines the impacts of PRONACA’s factory farms and slaughterhouses on the natural resources and local and Indigenous communities of the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, west of Ecuador’s capitol, Quito.