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World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

16 Oct 2019

By Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition) and Mia MacDonald (Brighter Green) The fires in the Amazon forests that shocked the world have been quenched by seasonal rains and the emergency efforts of fire fighters. But the match that lit most of the flames hasn’t been doused, because many of the fires were set to clear land to graze cattle or plant soybeans, which are used throughout the world, but more specifically in Europe, China, the USA, to feed billions of…

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Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

21 Sep 2019

by Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition We are heading towards a week of intense climate…

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Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

18 Sep 2019

This week the Global Climate Strike begins, a worldwide campaign initiated by young people to protest against the destruction of…

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“They are only interested in soy”: how peasant and indigenous women in Paraguay are organising to survive the twin threats of industrial agriculture and climate change

11 Sep 2019

With world leaders gathering once again at UN Headquarters in New York, this time for the Climate Action Summit, this…

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Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires

24 Aug 2019

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Being proven correct does not always feel good. When the Green Climate Fund, the…

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The Community Conservation Resilience Initiative ("CCRI") documented and reviewed the findings of bottom-up, participatory assessments in 22 countries of the resilience of community conservation initiatives and the support that should be provided to strengthen these initiatives. The aim of the project was to contribute to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2011-2020 Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets, by providing policy advice on effective and appropriate forms of support for community conservation. The global report of is now available, including the summaries for each of the countries covered, in our CCRI reports' interactive map

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African Dialogue on Alternatives to Unsustainable Livestock Production

2 Sep 2019
Caleb Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The first of a series of regional dialogues on Alternatives to Unsustainable Livestock Production took place on 2 September 2019…
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National Native and Creole Seed Fair, Parguay

27 Jul 2019
la Plaza de la Democracia, Asunción, Paraguay

by Heñoi Jey 2019 Our agrobiodiversity allows us to feed and preserve our culture. Agribusiness weakens and impoverishes the entire…
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Driving deforestation: drifting away from real solutions to address the climate crisis

17 Jun 2019
Kaminzimmer Room, UNFCCC Intersessional, Bonn, 15:00-16:30

The importance that forests and land have to overcoming the climate crisis has been extensively documented, as has the key…
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The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs

18 Oct 2019

This paper by Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek has been published in the journal Globalizations, as part of the “Transformational Responses to Authoritarian…
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World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

16 Oct 2019

By Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition) and Mia MacDonald (Brighter Green) The fires in the Amazon forests that shocked the…
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Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

21 Sep 2019

by Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition We are heading towards a week of intense climate…
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Remembering Fany Avila

2 Sep 2019

The Global Forest Coalition mourns the loss of our colleague Fany Avila, director of the Asociación Indígena Ambiental in Panama
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Forest Cover 57 – 1.5°C from a community perspective

3 Dec, 2018

Welcome to the 57th issue of Forest Cover, the Global Forest Coalition’s magazine. It provides a space for environmental justice activists from across the world to present their views on…
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Incentivising deforestation for livestock products

18 Nov, 2018

How support for the livestock sector in the EU and Mercosur countries is subsidising forest destruction Aichi Target 3 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) states that subsidies and…
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World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

“They are only interested in soy”: how peasant and indigenous women in Paraguay are organising to survive the twin threats of industrial agriculture and climate change

Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires

Recent events

African Dialogue on Alternatives to Unsustainable Livestock Production

National Native and Creole Seed Fair, Parguay

Driving deforestation: drifting away from real solutions to address the climate crisis

Latest from the blog

The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs

World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

Remembering Fany Avila

Resources and publications

Forest Cover 57 – 1.5°C from a community perspective

Incentivising deforestation for livestock products

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