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Food, Seed and Climate Change Resilience

3rd April 2020

The Ecologist: The need for seed in times of crisis

In a new article for The Ecologist, Gaia’s Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Sinead Fortune, explores how this time of crisis is creating fertile ground to plant the seeds of a more… Read More

31st March 2020

Media Release: New film explores cultural and ecological revival in Uganda’s Great Lakes region

31st March 2020. Kampala | London – In the midst of climate emergency and a global coronavirus pandemic caused by ecological destruction, a Ugandan Indigenous community is demonstrating the vital… Read More

18th March 2020

Navigating coronavirus: plant seeds, buy local, care for community

Any crisis brings out the best and the worst in humanity. Like many of you, we in the Gaia Team are talking about, thinking about and taking action in response… Read More

1st March 2020

Snowchange: Training the next generation of ice fishermen

In a new interactive story, Gaia’s Finnish partner organisation the Snowchange Cooperative share their efforts to train young people in Finland’s ancient ice-fishing traditions, as the impacts of climate change… Read More

28th February 2020

BBC takes up our ‘Oat Quest’

Gaia’s Wales Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Katie Hastings, and growers across Wales are on a quest to find small-scale, low-tech ways of processing the rare welsh oat varieties being revived by… Read More

18th February 2020

In Defence of Life: the story of Cajamarca, Colombia

Deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains Earth defenders from Cajamarca have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop… Read More

7th January 2020

Our Rare Welsh Oats: reviving heritage grain in Wales

Originally published by The A Team Foundation By Katie Hastings, Seed Sovereignty Programme Regional Coordinator for Wales at the Gaia Foundation. On a sharp day on the cliffs of the… Read More

18th November 2019

It’s Seed Week!

Seeds lie at the heart of our food systems and much of life on Earth. If we want to enjoy nutritious, healthy food for all in a climate-changed world, we… Read More

15th October 2019

In Photos: Tharakans map their past, present and future

This photo story explores how indigenous Tharakan People from central Kenya are reviving their Earth-centred customary laws, sacred natural sites, indigenous seeds and the life of their territory in climate-changed… Read More

14th October 2019

We Adapt, We Restore, We Survive: Reviving Tahltan knowledge, governance and territory

Originally published by Gaia’s Finnish partners The Snowchange Cooperative, this article announces the launch of a new multimedia exploration of the Tahltan First Nation’s efforts to revive culture and nature… Read More