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EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies – What to look out for

18/05/2020

The EU Farm to Fork strategy is a set of proposed legislative and voluntary actions as part of the European Green Deal with the stated aim to make EU food “the global standard for sustainability”. The EU Biodiversity Strategy is a package of commitments, targets and actions aiming to “put Europe’s biodiversity on the path …

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EU scrutiny of GM food is non-negotiable

05/05/2020

Friends of the Earth Europe and 73 other NGOs have today written to the EU Commission to demand that genetically modified (GM) crops are not pushed onto Europe’s fields and plates as part of a trade deal with the USA and call for better protection of the environment and climate in the EU’s trade policy.

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Principles for Transformation: How the European Green Deal can achieve System Change

30/04/2020

Plans for a ‘European Green Deal’ were presented by the European Commission as a “man on the moon” moment, which it claimed would herald an economic paradigm shift. But while the language is full of promise, the strong rhetoric disguises only moderate proposals. Friends of the Earth Europe has developed five over-arching principles to guide …

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STATEMENT: For a Europe that cares for all – during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

21/04/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating all too well that unequal societies go hand-in-hand with human suffering, fragile economies and delicate democracies. This statement comes from a broad range of European civil society actors, committed to working together towards a shared vision of the future of Europe, one that is based on a socially just, feminist, …

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Death by impunity: Berta Cáceres and Agua Zarca

23/03/2020

Berta Cáceres was murdered for protesting against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam that was threatening a river considered sacred by her community in Honduras. The community faced years of intimidation and military repression and, in total, five members of the community were killed. The company constructing the dam turned out to be directly involved in …

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NGOs call for less and better meat, dairy and eggs in the Farm to Fork Strategy

25/02/2020

Ahead of the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy, we wrote to key Commissioners and Commission Vice-President Timmermans to call on them to recognise and address the need to reduce and improve the production and consumption of meat, dairy and eggs in the strategy.

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