[Fts-research] Update

[Annie]

p.s.
I just uploaded loads of articles in all the different sections of the 
research folder on the FTS cloud, so maybe you can find some useful 
information there!
On 2019-06-26 16:04, Annie wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> Ok nice.
> 
> Yes there is some information on the ASEED website, some on the FTS
> cloud in the Alternatives folder. But then also I have some stuff on
> my computer here, maybe I can upload that onto the cloud, or I can try
> to write something and send it over in line with your subheadings.
> Although sounds like you also have some interesting sources to tap
> into.
> 
> Definitely up for giving feedback and contributions once your skeleton
> is up and running.
> 
> Thanks Nicole!
> 
> Annie
> 
> 
> On 2019-06-26 15:49, Nicole Corporate Watch wrote:
>> Hey!
>> 
>> Yes I am using the research already undertaken in the company
>> profiling document :) I am happy to do a lot of the work but it would
>> be great to have feedback and contributions once the 'skeleton' is
>> ready.
>> 
>> That would be great to have your existing info on alternatives! Is
>> that on the ASEED website? I also have a lot of existing agroecology
>> resources I can use for this too.
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback about the structure, I will integrate that
>> now!
>> 
>> That's great about the lobbying stuff already being covered.
>> 
>> Big thanks,
>> 
>> Nicole
>> 
>> On 26/06/2019 13:50, Annie wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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