Unsustainable Livestock Production

New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and Livelihoods

29 Sep, 2022

Report: The State of Industrial Livestock Farming in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and People’s Livelihoods Agriculture is by far the biggest driver of deforestation, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. And most of the world’s agricultural territory is dedicated not to growing the rice or potatoes that end up on your dinner plate or the bananas in your breakfast bowl, but rather to livestock farming, including grazing animals and growing the crops used to fatten them …

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Call for applications! Digital design and production of campaign identity and website

18 Jul, 2022

Client Stop Financing Factory Farming (SFFF): a global campaign by civil society and non-profit organisations to stop public development banks like the World Bank funding industrial animal agriculture, and shift…

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Op-ed: EU-Latin America Free Trade Agreements Fuel Food Crises Globally

17 Jun, 2022

by Lasse Bruun and A. Milena Bernal Rubio Newsweek, 15 June 2022 There is a grave misalignment between how the European Union (EU) conducts agricultural policy within and outside its borders.…

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IDB Invest Drops Controversial Loan to Brazilian Beef Giant Marfrig Global Foods

23 Feb, 2022

WASHINGTON — Environmental, animal welfare, human rights and development advocacy groups and Indigenous communities are cheering today after learning that the IDB Invest, the private arm of the Inter-American Development Bank…

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Short-term research contract: Unsustainable livestock farming in Asia

26 Jan, 2022

The Global Forest Coalition is looking for a researcher in the field of unsustainable livestock farming in Asia. The researcher will work together with the project coordinator and communications team…

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#DivestFactoryFarming website project consultant

7 Jan, 2022

The Divest Factory Farming campaign is seeking an experienced digital consultant to coordinate the production of a new website for the campaign. Contract: Fixed term – approximately 10 days work…

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Gender justice and livestock farming: A feminist analysis of livestock and forest policy-making

22 Dec, 2021

The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, signed in November 2021 during COP26, pledged to end deforestation by 2030. This is a full ten years later than the…

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Movements, civil society counter anti-people UN Food Systems Summit

22 Sep, 2021

Today, thousands of rural peoples, people’s organizations, CSOs, and advocates kicked off The Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems through various online and on-ground activities to challenge the corporate…

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Meat Atlas 2021: Gender, poverty and livestock farming

9 Sep, 2021

This year’s edition of the Meat Atlas is packed full of analysis, statistics and infographics on global meat production and consumption, including a contribution by GFC’s Livestock and Gender Justice…

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Thousands mobilize to call for food systems that empower people, not companies

5 Aug, 2021

UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID-19, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, totalling almost 9,000 people. 3 August 2021. Rome, Italy. Between 25-28 July 2021,…

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People’s movements call to reclaim food systems from corporate control

6 Jun, 2021

PRESS RELEASE June 5, 2021 People’s movements to counter UN summit; call to reclaim food systems from corporate control On the occasion of World Environment Day, June 5, people’s movements…

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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…

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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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