Cocoa, coffee or rubber farmers need to get a fair price for their products. That’s why we joined 69 other organisations calling on the EU to require companies to check if their suppliers are being paid a living income. #CSDDD EU Council European Parliament fairtrade-advocacy.org/wp-content/upl…

5 years ago today our award-winning report w/ Mongabay, The Secret Deal to Destroy Paradise, exposed a vast planned oil palm plantation set to destroy pristine Indonesian forest twice the size of Greater London. So, what has happened since?🧵bit.ly/46vSfqX

Blue Carbon’s 25 million hectare #CarbonOffsetting African land-grab does nothing for the climate but will exacerbate injustices for those depending on their forests. Together with 38 NGOs, we call on #COP28 to fight for real solutions: fern.org/publications-i…

Lights🔦 Camera🎥 Action🎬 This week, along with The Consumer Voice, The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and Eurogroup For Animals, we shone a spotlight on the European Commission. Why? It's not delivered key #EUFarm2Fork promises made to Europeans. We can't eat broken promises!🤥 #BrokenPromisesBrokenPlanet

The #COP28 is over. Hard not to feel deflated knowing the majority of countries wanted to see explicit agreement on a fossil fuel phaseout, and developing country calls for extra finance to deliver it were so clear. But the reality is still that progress ⭐️ has been made today…

With the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture announced by Ursula von der Leyen about to start on 25 January, we see renewed attacks on the 🇪🇺 green policies #EUGreenDeal - and a purported “overregulation”. Let’s do a quick reality check 🤓 🧵👇

The #SustainableCocoaInitiative has positively impacted the #cocoa sector, enabling unprecedented dialogue between producer countries & the #EU. But challenges remain. Read about the achievements, concerns and further steps in our new report 👇 fern.org/publications-i…

Pouvez-vous nous citer les mesures du Green Deal qui sont déjà en application ….? …? Quel impact ? Bcp de mesures reportées (si pas abandonnées), bloquées ou vidées de leur substance (et pas encore en application dans tous les cas). Et ça passe crème …

Much of the reporting on European farmers’ protests point to environmental regulations, in particular the Farm-to-Fork strategy (F2F), as the source of anger. Not only is that narrative incomplete, it is also dangerous. A thread on why farmers aren’t a monolithic group. 🧵

BREAKING: Companies, certifiers, & civil society organisations active in the chocolate sector have joined forces to call on Member States to approve the #CSDDD before the end of the current EU legislative term! Hadja Lahbib Pierre-Yves Dermagne Hubertus Heil Marco Buschmann Sven Giegold

Only the latest in progressive business support for Due Diligence: Italian chocolate industry leader Ferrero EU Affairs 😋🍫 - together with Mars, Mondelēz Intl, and civil society actors - urged the Italian Government Italy 🇮🇹 in EU to vote yes on the #CSDDD. business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news…

As #FarmersProtests2024 continue across Europe, farmers in Côte d’Ivoire are being crushed by the same pressures, shares Ousmane Traoré, chair of ECAKOOG, an organisation of small cocoa producers. Read more in #ForestWatch 👇 fern.org/publications-i…

The European Commission’s proposal to remove basic environmental conditions in the #CAP is anti-democratic & feeds the false narrative that we must pick between environment or agriculture. We urge Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw the proposal. Read the joint statement: clientearth.org/latest/documen…

NEW STUDY: EU could slash 48 million tonnes of emissions and save €2.8 billion annually with healthier ready meals! Stella Kyriakides Ida Auken Rasmus Prehn Alessandra Moretti Biljana Borzan Sara Cerdas @saracerdas.bsky.social Frédérique Ries #MakeReadyMealsHealthier Read more 👇 madrebrava.org/insight/eu-cou…

Very proud to see this study, which I've been working on over the past year, come out today! Regulating ready-made meals could reduce the same amount of GHG emissions as taking 38m cars off the road every year- and save consumers money.

At the end of 2024, companies will need to start complying with the EU #Deforestation Regulation (#EUDR) & show where their imported goods come from. Our new report lays out a set of 10 criteria for a credible & transformative #traceability system 👇 fern.org/publications-i… 1/2

"National traceability mechanisms must be designed with smallholder farmers in mind, providing information that helps them strengthen their bargaining power and push for better prices." - Julia Christian, Fern news.mongabay.com/2024/07/lets-r…

Across the world, forest destruction is increasing, fuelling the climate crisis and collapsing ecosystems. The #EUDR is the beginning of the forest fightback. President Ursula von der Leyen: #DefendEUDR by ensuring timely & full implementation.

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This is wild. European countries import coffee and cocoa from Africa and then re-export at an average 300% mark-up. This tactic was widely used by Europeans during the colonial period and it continues to be used today. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…