Agroecology can serve as a pivotal strategy to achieve a number of crucial EU policy objectives, including reverting biodiversity collapse, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing pesticide use. Together with 25 other organisations, we outline how to bring agroecological principles into policies governing EU food systems.
Generation unknown: exposing the truth behind the new generation of GMOs
As Europe’s farming sector faces up to the combined challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and an increasingly globalised market, a new generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is being portrayed as a magical solution. Some have suggested that these new genetically modified crops, animals and microbes should be exempt from GMO safety legislation, introduced …
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Public development banks: stop financing industrial agriculture
As around 450 financial institutions around the world meet for the world’s first ‘summit’ of public development banks, we joined 70+ NGOs to call on them to stop financing corporate agribusiness and plantations, and instead fund agroecology and local food systems to help fight the climate crisis.
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Demanding more transparency in CAP trilogues
Together with over 20 other NGOs, we wrote to the European Parliament, Commission and Council to ask for increased transparency around final negotiations on the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. The EU’s flagship food and farming policy will account for €387bn of public money until 2027, and is of critical importance for Europe’s success in addressing …
EU-Mercosur: Deal with climate change, not climate deniers
FoE Europe and Jordens Vänner call for the EU to halt the destructive EU-Mercosur deal and overhaul EU trade policy.
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Tackling energy poverty through National Energy and Climate Plans : priority or empty promise?
This analysis of national plans, policies and measures in six Central and Eastern European countries, reveals inadequate action to tackle energy poverty. The report, prepared with Climate Action Network Europe and NGOs and researchers across Europe, finds that Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have failed to provide a clear definition of energy poverty …
