Jun 16, 2020 | Deforestation
The free trade agreement between EU and MERCOSUR is going to increase the amount of forest risk commodities such as beef and soy imported in Europe. The free trade agreement between European Union and Mercosur countries could have serious consequences on the...
Apr 26, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming, One Health
According to different estimates based on FAO data, every year globally over 150 billion animals (also taking into account fishing) end up in our food production cycle, of which at least 80 billion through intensive farming. The magnitude of this number is even more...
Apr 21, 2020 | Deforestation, One Health
“The destruction of ecosystems is behind the increase of diseases of animal origin”, says Inger Andersen, director general of the UN environment program (Unep). In 2016, the United Nations Environment Program UNEP published a report (Frontiers 2016) in...
Apr 7, 2020 | Deforestation, One Health
The invisible link between the emergence of new epidemics, deforestation and our consumption and production patterns 2020 will go down in history as the year we faced the Covid-19 pandemic. 2019 as the year in which, from the Amazon to Australia, we reached record...