Raw materials - raw deal

Many of the world’s poorest countries are rich in valuable raw materials. And many of the world’s richest countries want to get their hands on them!

We’re campaigning to stop the European Union stealing developing countries’ valuable raw materials. Help us to ensure that these countries have the right to control their resources to benefit their people and the environment.

Take action

• Contact your MEP: Use our campaign postcard to ask your Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to help put a responsible approach to raw materials at the heart of EU trade and investment policy. Find out who your MEPs are.
• Stay involved: Sign up to receive all the latest news and actions by post or email.

Find out more

• Check out our handy Questions and Answers on the raw materials campaign.
• How Kenya did it: Find out how Kenya developed its leather industry (Opens in PDF).
• In brief: find out how Europe’s approach to trade in raw materials threatens poor countries and the environment and what Members of the European Parliament can do about it from our three briefing papers
• The full story: Read Traidcraft’s new report ‘The New Resource Grab: How EU Trade Policy on Raw Materials is Undermining Development’.