Over 100 organisations and leading experts from around the world are ramping up their calls on the FAO to urgently retract a key report, after the FAO doubled down on serious methodological errors that downplay the emissions reduction potential of lower-meat and dairy diets.

105 organisations are calling on global private banks to address their role in financing industrial livestock production, which accelerates climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and animal welfare and human rights abuses.

Over 100 organisations and leading experts from around the world are calling on the FAO to urgently retract a key report, due to serious errors that downplay the emissions reduction potential of lower-meat and dairy diets.

Feedback, alongside nearly 50 partner organisations, call on the European Commission, European Council, European Parliament and EU member states to support legally binding targets to reduce food waste from farm to fork by 2030, and for food waste measurement and targets to include edible food left unharvested or used on farm at primary production.

We along with other organisations urge IFC shareholders not to grant the proposed loan of up to US$200 million to Louis Dreyfus Company Brazil (LDC) for the purchase of soy and corn produced in the heavily threatened Cerrado biome of Brazil, the world’s most biodiverse savanna that has already lost roughly half of its native vegetation to agribusiness.

“Both the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have shed light on the weaknesses of the
European food system.”

Read our joint letter on EU food supply and solidarity response to the war in Ukraine.