For many years ASEED has been questioning large scale soy production in South America and the use of soy as animal feed in Europe. Even though the negative impact of that kind of intensive farming on people and nature has become more widely known in the past years, production and imports are still rising. As an extra danger WWF, Solidaridad and big corporations are greenwashing the use of soy by giving it a ‘sustainable label’.
A climate agreement was reached in Paris in December 2015 to keep the global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and strive towards 1.5 degrees. To achieve this, and for … verder lezen
Interested in feeding your thoughts and fueling your belly? Join us at the info-day ‘Cooking the Planet’ on the 16th of April in Amsterdam! This day will feed your brain and fuel … verder lezen
Call out CJA Meeting 18-20 March 2016 in Amsterdam Two months since COP21; since governments claimed they’d made history; since tens of thousands of us were in the streets of Paris, Europe, … verder lezen
ASEED and friends gathered outside the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on the 26th of January, 2016, to inform those attending a debate with Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) … verder lezen
In the north region of the Rocha Municipality in Uruguay, farmers are using rice hulls in compost to obtain a high quality organic fertilizer. This process eliminates waste, recycles micronutrients into the … verder lezen