In Europe, we are currently consuming an area of land one and a half times the size of our continent. This amount is increasing and as a continent Europe is putting more and more pressure on the limited land the planet has left. Our current land footprint is pushing up food prices, driving land-grabs, contributing …
Over 100 organisations urge Commission to take account of full impacts of agrofuels
Over 100 civil society organisations, including Friends of the Earth Europe, wrote to the European Commission calling for the full climate impact of agrofuels, including indirect land use change, to be taken into account in two key pieces of EU legislation. The full letter can be downloaded on the right. We told the European Commission …
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Europe ready for resource efficiency
European politicians laid foundations for a resource efficient Europe today, with wide political support shown for the need to measure Europe’s resource use. This is a crucial first step towards reducing Europe’s resource use, according to Friends of the Earth Europe, but the European Commission must follow suit in order for Europe to gain the …
New report uncovers land grab in Uganda
Released on the eve of a World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a new report reveals widespread violations of people’s rights and environmental destruction from a land grab initially funded by the World Bank in Uganda. The Friends of the Earth Uganda report provides first-hand accounts from communities forced to give up their livelihoods, …
Stop land grabbing now: Land, life and justice in Uganda
Palm oil corporations Wilmar International and BIDICO, along with the Ugandan Government and the World Bank, have funded huge palm oil expansion on islands off the coast of Lake Victoria. A quarter of the islands have already been planted with oil palm. Most of this land belonged to local communities and indigenous peoples. This is …
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Airlines urged to move away from destructive jatropha
The airlines KLM and Air France vowed not to do business with Dutch company Waterland International following the publication of Friends of the Earth Netherlands report revealing the company’s involvement in damaging jatropha cultivation in Java for the production of aviation biokerosene. The report revealed threats to local food cultivation in Java, and the exploitation …
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