Unsustainable Livestock Production

Corporate contagion: How the private sector is capturing the UN Food, Biodiversity and Climate Summits

21 May, 2021

Three big United Nations summits are coming up on food, biodiversity and the climate, and the private sector is poised to have a major influence at all of them, making 2021 a key year for the corporate takeover of multilateral processes. With civil society participation in these summits limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, several extremely harmful policy outcomes are being cooked up. If corporations have their way, these summits will protect business interests over urgent and effective action on food …

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World Bank urged to drop a $50 million loan for factory farm expansion in Ecuador because of health, social and environmental impacts

21 May, 2021

20 May 2021–World Bank urged to drop a $50 million loan for factory farm expansion in Ecuador because of health, social and environmental impacts The World Bank is being urged to drop a…

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The Summits of the Destroyers-in-Chief: We must resist the corporate takeover of the UN’s food, biodiversity and climate agenda

22 Apr, 2021

By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition The US is back. Back in the Paris Agreement, and back to faithfully promoting the interests of destructive industries and their allies at the…

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Circular economy or vicious cycle? How corporate capture of policy-making and perverse incentives are driving deforestation

16 Dec, 2020

Our new report in our Forest Cover series analyzes the self-reinforcing cycle of the corporate capture of government policy-making and perverse incentives that harm biodiversity. It includes analysis by member…

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Contrasting food production models: forest destruction in Brazil vs forest conservation in Chad

10 Dec, 2020

December 10th commemorates the day in 1948 when the Universal Human Rights Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Although it lay the foundations for fundamental human rights…

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Development Banks: #DivestFactoryFarming NOW!

11 Nov, 2020

Development Banks are financed with public money. It’s unacceptable that they fund factory farms that can jeopardize life on this planet through deforestation, climate change and increasing the risk of…

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World Food Day: Lessons from COVID-19 can lead the way to sustainable food systems

15 Oct, 2020

Originally published by 50by40 To commemorate World Food Day, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) reflects on the impacts of extensive agro-industrial production around the world and community responses to the…

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Webinar series: Fueling agro-industrial livestock production

15 Oct, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) invites you to participate in a webinar series looking at what is fueling agro-industrial livestock production, taking place at the end of October and beginning…

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No more Rhetoric: It’s time for money to be redirected to a gender-responsive, rights-based ecosystems approach to halt biodiversity loss

8 Oct, 2020

Orignially published in ECOonline September 2020. By Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition The United Nations Biodiversity Summit is taking place at a time when the Covid 19 Pandemic has resulted…

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On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrate pastoralism as an alternative to unsustainable livestock production

9 Aug, 2020

We celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples each August 9th, but the human cultures that have conserved biodiversity since time immemorial should be celebrated year-round. Indigenous Peoples and…

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Action alert! Development banks: Stop investing in industrial animal agriculture

6 Aug, 2020

As fires rage once again in parts of Latin America, send a strong message to international development banks: stop fueling the climate crisis and new pandemics by investing in industrial…

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Letter of concern to the European Investment Bank (EIB) to stop finance for industrial livestock production

22 Jul, 2020

Over 20 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have sent an open letter (copied below) to the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) calling on them to align their…

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Open letter: International development banks must stop funding industrial livestock farming

2 Jul, 2020

Over 30 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have signed an open letter (also copied below) to the Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the President…

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Time to turn the tide on industrial animal farming: path towards post-pandemic sustainable food systems

28 May, 2020

by Global Forest Coalition and GRAIN  One important lesson that we can draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted almost every country in the world is that agro-industrial livestock production…

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Women’s Major Group on COVID-19 and the environment: support real solutions that respect human rights

15 May, 2020

The Women’s Major Group has published this powerful statement in response to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) President’s letter to UNEA’s Ministerial Declaration. The statement links the current coronovirus crisis…

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International Day of Peasant Struggle // Industrial meat production: reshaping the world in its own image

17 Apr, 2020

Perspectives from the Global South and the path to an alternative model of sustainable livestock farming On International Day of Peasant Struggle, we are delighted to launch a new report…

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Webinar series: Unsustainable livestock farming and its alternatives in a time of COVID-19 – save the dates!

7 Apr, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) invites you to participate in a webinar series on unsustainable livestock production and alternatives to it, taking place throughout April. These webinars build on a…

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