DECLARATIONS FROM THE SOUTH

Members of FoE Africa from Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Tunisia and Swaziland met for five days in Accra, Ghana reviewing issues that confront the African environment. A particular focus was placed on the current food crisis and agrofuels on the continent, 11th July 2008.

Small farmers feed the world. Industrial agrofuels fuel hunger and poverty.

Via Campesina Position Paper, 24th June 2008

Climate justice groups warn of false solutions to climate change at the CBD

The Convention on Biological Diversity has increasingly allowed itself to be influenced by business interests in recent years, at the expense of ensuring a democratic equitable process... May 2008

No more “Failures-as-Usual”!

Civil Society statement on the World Food Emergency, 22nd May 2008

Social movements and organisations do not accept the export of ethanol and other agrofuels (from Brazil) and say that the production of ethanol in Brazil is not sustainable

Signed by 28 organisations and networks in Brazil, 6th May 2008.

Declaration Against RTRS Soya Greenwash

Social justice, indigenous and rural organisations and urban movements of Argentina, Latin America and other continents reject the ”third roundtable on responsible soy” to be held on April 23 and 24 at the Hilton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (March 2008)

Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina

Response to the responsible soya proposal and to the round tables held by agri-business and their collaborators, February 2008.

People’s Statement on Climate Change

Jointly issued by Tamil Nadu Environment Council (TNEC) and EQUATIONS, India, it includes a demand to ban agrofuel monocultures and plantations, December 2007.

Gender and Climate Change Caucus / MADRE statement on Agrofuels

December 2007

‘Fuelling Concerns’ - Statement on Agrofuels

By Indian farmers, people's movements and NGOs, 4th December 2007.

Declaration on agrofuels

Issued by Friends of the Earth International, 28th November 2007.

An African Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuel Developments

With over 38 signatories, November 2007.

Madre Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuels

1st November 2007

Declaration for Food and Energy Sovereignty

By 500 participants of the 1st National and Popular Conference on Agroenergy in Brazil, representing the movements of Via Campesina, environmentalists, worker's unions and pastorals, 31st October 2007.

Statement about ‘sustainable palm oil’ by organisations from Colombia and Ecuador

Signed by 12 organisations, (see also original Spanish version: Acciones de resistencia frente a los agrocombustibles), 18-19th Semptember 2007.

Farmers, indigenous peoples and settlers ask President Evo Morales of Bolivia to reject agrofuels

9th August 2007

Report of the verification field trip on the expansion of African palm monoculture in northern Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Signed by members of 29 organisations, 2nd July 2007.

Quito Declaration from the Communities Potentially Affected by Agrofuels

This declaration was read to the Minister of Energy of Ecuador, Quito, 29th June 2007

Open Letter against GM trees for biofuels

Signed by 55 organisations from North to South, June 2007.

Response by five African NGOs to UK biofuel targets

Africa Biodiversity Network, Kenya; Melca Mahiber, Ethiopia; Envirocare, Tanzania; Climate and Development Initiatives, Uganda; Nature Tropicale, Benin, June 2007

“In defence of food sovereignty and biodiversity”

Argentina, signed by Coalition of Popular Assemblies of the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro and Neuquen, Patagonia, Public Workers Union (ATE), Argentine Central Workers Association (CTA), Provincial Teachers Federation (UNTER), University Teachers Union (ADUNC), Andean Regional Neighbour's Assembly Against Plunder, Pastoral Social Alto Valle (Catholic Church), Fvske Menuco Association (indigenous communities), Rural Women's Movement (Mujeres en Lucha), Theomai Network (academic), Grupo de Reflexion Rural Argentina, Citizen's Assembly against Plunder and Contamination, National Network of Ecologist Action (RENACE, over 70 environmental organizations of Argentina), Regional Human Rights' Observatory, May 2007

“Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps”

Paraguay, signed by ALTER VIDA, ASAGRAPA, BASE IS, CCDA, CEIDRA, CMB, CNOCIP, CONAMURI, Federacion de Pueblos Guaranies, GRR (Arg), IDECO, Iniciativa Paraguaya de Integracion de los Pueblos, MAP, MCNOC, ONAC, SEPA, SERPAJ, PY, SOBREVIVENCIA/Friends of the Earth-Paraguay, Universidad Nacional de Pilar and others, April 2007

Declaration of Nyeleni

Declaration signed by over 500 representatives of 80 countries in support of the right to food sovereignty. It includes a statement against “the ‘Green Deserts’ of industrial bio-fuel monocultures and other plantations”. February 2007.

“Full tanks at the cost of empty stomachs”

Declaration on the Lula-Bush biofuels agreement, signed by Comissio Pastoral da Terra (CPT), Grito dos Excluidos, Movimento Sem Terra (MST), Servico Pastoral dos Migrantes (SPM), Rede Social de Justica e Direitos Humanos, Via Campesina, February 2007.