Rainforest Action Network

The massive soy and palm plantations U.S. agribusinesses are establishing in rainforests around the world squelch nearby subsistence farming and deprive local and Indigenous farmers of their traditional means of feeding themselves. Industrial farming does far more damage to the environment than small-scale family farming; it also displaces communities and corrodes traditional cultures. Support small-scale family farming in your purchases.

• Agribusiness in the Rainforest: Stories from Frontline Communities
• People’s Rights vs. Agribusiness: the Case of Food Sovereignty
• Case Study: Kararata Mini Estates
• Report: Towards a Green Food System
• Grassroots International

Beware of imitations. Multinational loggers armed with multi-million dollar Public Relations contracts are pushing imitations, such as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), designed to evade higher standards and mislead consumers.

Learn more about certification standards at the links below.

• credibleforestcertification.org
• buygoodwood.com

Canada’s treaties with First Nations guarantee them the right to practice customary activities like hunting and trapping on their traditional territory. But logging companies like Weyerhaeuser have ignored the right of northwestern Ontario’s Grassy Narrows First Nation to give free, prior and informed consent for any industrial activities on its land. RAN is working closely with the Grassy Narrows community to ensure that Canada’s government and companies like Weyerhaeuser respect treaty obligations.

• Free Grassy Narrows

By balancing boardroom negotiations with grassroots pressure, RAN’s Global Finance team is holding banks accountable for the climate-changing industries they finance. Don’t let Wall Street use your money to bankroll climate change. See how you can become a part of the solution.

• Banks: Twelve Steps for Climate
• Banks: Calculating Climate Footprints
• Bank Policies
• Canadian banks’ checking account carbon-footprint calculator

Use our fact sheets to spread the word in your community about what many have called the most destructive industrial project on earth.

• Help stop the Tar Sands
• Banking in Canada? Investigate your bank at climatefriendlybanking.com.