Check out the impact of Friends of the Earth Europe in 2018 in our Annual Review. Read highlights from our network of grassroots member organisations across Europe – including major wins in the battle against plastic pollution; victories for a fossil-free Europe saving Hambach Forest and winning an end date for coal in Germany and …
Meet the people cooking up a better future for food and farming
Across Europe, small-scale farmers and food activists are pushing a transition towards a better way of producing and consuming food. One that respects nature and the climate, produces better food, and provides good livelihoods for those involved. These testimonies showcase successful examples from countries where a transition towards agroecological farming and local distribution is already …
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Nyeleni report on CAP reform – More Farmers Better Food
The CAP is currently undergoing a process of reform, providing the perfect opportunity to reorient the EU’s food and farming system, which has lost thousands of farms in the last decades. At this key moment for the direction of European agriculture, the Nyeleni movement have published a report giving a number of arguments in support …
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Open letter to MEPs voting on CAP Reform
Ahead of an important vote in April 2019 in the European Parliament to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Friends of the Earth Europe and 15 other civil society organisations representing organic farmers, environmental protection, animal welfare, development, food and health interests are demanding MEPs in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development vote to …
No palm oil in the EU-Indonesia trade and investment agreement
The EU-Indonesia trade deal CEPA (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) is currently being discussed in Brussels. Indonesian negotiators are hoping to sell their favourite good to Europeans: palm oil. A commodity smeared with controversy, as it causes labour violations, deforestation or climate change. Although the EU is already the world’s biggest importer of palm oil, European trade …
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