Recently Europe has seen unprecedented opposition to free trade agreements such as TTIP and CETA. Central to these protests were concerns that these new trade and investment agreements would have harmful impacts on food quality, consumers’ rights, farmers, producers’ income, as well as wider negative impacts on jobs and working conditions in the food sector. …
Setting course for sustainable trade – a new trade agenda that serves people and the environment
Many rules governing trade and investment today hinder efforts to achieve more sustainable economies. We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them. In this unprecedentedly comprehensive paper, Friends …
Unwrapped: how throwaway plastic is failing to solve Europe’s food waste problem (and what we need to do instead)
A rise in plastic food packaging is failing to reduce Europe’s growing food waste problem, and in some cases may even be fueling it, according this study prepared by the Institute for European Environmental Policy for Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe. The report is accompanied by a series of factsheets that …
Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency
To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. “Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by …
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Less and better: a call for policy action on animal farming
In recent decades, European food and farming have become heavily unbalanced in favour of industrial agricultural systems and factory farming, which produce meat, dairy and eggs unsustainably. We joined a large and diverse range of European civil society organisations – active in the areas of farming, pastoralism, animal welfare, environment, social justice, climate, forestry, health, …
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Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected
Ahead of a final decision from the European Commission on the Bayer-Monsanto meger, over 70 civil society organisations have called on the European Commission to reject the merger on competition grounds.
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