[Fts-research] Update

[Annie]

Hey Nicole,

Thanks for all this, it is looking great with lots of really important 
points to cover. Do you want to divide the work / subsections up 
slightly between the people on this list? It looks like a lot of things 
to be covered by you, although maybe there are more people planning to 
work on it at Corporate Watch? Also some of the information you can just 
take from the company file you can find on the cloud as some of the 
points are covered in that document. And also with the alternatives, we 
have information within ASEED that we could share with you so that you 
don't have to do the same work twice!

My main point about the order of the subsections is that I would move 
the "Controversy" section to the bottom or before the alternatives. Of 
course it is important to know what kind of controversies Yara has been 
involved in and also shows how despicable these multinational 
corporations can be, but I think we need to have the main focus on Yara 
and it's affect on climate change, threat to food security, greenwashing 
etc which you cover after the point about "Controversy". It feels like 
the point of the Free the Soil campaign is to highlight Yara in relation 
to its impact on climate change throught the production of synthetic 
nitrogen fertilizer and and the fact that no one knows this, so this 
should continue to be our focus. However, I do like your idea to make a 
map of all these controversies to show visually where Yara is and where 
people could potentially do local decentralised actions.

The other thing is now we have had contact with Belen and Pascoe from 
Corporate Europe Observatory and they will most probably write something 
on EU lobbying so it would be good not to overlap.

Ok, let me know what you think to those comments. And thank you a lot 
for the work you have done so far!

Cheers,
Annie


On 2019-06-26 13:14, Nicole Corporate Watch wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> Apologies, my research with this Gold Mining campaign has taken longer
> than expected.
> 
> I have started to do some Yara research. So far, mapping the
> controversies and making a directory that can accompany the article
> with all the locations on one page in case of decentralised actions. I
> also did some shareholder research. I need to copy what I am doing on
> crabgrass into the cloud, I keep forgetting!
> 
> I have attached an overview of the article I am planning to write. It
> will obviously be significantly larger than one blog post, so we are
> hoping to format it into a pdf/report that can be downloaded also.
> 
> Can people take a look and give me feedback of what is missing? Is it
> what you were hoping for?
> 
> Massive thanks,
> 
> Nicole
> 
> On 14/06/2019 08:07, Annie wrote:
> 
>> Hey Research team!
>> 
>> How is everyone?
>> 
>> Is anyone going to make it to the meeting this weekend? I cannot as
>> I have to work on the farm and no one can cover for me this
>> weekend!!
>> 
>> I just sent an email to the fts list with a link to the company file
>> about Yara that I uploaded onto the FTS cloud. This is a piece of
>> work from Flip, Katie, Jula and I who are based in the Netherlands.
>> It needs more work but at least I wanted to show that something has
>> been happening on the research side of things.
>> 
>> Hope it goes well this weekend and hope to see you all soon if not
>> in September!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Annie
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