Unsustainable Livestock Production

We condemn violations of the right to protest and attacks on human rights and water defenders protesting against Carroll Farms in the Libres-Oriental Basin

1 Jul, 2024

We condemn violations of the right to protest and attacks on human rights and water defenders protesting against Carroll Farms in the Libres-Oriental Basin   Mexico City, June 24, 2024 — The undersigned organizations express our rejection and reiterate our concern regarding the acts against the right to protest and the attacks on human rights defenders by the security forces of the state of Veracruz, Mexico, which occurred on June 20 in the community of Totalco, municipality of Perote. The …

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White Paper launched on a just transition from industrial animal production

11 Jun, 2024

A new white paper from GFC and partners unites various civil society organisations dedicated to transforming the food system behind a common vision of an equitable, humane and sustainable food system and agreed pathways for food system transformation to…

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Intl Day of Peasant Struggles: Launch of case study on agroecological shelters in Argentina

17 Apr, 2024

The International Day of Peasant Struggles, commemorated annually on April 17th, echoes the enduring fight for the rights and dignity of peasants and farmers worldwide. The day was originally declared…

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Press Release: Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Found in UN-financed large-scale Livestock Project in Colombia

5 Mar, 2024

The United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund through &Green and the FMO (The Dutch Development Bank) and other climate financiers must halt financing false solutions to climate change and redirect support…

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Examining “Sustainable” Livestock Intensification and Financing: A Critical Analysis of the Hacienda San José Case in Colombia

5 Mar, 2024

To tackle the climate crisis adequately, it is important that climate finance flows massively to initiatives that have real positive effects in terms of climate change mitigation and that have…

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Global Forest Coalition participates in the Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Peoples’ Integration

19 Feb, 2024

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC), an NGO with over 120 member organisations, including Indigenous Peoples and local communities worldwide, will be present at the Latin American and Caribbean Conference of…

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Working to End the Financing of Factory Farming – GFC and the S3F campaign

16 Feb, 2024

Check out the latest newsletter from the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign to discover what we and coalition colleagues were up to over 2023 in efforts to document and…

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Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow: The Seed Fairs of Heñói

31 Jan, 2024

Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow A photo essay series – Part III   The Seed Fairs of Heñói is part three of Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow, a new series of photo…

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Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow: The TreeBox Project

25 Jan, 2024

Click here to read this page in Russian.   Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow A photo essay series – Part II   The TreeBox Project is part two of Guardians of…

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Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow: Agromandala

17 Jan, 2024

Agromandala is part one of Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow, a new series of photo essays from the Global Forest Coalition. Through our series of photo essays in collaboration with organizations that…

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GFC joins calls for IDB to reject loan request for cattle ranch expansion in Paraguay

27 Oct, 2023

  The Global Forest Coalition has joined Centro de Estudios Heñói and Iniciativa Amotocodie, calling on IDB Invest of the Inter-American Development Bank to reject in its 1 November board…

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Civil Society Declaration Finance in Common Summit 2023

2 Oct, 2023

The Global Forest Coalition joined members and allies at the Finance in Common Summit in Colombia, contributing to the Civil Society Declaration and other core actions.

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Gender Justice and its Crucial Role in the Fight Against Factory Farming

24 Aug, 2023

The agrifood system is intricately woven with social class, gender, and ethnicity, perpetuating a matrix of capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial dominance that underlies unequal access to sustenance, safe working conditions,…

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Get to know the Belém Declaration

11 Aug, 2023

Leaders from State Parties involved in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) convened in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day conference. The primary objective was to forge an agreement…

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Press Statement: Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions

6 Jun, 2023

Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions Corporate co-opting of global climate policy is leading us to a climate catastrophe BONN, June 6, 2023 – UN member states…

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Video: Call on the World Bank to #StopFinancingFactoryFarming

12 May, 2023

May 2023   Created by Stop Financing Factory Farming, a diverse global coalition working to shift public development finance away from industrial animal agriculture, to sustainable and equitable food production…

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Groups Demand World Bank Shift Lending away from Industrial Animal Agriculture

12 Apr, 2023

April 12, 2023 WASHINGTON DC – Friends of the Earth and the global Stop Financing Factory Farming Campaign (S3F) announce a week of action targeting the World Bank Group (WBG) and…

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