When it comes to sustainable consumption and waste management, food waste is one of the biggest challenges. Our planet suffers not only from food waste, but also from the massive amounts of resources used to produce food. This not only results in loss of food, energy, water and other resources, but also contributes to climate …
New resources to learn more about Mercosur agreement
We had the pleasure of hosting Julie Zalcman from the FoEE Economic Justice team at our workshop about the EU Mercosur agreement on 19th May. Julie explained why corporate accountability is so critical in our global economy. She highlighted the need for transparency and accountability when it comes to how companies dobusiness, noting that it …
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Our fears & hopes for the future – in a home made video!
Recently we shared a lot of resources we gathered during the Empower Youth project. From training materials from our Democracy & Communications training camps, to all the reading our trainers recommended, including a handy toolbox for creative activism, a toolkit for campaign videomaking, a website on how to recognize and work against white supremacy in …
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New tools & resources to empower your activism!
It has been quite an exciting few months for us! The Empower Youth project brought together amazing young people at two events. Fellow activists from all over Europe gathered at a Democracy Camp near Brussels and a Communications Camp in a Hungarian forest. We learned from experts and from each other, enjoyed bonding events and …
Common Agricultural Policy – unraveling the mystery
On a (very) warm day in Brussels, we had the opportunity to meet with Annelies, Gaëlle and Clara from Friends of the Earth Europe, Emma from European Coordination Via Campesina and Robbie from IPES-Food to discuss the Common Agricultural Policy and food sovereignty. At the beginning of the session, our facilitators assessed our understanding of …
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How agriculture planning plays a part in tackling climate change
A blog inspired by the session: The Common Agricultural Policy and other Agricultural policies at the YFoEE event in Brussels, 2022 What might come surprising to you is that agriculture actually plays a major part in all fields of our daily lives, not just for seasonal food production. The European Union has realized this a …
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Listen to young small-scale farmers across Europe
A podcast by Friends of the Earth Europe and Real World Radio Farming in Europe is increasingly dominated by monocultures and factory farms. So what does it mean to be a young small-scale farmer in this context? How can they get the power and resources to produce and distribute food sustainably? Three young farmers from …
Towards sustainable livestock farming in Spain
In a world where industrial livestock farming has become a steamroller, there are projects that resist and seek to turn the consumption model around with a firm commitment to extensive, sustainable and fair livestock farming. Amigos de la Tierra / Friends of the Earth Spain visited Laura, a breeder who, together with 127 other people …
Sign the petition to save fjords in Norway
Nordic Mining plans to dump millions of tonnes of mining waste in the pristine Førdefjorden in Norway. Young activists from Natur og Ungdom / Young Friends of the Earth Norway resist to preserve the fjord and its ecosystem. Help them by signing the petition. In 2015, as part of their Engebø garnet and rutile mine …
Educating young organic farmers
This interview was originally written for the magazine Sedmá generace (Seventh Generation). Shall we be concerned by the decline of organic farmers? Are young people interested by this sometime ungrateful work? In that regard, how can Germany inspire us? And how can the situation be improved by a Farmers School? We asked these and other …