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Are you concerned about the impacts of intensive farming on biodiversity? Are you ready to get your get your hands dirty and to campaign for a fair and environmentally-friendly food system? Apply to become an agri-activism volunteer! What is Agri-activism? Each year, YFoEE is working together with the Caerhys organic farm to organise volunteering placements …

Agri-activism opportunity 2019 – Volunteers needed as soon as possible!Read More

In October two fellow ‘FOEs’ and I took an expedition up to Celbridge, Kildare to meet an organic farmer. Nathan was his name and he was by no means your average farmer. With flowing long locks of rebellion-to-the-norms hair and a semi-bleak attitude to the general state-of-affairs. Nathan is what I would call ‘a farmer …

Good Food Good Farming – Farmer Expedition Eire #1Read More

In November 2018, activists from all over Europe and from all walks of activist life including YFoE gathered in Brussels. We gathered under the roof of Good Food Good Farming, assembled by the hard work of the people running that campaign. Young Friends of the Earth are one of 80+ organizations who support and make …

Good Food Good Farming, YFoEE and the CAPRead More

The first steps towards an intersectional approach to our work began in 2015, when YFoEE activists identified several barriers to active engagement with our network and with wider social movements, including financial, unemployment labels, racism, patriarchal practices. The new vision of YFoEE was born then – a vision of a local and international movement without …

Read our *new* toolkit on intersectionalityRead More

On 27-28th of October, Young FoE groups accross Europe got involved and organised food tastings, debates, movie screenings, cooking and seed bombing workshops… All these actions were targeted on bringing local people together (consumers and farmers, young and old), and provoking the discussion on the failures of our current food system as well as how …

Good Food Good Farming – Stories from the Days of ActionRead More

At our 2018 summer camp in Cyprus, we heard from Ubrei-Joe Maimoni Mariere about the devastating impacts oil companies like Shell are wreaking in the Niger delta. My name is Ubrei-Joe Maimoni Mariere, I’m a human rights activist from Nigeria. Gas flaring in Nigeria started 62 years ago, when oil exploration activities started – in …

Gas flaring in Nigeria: women on the front linesRead More

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CAP infographicsRead More

As we arrive in Berlin for the GMO free regions conference in Berlin we are struck by just how many ‘bio’ (organic) shops there are. Since arriving at the farm we have been sustaining ourselves on mainly organic food and it’s been easy. We have some fantastic cooking skills between us, access to a lot …

Eating as form of activismRead More

  On the 3rd-10th September 2018, YFoEE hosted a youth summer camp in Platres in the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. There were 60 young people from 28 different countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America in attendance at the camp. On day one participants were welcomed to the camp and a safer space session was …

Reflections on Summer CampRead More

Dora Sivka   If climate change has taught us anything, it’s that we don’t live in homogenous societies. When climate-induced catastrophes strike, all of the social and systemic injustices that persist in our societies are revealed. In one of our previous mythbusters, we’ve already debunked the myth of climate change being only an environmental issue …

Women on the Front Lines of Climate ChangeRead More