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, YFoEE and the CAP
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 …
Read our *new* toolkit on intersectionality
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 …
Good Food Good Farming – Stories from the Days of Action
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 …
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Gas flaring in Nigeria: women on the front lines
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 …
CAP infographics
Infographics in Macedonian
Eating as form of activism
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 …
Reflections on Summer Camp
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 …
Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change
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 …
Young in a Warming World
Louise McKeever About me: I am a young climate activist. I organise with Young Friends of the Earth Scotland and Fossil Free Glasgow, a local campaign group working to get our council to divest their pension fund from fossil fuel companies. I cannot speak on behalf of “young people” and all the intersections …