Jeff Conant

Jeff Conant directs Friends of the Earth’s International Forests Program, which works to halt the destruction of tropical forests and defend the rights of forest-dependent peoples. The program campaigns to reform public policy, drive change in financial markets and big agribusiness, and support frontline partners in Brazil, Indonesia, West Africa and elsewhere to address the economic drivers of land grabbing and tropical forest destruction. Prior to Friends of the Earth, Jeff was Communications Director with Global Justice Ecology Project where he advocated for climate justice at the U.N. and other global arenas. As a consultant with International Accountability Project he co-authored a Community Action Guide to the Asian Development Bank (2013). With Hesperian Health Guides he coordinated and co-authored A Community Guide to Environmental Health (2008), a comprehensive, low-literacy educational resource published in over a dozen languages. Jeff is also author of A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency (AK Press, 2010), and translator of Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine (North Atlantic Books, 2000). When not campaigning, organizing or writing he may be found parenting, permaculture gardening, beekeeping, baking or biking.

Friends of the Earth: Sowing the Seeds of a Tropical Village Economy in the Mountains of Sumatra
Friends of the Earth: Financial Incentives To Slow Deforestation Are Helpful – But Public Policies To Stop It Are Essential
Friends of the Earth: Chronicle of a Palm Oil Ecocide
Earth Island Journal: Crisis Among the Palms: How Your Retirement Fund May be Fueling Rainforest Destruction
Inter Press Service News: To Defend the Environment, Support Social Movements like Berta Caceres and COPINH
Truthout: What the Zapatistas Can Teach Us About Climate Change