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General readers

The resources here are specifically designed for general readers.

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Briefings

Slash Not Burn 
(PDF  82KB)  March 2008
Why UK biofuel targets should be stopped.

What's feeding our food?
(PDF format - 2.2MB) Dec 2008

What's feeding our food? A summary
(PDF format - 1.1MB) Dec 2008

Recycling: why it's important and how to do it
(PDF† format - 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† format- 1659K) 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 format - 88K) Apr 2008

Hoofprints: Livestock and its environmental impacts
(PDF format - 320K) Feb 2008

An Effective Town Centre First Policy: what needs to be in the new PPS6
(PDF format - 91K) Dec 2007

Planting prejudice - executive summary
(PDF format - 523K) Nov 2007

Planting prejudice - full report
(PDF format - 350K) Nov 2007

Food and climate change
(PDF format -165K) Oct 2007

Farmers speak out on low milk prices
(PDF format - 41K) Sep 2007

Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS)
(PDF† format- 170K) September 2007
This briefing outlines how LATS works and the best way for councils to meet these targets without incineration.

Up in smoke
(PDFformat - 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 format - 613K) Apr 2007

GM rice contamination action guide
(PDF format - 79K) Feb 2007

Farmer Survey 2006
(PDF format - 54K) Dec 2006

If Tesco really wants to be green...
(PDF format - 88K) Jul 2006

Could GM food cause allergies?
(PDF format - 1881K) Jun 2006

Genetically modified animal feed
(PDF format - 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.

Calling the shots
(PDF format - 462K) Jan 2006

Local Development Frameworks and your community
(PDF format - 130K) Dec 2005

Britain's supermarkets still not supporting native apples
(PDF format - 71K) Nov 2005

How to...oppose a supermarket planning application
(PDF format - 152K) Sep 2005

The Tesco Takeover
(PDF format - 194K) Jun 2005

The Tesco Takeover: Tesco's response
(PDF format - 128K) Jul 2005

The Tesco Takeover - Leaflet
(PDF format - 153K) Jun 2005

Checking out the environment? Environmental impacts of supermarkets
(PDF format - 142K) Jun 2005

Good neighbours? Community impacts of supermarkets
(PDF format - 110K) Jun 2005

Summary of Legal Opinion in the matter of co-existence, traceability and labelling of GMOs
(PDF format - 18K) Mar 2005

Legal Opinion in the matter of co-existence, traceability and labelling of GMOs
(PDF format - 181K) Mar 2005

Government to publish final GM Farm Scale Trial results: Winter oilseed rape
(PDF format - 220K) Mar 2005

The Voluntary Initiative catchment projects: are they really working?
(PDF format - 70K) Nov 2004

Retail development: Key polices for inclusion in Local Development Frameworks
(PDF format - 61K) Nov 2004

Why the new PPS6 could damage town centres
(PDF format - 50K) Nov 2004

Children's exposure to pesticides in apples and pears
(PDF format - 36K) Jul 2004

Bayer's pesticides: why it is important that Bayer's pesticide safety data is freely available
(PDF format - 69K) Jun 2004

Access to information on pesticides
(PDF format - 89K) Jun 2004

Every Little Hurts: Why Tesco needs to be tamed
(PDF format - 60K) Jun 2004

The Voluntary Initiative and water pollution
(PDF format - 226K) Mar 2004

GM contamination: how to prevent GM contamination of the food chain and countryside
(PDF format - 346K) Mar 2004

GM fodder maize: why Chardon LL should not become the UK's first commercial GM crop
(PDF format - 159K) Mar 2004

Alliance calls for new supermarket Code and Watchdog
(PDF format - 123K) Jan 2004

Why we need a GM Contamination and Liability Bill now
(PDF format - 126K) Jan 2004

Home grown apples in short supply...
(PDF format - 146K) Nov 2003

How supermarkets avoid planning controls
(PDF format - 113K) Jul 2003

Unleashing a new pollution?
(PDF format - 636K) Jul 2003

Tesco: Exposed
(PDF format - 136K) Jun 2003

GM trade war looms
(PDF format - 255K) May 2003

Farmers and the supermarket Code of Practice
(PDF format) Mar 2003

GM-free local areas
(PDF format) Mar 2003

Super Markets or Corporate Bullies?
(PDF format) Mar 2003

Genetically Modified Crops and Food
(PDF format) Updated Jan 2003

The way forward on waste
(PDF† format - 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 format) Nov 2002

Supermarkets and Great British Fruit
(PDF format) Oct 2002

Market Forces
(PDF format - 124K) Oct 2002, updated Feb 2004

GM food safety
(PDF format - 137K) Oct 2002

Gene flow
(PDF format - 126K) Oct 2002, updated Feb 2004

Liability and GM crops
(PDF format - 152K) Oct 2002

The Farm Scale Trials
(PDF format - 113K) Oct 2002

Herbicide use and GM crops
(PDF format - 129K) Oct 2002, updated Feb 2004

The regulatory process
(PDF format - 77K) Oct 2002

Seed purity
(PDF format - 130K) Oct 2002

Economic impact of GM
(PDF format - 127K) Oct 2002

GM crops and food security
(PDF format - 120K) Oct 2002

T25 maize
(PDF format - 123K) Oct 2002

The pesticides in our food
(PDF format - 155K) Sep 2002, updated Aug 2004

Climate change, crisis and southern Africa
(PDF format) Aug 2002

Your right to object to GM crops
(PDF format - 143K) Jul 2002

Into the mouths of babes
(PDF format - 54K) Mar 2002

Pesticides in supermarket food
(PDF format) Feb 2002, updated July 2004

Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?
(PDF format - 73K) Dec 2001

Greening the Red Tractor
(PDF format) Dec 2001

Asia Pulp and Paper
(PDF format - 132K) August 2001
This briefing examines the destructive practices of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and the Indonesian pulp and paper industry.

US Corporation Still Taking the Peat
(PDF format - 87K) August 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).

Foot and Mouth Crisis
Apr 2001

Bad science, bad decisions: the evidence against Aventis' GM maize
(PDF format) Mar 2001

The Farm Scale Trial crops - GM maize, beet and oilseed rape
(PDF format) Mar 2001

RDA Briefing 2: Farmers' Markets
(PDF format) Sep 2000

Farmers' markets: Actions needed by local authorities
(PDF format) Aug 2000

The economic benefits of farmers' markets
(PDF format) Aug 2000

Farmers' Briefing: GM Crops and Animal Feed
July 2000

Contaminated GM crops
(PDF format) May 2000

Farm Scale Trials - a short critique
Mar 2000

Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides - European Priority List
(PDF format) Feb 2000

Genetically Modified Food and Crops: Our Right to a Local Referendum
(PDF format) Feb 2000

Farm Scale Trials of GM crops - in depth
Dec 1999

Endocrine disrupting pesticides
Oct 1999

Bees, honey and genetically modified crops
Sep 1999

The SCIMAC Code of Practice and Guidelines for Growing Genetically Modified Crops: A Critique by Friends of the Earth
Spring 1999

Antibiotic resistance genes in GM foods
Apr 1999

Farm Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified Crops: Comments by Friends of the Earth, March 1999
March 1999

Independent International Lawyer's Opinion on the Legality of the UK Government Imposing a Moratorium on the Growing of GM Crops in the UK
Feb 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.

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Consultation Responses

Competition Commission: Provisional decision on remedies relating to supply chain practices
(PDF format - 93K) Mar 2008

Competition Commission: Provisional decision on planning remedies
(PDF format - 100K) Mar 2008

Friends of the Earth's response to Leeds University's application to grow GM potatoes
(PDF format - 121K) Mar 2008

Friends of the Earth's response to the Competition Commission: Notice of Possible Remedies
(PDF format - 175K) Nov 2007

Friends of the Earth's objection to BASF's GM blight-resistant potato trials
(PDF format - 52K) April 2007

Friends of the Earth's response to the Government's consultation on options for implementing the environmental liability directive
(PDF format - 64K) March 2007

GM 'coexistence' consultation - Summary of the legal opinion
(PDF format - 209K) November 2006

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 format - 791K) October 2006

GM 'coexistence' consultation - Legal opinion
(PDF format - 73K) 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 format - 68K) June 2006

Friends of the Earth's response to the Competition Commission: Grocery Market Investigation
(PDF format - 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 format - 78K) April 2006

Friends of the Earth's response to the Draft National Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products
(PDF format - 98K) Jun 2005

Friends of the Earth's response to ODPM's Consultation paper "Planning Control of Mezzanine and Other Internal Floorspace Additions"
(PDF format - 44K) Apr 2005

Developing measures to promote catchment-sensitive farming: Response by Friends of the Earth
(PDF format 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 format 112K) March 2004

Proposals for the introduction of no-spray buffer zones around residential properties
(PDF format 37K) November 2003

Access to information about crop spraying
(PDF format 51K) August 2003

Friends of the Earth's submission to the Competition Commission regarding the proposed acquisition of Safeway
(PDF format) April 2003

Friends of the Earth's submissions to the Office of Fair Trading regarding the proposed acquisition of Safeway
(PDF format) February 2003

Response to the consultation on the proposed changes to the National List written representations and hearings procedures
(PDF format) 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 format) August 2002

Response to the Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming
(PDF format) 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 format) Sep 2000

Organic Farming Scheme
(PDF format) Feb 2000

The Pesticides Safety Directorate Review of the Impact of Herbicide use on Genetically Modified Crops - a Response by Friends of the Earth
Jan 1999

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Evidence

Proposal for a market study for OFT consideration
(PDF format 114K) Nov 2004

Royal Commision study on pesticides and bystander exposure - response from Friends of the Earth
(PDF format 27K) Nov 2004

Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee on the Pesticides Voluntary Initiative from Friends of the Earth and PAN-UK.
(PDF format 100K) Dec 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 format) Nov 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 format) Nov 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 format) Oct 2000

Risks posed by horizontal gene transfer with regard to Chardon LL maize. By Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher
(PDF format) Oct 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 format) Oct 2000

Analysis of key documents relevant to the safety of Chardon LL for animal feed purposes. By Dr C V Howard
(PDF format) Oct 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 format) Sept 2000

Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry into GMOs and the Environment: Memorandum by Friends of the Earth
April 1999


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Factsheets

Waste
(PDFformat) 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
(PDFformat - 262K) October 2007
This leaflet explains why Friends of the Earth opposes incineration of mixed municipal waste.

Food & Farming
(PDF format - 1044K) Aug 2002

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Reports

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 format - 898K) Feb 2008

Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use: executive summary
(PDF format - 956K) Feb 2008

Who benefits from GM crops? The rise in pesticide use: Q&A
(PDF format - 35K) Feb 2008

Who benefits from GM crops? Monsanto and the corporate-driven genetically modified crop revolution
(PDF format - 843K) Jan 2006

Who benefits from GM crops: Key Facts
(PDF format - 46K) Jan 2006

Can't see the forest for the TR€£$
(PDF† format 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 format 352K) March 2005

The Voluntary Initiative Catchment Projects - are they really working?
(PDF format 429K) November 2004

Keeping your area GM free
(PDF format 307K) October 2003

Regional information to accompany report:

Breaking the pesticide chain
(PDF format - 699K) Jul 2003

Local food, future directions
(PDF format - 1.53MB) November 2002

Merseyside local food initiative
(PDF format - 440K) June 2002

Science as a smokescreen?
(PDF format 793K) March 2002

Get real about food and farming - Friends of the Earth's vision for the future of farming in the UK
(PDF format) October 2001

Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(PDF format - 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 format) May 2001

Health and environmental impacts of glyphosate (PDF format) May 2001

The great food gamble
(PDF format) May 2001

Sound Science? - the evidence against Aventis' GM maize
(PDF format) Feb 2001

GMOs: The Case for a Moratorium
Oct 1998

Plunder for profit - The UK and Brazilian mahogany trade
(PDF format - 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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