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Consultation Responses
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Factsheets
Reports
Eating the Planet? How we can feed the world without trashing it - media briefing
(PDF† 3.2MB) November 2009
Eating the Planet? How we can feed the world without trashing it - Q&A
(PDF† 200KB) November 2009
Eating the Planet? How we can feed the world without trashing it - full report
(PDF† 2MB) November 2009
Slash Not Burn
(PDF† 82K) February 2009
Why UK biofuel targets should be stopped.
What's feeding our food?
(PDF† 2170K) December 2008
What's feeding our food? A summary
(PDF† 504K) December 2008
Recycling: why it's important and how to do it
(PDF† 283K) September 2008
This briefing explains the benefits of recycling and the best practice which councils should implement to improve doorstep collection schemes and maximise recycling rates.
Sorting residual waste
(PDF† 1620K) June 2008
A guide for councils to save money and help the environment by cutting back on residual waste, via increased recycling and reuse.
Get unlabelled GM ingredients out of your local restaurants
(PDF† 88K) April 2008
Hoofprints: Livestock and its environmental impacts
(PDF† 320K) February 2008
An Effective Town Centre First Policy: what needs to be in the new PPS6
(PDF† 89K) December 2007
Food and climate change
(PDF† 180K) October 2007
Planting prejudice - full report
(PDF† 343K) October 2007
Planting prejudice - executive summary
(PDF† 511K) October 2007
Farmers speak out on low milk prices
(PDF† 41K) Sepember 2007
GM rice contamination action guide
(PDF† 53K) September 2007
Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS)
(PDF† 170K) September 2007
This briefing outlines how LATS works and the best way for councils to meet these targets without incineration.
Up in smoke
(PDF† 190K) September 2007
This briefing looks at the reasons why Friends of the Earth opposes incineration, and covers the waste of natural resources, the effect on recycling and climate change and the pollution from air emissions and toxic ash.
Shopping the Bullies
(PDF† 605K) April 2007
Farmer Survey 2006
(PDF† 53K) December 2006
If Tesco really wants to be green...
(PDF† 111K) July 2006
Genetically modified animal feed
(PDF† 181K) May 2006
Palm oil, the survival or the orang-utan and UK company law reform
(PDF† 56K) May 2006
This briefing explains why the failure of hundreds of UK companies to ensure that they do not buy palm oil from destructive sources is a classic example of how the voluntary approach to corporate responsibility has failed, and why the Company Law Reform Bill must be strengthened.
Could GM food cause allergies?
(PDF† 188K) February 2006
Calling the shots
(PDF† 462K) January 2006
Local Development Frameworks and your community
(PDF† 130K) December 2005
Britain's supermarkets still not supporting native apples
(PDF† 71K) November 2005
How to...oppose a supermarket planning application
(PDF† 152K) September 2005
The Tesco Takeover
(PDF† 194K) June 2005
The Tesco Takeover: Tesco's response
(PDF† 128K) July 2005
The Tesco Takeover - Leaflet
(PDF† 153K) June 2005
Checking out the environment? Environmental impacts of supermarkets
(PDF† 142K) June 2005
Good neighbours? Community impacts of supermarkets
(PDF† 110K) June 2005
Summary of Legal Opinion in the matter of co-existence, traceability and labelling of GMOs
(PDF† 18K) March 2005
Government to publish final GM Farm Scale Trial results: Winter oilseed rape
(PDF† 220K) March 2005
Legal Opinion in the matter of co-existence, traceability and labelling of GMOs
(PDF† 181K) January 2005
Retail development: Key polices for inclusion in Local Development Frameworks
(PDF† 51K) November 2004
The Voluntary Initiative catchment projects: are they really working?
(PDF† 70K) November 2004
Why the new PPS6 could damage town centres
(PDF† 50K) November 2004
Children's exposure to pesticides in apples and pears
(PDF† 36K) August 2004
The pesticides in our food
(PDF† 95K) Updated August 2004
GM-free local areas
(PDF† 58K) Updated July 2004
Pesticides in supermarket food
(PDF† 75K) Updated July 2004
Access to information on pesticides
(PDF† 89K) June 2004
Bayer's pesticides: why it is important that Bayer's pesticide safety data is freely available
(PDF† 69K) June 2004
Every Little Hurts: Why Tesco needs to be tamed
(PDF† 60K) June 2004
GM contamination: how to prevent GM contamination of the food chain and countryside
(PDF† 346K) March 2004
GM fodder maize: why Chardon LL should not become the UK's first commercial GM crop
(PDF† 159K) March 2004
The Voluntary Initiative and water pollution
(PDF† 236K) March 2004
Gene flow
(PDF† 92K) Updated February 2004
Herbicide use and GM crops
(PDF† 120K) Updated February 2004
Market Forces
(PDF† 96K) Updated February 2004
Alliance calls for new supermarket Code and Watchdog
(PDF† 123K) January 2004
Why we need a GM Contamination and Liability Bill now
(PDF† 126K) January 2004
Home grown apples in short supply...
(PDF† 146K) November 2003
How supermarkets avoid planning controls
(PDF† 36K) July 2003
Unleashing a new pollution?
(PDF† 636K) July 2003
Tesco: Exposed
(PDF† 136K) June 2003
Farmers and the supermarket Code of Practice
(PDF† 123K) March 2003
GM trade war looms
(PDF† 245K) February 2003
Super Markets or Corporate Bullies?
(PDF† 195K) February 2003
Genetically Modified Crops and Food
(PDF† 141K) Updated January 2003
The way forward on waste
(PDF† 117K) January 2003
This is Friends of the Earth's policy on municipal waste. It has been agreed following discussions between staff and local groups and gives our recommendations for the European Union, national government and local authorities.
British Apples for Sale
(PDF† 95K) November 2002
GM food safety
(PDF† 137K) October 2002
Liability and GM crops
(PDF† 152K) October 2002
Supermarkets and Great British Fruit
(PDF† 48K) October 2002
The Farm Scale Trials
(PDF† 113K) October 2002
The regulatory process
(PDF† 77K) October 2002
Seed purity
(PDF† 130K) October 2002
Economic impact of GM
(PDF† 145K) October 2002
GM crops and food security
(PDF† 120K) October 2002
T25 maize
(PDF† 123K) October 2002
Climate change, crisis and southern Africa
(PDF† 23K) August 2002
Your right to object to GM crops
(PDF† 143K) July 2002
Into the mouths of babes
(PDF† 55K) March 2002
Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?
(PDF† 49K) December 2001
Greening the Red Tractor
(PDF† 50K) December 2001
Asia Pulp and Paper
(PDF† 132K) June 2001
This briefing examines the destructive practices of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and the Indonesian pulp and paper industry.
Foot and Mouth Crisis
April 2001
US Corporation Still Taking the Peat
(PDF† 87K) April 2001
There are clear indications that the US based Scotts
Company is delaying the UK Government new
designation of our three largest lowland raised
peatbogs as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC's).
Bad science, bad decisions: the evidence against Aventis' GM maize
(PDF† 47K) March 2001
The Farm Scale Trial crops - GM maize, beet and oilseed rape
(PDF† 25K) March 2001
Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides - European Priority List
(PDF† 86K) February 2001
RDA Briefing 2: Farmers' Markets
September 2000
The economic benefits of farmers' markets
(PDF† 90K) September 2000
Farmers' markets: Actions needed by local authorities
(PDF† 26K) August 2000
Farmers' Briefing: GM Crops and Animal Feed
July 2000
Contaminated GM crops
(PDF† 25K) May 2000
Farm Scale Trials - a short critique
March 2000
Genetically Modified Food and Crops: Our Right to a Local Referendum
(PDF† 30K) February 2000
Farm Scale Trials of GM crops - in depth
December 1999
Endocrine disrupting pesticides
October 1999
Bees, honey and genetically modified crops
September 1999
Antibiotic resistance genes in GM foods
April 1999
Farm Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified Crops: Comments by Friends of the Earth, March 1999
March 1999
Lowland raised bog SSSIs threatened by commercial peat extraction
April 1998
With our peatlands still being mined to boost the profits of peat firms and garden centres, less than six per cent of Britain's original lowland raised peat bog habitat remains in a near natural condition.
Indonesian forest fires
October 1997
Forest fires are burning out of control in forest, plantations and scrub-land chiefly in Sumatra and Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo); it is now estimated that up to 1 million ha is burning.
Forests and climate change
August 1997
This briefing is designed to give an overview of the issues and expose some of the myths that have
been generated.
Timber - Mahogany
August 1996
Outlines the issues behind Friends of the Earth's 'Mahogany is Murder' campaign. Types and distribution of mahogany are explained and the devastating impacts on the Brazilian rainforest and its people, due to the mahogany trade between Brazil and the UK, are outlined.
Timber: Eco-Labelling and Certification
June 1995
There is currently considerable public confusion due to the existence of a huge variety of 'eco-labels' on timber products, along with claims concerning 'environmentally acceptable' or 'sustainably produced' timber.
Competition Commission: Provisional decision on planning remedies
(PDF† 90K) March 2008
Competition Commission: Provisional decision on remedies relating to supply chain practices
(PDF† 93K) March 2008
Friends of the Earth's response to Leeds University's application to grow GM potatoes
(PDF† 121K) March 2008
Friends of the Earth's response to the Competition Commission: Notice of Possible Remedies
(PDF† 175K) November 2007
Friends of the Earth's objection to BASF's GM blight-resistant potato trials
(PDF† 62K) April 2007
Friends of the Earth's response to the Government's consultation on options for implementing the environmental liability directive
(PDF† 64K) February 2007
Friends of the Earth's response to Defra's consultation on proposals for managing the coexistence of GM, conventional and organic crops in England
(PDF† 791K) October 2006
GM 'coexistence' consultation - Legal opinion
(PDF† 73K) October 2006
GM 'coexistence' consultation - Summary of the legal opinion
(PDF† 210K) October 2006
Friends of the Earth's response to Consultation on the ACRE report on "Managing the Footprint of Agriculture: Towards a Comparative Assessment of Risks and Benefits for Novel Agricultural Systems"
(PDF† 68K) June 2006
Friends of the Earth's response to the Competition Commission: Grocery Market Investigation
(PDF† 68K) June 2006
Friends of the Earth's response to the Office of Fair Trading: proposed decision to make a market investigation reference of the grocery market
(PDF† 78K) April 2006
Friends of the Earth's response to the Draft National Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products
(PDF† 98K) June 2005
Friends of the Earth's response to ODPM's Consultation paper "Planning Control of Mezzanine and Other Internal Floorspace Additions"
(PDF† 44K) April 2005
Developing measures to promote catchment-sensitive farming: Response by Friends of the Earth
(PDF† 83K) September 2004
Consultation on Draft Planning Policy Statement Six: Planning for Town Centres. Summary of key points from Friends of the Earth's reponse
(PDF† 112K) March 2004
Proposals for the introduction of no-spray buffer zones around residential properties
(PDF† 37K) November 2003
Access to information about crop spraying
(PDF† 18K) August 2003
Friends of the Earth's submission to the Competition Commission regarding the proposed acquisition of Safeway
(PDF† 128K) April 2003
Friends of the Earth's submissions to the Office of Fair Trading regarding the proposed acquisition of Safeway
(PDF† 113K) February 2003
Response to the consultation on the proposed changes to the National List written representations and hearings procedures
(PDF† 190K) November 2002
Consultation on the EC proposals on the thresholds for Adventitious Presence of Approved GMOs in Seeds - A Response from Friends of the Earth
(PDF† 37K) August 2002
Response to the Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming
(PDF† 317K) October 2001
Comment on 'Report on the separation distances required to ensure cross-pollination is below specified limits in non-seed crops of sugar beet, maize and oilseed rape'
(PDF† 41K) September 2000
Organic Farming Scheme
(PDF† 20K) February 2000
Proposal for a market study for OFT consideration
(PDF† 114K) November 2004
Royal Commision study on pesticides and bystander exposure - response from Friends of the Earth
(PDF† 27K) November 2004
Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee on the Pesticides Voluntary Initiative from Friends of the Earth and PAN-UK.
(PDF† 100K) December 2003
Why the voluntary initiative will not deliver on the Government's pesticide objectives -a submission by Friends of the Earth and PAN-UK.
(PDF† ) November 2002
Proofs of evidence from the Chardon LL Public Hearing
An analysis of the Chicken Study, By Dr Steve Kestin and Dr Toby Knowles
(PDF† ) November 2000
An assessment of outcrossing in maize, relevant to the proposed decision to add GM maize variety Chardon LL to the National List. By Professor Jean Emberlin
(PDF† ) October 2000
Risks posed by horizontal gene transfer with regard to Chardon LL maize. By Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher
(PDF† ) October 2000
Changes to the Regulation of the Environmental Safety of Releasing Genetically Modified Organisms into the Environment since December 1998. By Dr Susan Mayer
(PDF† ) October 2000
Analysis of key documents relevant to the safety of Chardon LL for animal feed purposes. By Dr C V Howard
(PDF† ) October 2000
Statement on required testing of GM forage for feeding to animals, relevant to the proposed decision to add GM maize variety Chardon LL to the National List. By Dr Bob Orskov
(PDF† ) September 2000
Waste
(PDF† ) June 2008
This booklet explains how we can reduce our waste, and how recycling can help the environment, save resources and energy and generate jobs. For paper copies visit our online Shop's free resources section.
Up in smoke
(PDF† 262K) October 2007
This leaflet explains why Friends of the Earth opposes incineration of mixed municipal waste.
Food & Farming
(PDF† 1044K) August 2002
Sustainability as a smokescreen
( PDF† 1.4MB) May 2008
An assessment of the expected effectiveness of applying sustainability criteria to agrofuel and animal feedstock production in the Mercosur region.
Executive Summary - Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia
( PDF† 153K) February 2008
This report by Friends of the Earth, Sawit Watch and LifeMosaic has revealed how Indonesian government policies and palm oil industry practices are harming the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples. This summary highlights the importance of these findings to policy makers in Europe and argues that in the face of such evidence, targets to increase agrofuel use in the UK and the rest of the EU are misguided, risking environmental damage and human rights abuses on an even bigger scale.
Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use
(PDF† 898K) February 2008
Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use: executive summary
(PDF† 956K) February 2008
Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use: Q&A
(PDF† 35K) February 2008
Who benefits from GM crops? Monsanto and the corporate-driven genetically modified crop revolution
(PDF† 843K) January 2006
Who benefits from GM crops: Key Facts
(PDF† 46K) January 2006
Can't see the forest for the TR€£$
(PDF† 1450K) November 2005
This report looks at how trade talks to open up markets for timber and wood products could speed up destruction of the world's forests, devastating the livelihoods of millions of the poorest people in the world and undermining efforts to tackle climate change.
An analysis of the findings of the BRIGHT trials with GM herbicide tolerant crops
(PDF† ) March 2005
The Voluntary Initiative Catchment Projects - are they really working?
(PDF† 429K) November 2004
Keeping your area GM free
(PDF† 307K) October 2003
Regional information to accompany report:
Breaking the pesticide chain
(PDF† 699K) July 2003
Local food, future directions
(PDF† 1.53MB) November 2002
Merseyside local food initiative
(PDF† 440K) June 2002
Science as a smokescreen?
(PDF† 793K) March 2002
Get real about food and farming - Friends of the Earth's vision for the future of farming in the UK
(PDF† ) October 2001
Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(PDF† 1.76MB) August 2001
A Friends of the Earth Report detailing the responsibility of international financial institutions for Indonesian forest destruction, social conflict and the financial crisis of Asia Pulp and Paper.
Health and environmental impacts of glufosinate ammonium
(PDF† ) May 2001
Health and environmental impacts of glyphosate (PDF† ) May 2001
The great food gamble
(PDF† ) May 2001
Sound Science? - the evidence against Aventis' GM maize
(PDF† ) February 2001
GMOs: The Case for a Moratorium
October 1998
Plunder for profit - The UK and Brazilian mahogany trade
(PDF†> 695K)
Mahogany is still being plundered from Indian reserves and other protected areas. In addition, this report shows that to this date there is no sustainable extraction of mahogany in the entire Brazilian Amazon.
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