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Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure
The krill fishery in the Southern Ocean has closed more than three months early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons - a precautionary quota established to prevent overfishing Francesco De AugustinisOn Aug. 12, for the second year in a row, the...
Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean
The proposal looks to protect 22,405 square kilometers (8,651 square miles) of marine waters, primarily in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean around the Canary Islands, as well as four sites in the Mediterranean Sea. Francesco De AugustinisThe Spanish government has...
Animal Leather and Deforestation: What’s Going On, and Why Has Europe Backtracked?
Leather has been excluded from the list of commodities covered by the European Union’s new Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which will come into force on 30 December 2026. by Francesco De AugustinisLeather will no longer be among the commodities covered by the...
Nitrogen, Drought, and Extreme Heat: The Effects of Intensive Livestock Farming in the Po Valley
The high concentration of livestock farms in Italy's Food Valley and the impacts during the heatwave. by Francesco De AugustinisThe landscape passing by outside the car window is repetitive: one large livestock building after another—intensive pig farms, cattle barns,...
Farming the Sea: Aquaculture Expansion and the Transformation of Coastal Life in Western Greece
Plans to expand fish farms along Greece's coasts and their impact on landscapes, ecosystems and communities. by Panayotis AnagnostakisWhen Spyros Kounadis was 20 years old, Astakos coastline was an open stretch of sea dotted by small ports and fishing boats. Now, the...
China and Norway push to increase krill harvests around Antarctica
China and Norway are working to expand the Southern Ocean krill fishery, promoting a new management system for the fishery that would increase harvests while also establishing a long-sought marine protected area. Francesco De AugustinisChina and Norway are working to...
Modest controls put on freewheeling squid fleet at South Pacific fisheries meeting
The 14th meeting of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) took place in Panama City from March 2-6. Key decisions concerned tightening regulation of the jumbo flying squid fishery following increased fishing activity and signals of...
China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses
A new report from U.K.-based NGO the Environmental Justice Foundation documents frequent labor abuses affecting crew members, documents regular shark finning, targeted hunting of marine mammals, and involvement in suspected illegal fishing incidents.Labor abuses...
The migratory effect of fishmeal factories in the Gambia
A study measured the social impact of fishmeal factories in the Gambia. Fishmeal and fish oil production is exported to produce feeds for aquaculture. by Francesco De AugustinisPeople leave, abandon their villages, and set out by sea towards Europe because their...
No man’s water: China’s 17,000-vessel DWF fleet and the rush for the high seas
Beijing's strategy for the control of fishing territories in international waters, driving conflicts over resources and the stalemate at international tables for the protection of the oceansSeen from space, they look like floating metropolises: thousands of lights...
The project for a tuna fattening plant on the Amalfi Coast
The project of the Italian tuna fishing industry in Cetara (SA) could begin its operations as early as 2026 by Francesco De AugustinisIn the municipality of Cetara, a small gem nestled at the southern tip of the Amalfi Coast, in the gulf overlooking Salerno,...
Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules
"No step forward" on protecting the Southern Ocean and regulating krill fisheries at CCAMLR annual meeting by Francesco De AugustinisThe annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean concluded on...
ONE EARTH doc is an independent investigative project to research the environmental, social and ethical impact of the global food system.
We investigate the ever-increasing animal production and the further intensification in factory farming.
We follow a One Health approach: human health is deeply related to animal health and environmental health. So what happens to humankind when the balance gets broken?
We expose the “side effects” of the food system, including deforestation, land, water and resources grabbing, loss of biodiversity, chemical pollution, social impacts.
We also include in our research the ethical matter, investigating the cultural and religious roots that brought us to an unbalanced and unethical food system, that is now jeopardizing our life in this planet.
Journalistic investigations and documentaries
ONE EARTH doc is an independent journalistic project. The main outputs are:
- Feature stories published on international media, investigating the global food system, factory farms, environmental and social matters, fishery and fish farms, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, human health, food security, ethics.
- A series of documentaries investigating different aspects of an unsustainable food system.
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The budget will be used to produce the documentary and the video inquires (video production, editing, post production, distribution).
About us
One Earth is an independent project, based on the team of professionals that worked on the production of Deforestation Made in Italy (feature documentary, ITA, 2019, 67′), about tropical deforestation and the import of forest risk commodities in Europe and Italy, and ONE EARTH – Everything is connected (feature documentary, ITA, 2021, 93′), about the impact of the iper-industrialization of the food system.