2025-12-21T15:36:00-08:00 2025-08-31 311776185 Anthony F Armento CPA PC 1502 W NC Hwy 54 Suite 503 Durham NC 27707 990 2024-09-01 134181753 Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration FRIE 5106491475 441 Avon St Oakland CA 94618 Gopal Dayeneni Treasurer 2025-12-17 true true Anthony F Armento P00127232 9199333421 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 441 Avon St Oakland CA 946181023 1830569 false X www.friendsofetc.org X 2001 NC The mission of Friends of ETC Group is to protect biodiversity and to advance the creation of a just and sustainable food security and sustainable livelihood system for the benefit of rural areas and societies. 6 6 0 0 911693 1830569 0 0 0 911693 1830569 916989 1810900 0 0 0 785 3284 3575 920273 1814475 -8580 16094 19532 35626 0 19532 35626 The mission of Friends of ETC Group is to protect biodiversity and to advance the creation of a just and sustainable food security and sustainable livelihood system for the benefit of rural areas and societies. false false 1811500 The Organization works toward its goals of promoting biodiversity and advancing just and sustainable food security and livelihood systems for the benefit of rural areas and societies largely through educational activities and by supporting the work of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Canada, and by supporting the work of other organizations aligned with its educational aims.During the fiscal year 2024/2025 the Organization supported increased in-person engagement with its partners and increased participation in international fora, with the aim to advance organizing, education and advocacy on critical issues related to food systems, climate change, biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods and technological change. The Organization engaged in multiple UN spaces, including the 30th conference of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity where, along with partners, it maintained a moratorium on real world experiments in geoengineering. Building on this momentum, it organized to win a major victory at the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), where agreement to a text forcefully rejecting Solar Radiation Management and calling for a solar geoengineering Non-Use Agreement was reached. The Organization continues to have a strong presence, with its partners, in the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Organization continued its strong relationship with groups in Latin America on Technology Assessment and the impacts of technology on farmers, indigenous peoples and biodiversity by providing research on topics ranging from corporate impacts on oceans and the impacts for fisher folk to the expanding role of AI and big data in food systems. It also supported many significant workshops with local partners in Latin America.Over the past Fiscal Year, the Organization have played a critical role in supporting the global convergence of small holder farmers, peasants, indigenous peoples and others advocates for a just and fair food system at a global convening on Food Sovereignty. It provided critical support in preparatory meetings, communication, narrative strategy and providing educational resources on the role of technologies in food systems. The very successful gathering was held in September, 2025 however the major organizing took place in the 24/25 fiscal year.As technological acceleration is super-charged through AI, the Organization has increasingly put its attention towards bringing greater understanding to communities and policy makers about the implications of AI, Data Centers and the new tech-titans on various communities, particularly in Africa and Latin America through reports and workshops. Two of the Organization's major publications released in 2024/25 include The Politics of Technology, that was co-created with partners, and Autonomy in the Face of Ag Tech. Both exist in six languages now (English, Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Hindi and Swahili) in various formats. The Organization also supported the further development of the website, https://assess.technology, which helps disseminate research and educational materials on technology. 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