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This Spring-Summer we’re presenting a trilogy of unique, lunch-time talks in partnership with 42 Acres Shoreditch. Gaia’s founding Director Liz Hosken will kick things off on Tuesday 15th May with… Read More

Method Gundidza, from Zimbabwe, one of the first graduates from Gaia’s training for African Earth Jurisprudence practitioners, joins international panelists at the 8th Interactive Dialogue of the UN General Assembly… Read More

Gaia’s Hannibal Rhoades and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello meet the activist, ethnobotanist and business leader strengthening life-sustaining alternatives to destructive, conflict-ridden mining in Colombia. Originally published in Red Pepper Magazine. On the 26th March… Read More

In the most important step for Amazon indigenous rights in 30 years, through a new decree, Colombia has recognised the autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon.   On Tuesday… Read More

Rafaela Graça Scheiffer, from Brazil – a valued intern for Gaia’s Earth Jurisprudence programme – has studied both biological and holistic sciences. She shares her own journey into discovering the… Read More

In response to a legal writ from a group of 25 children and young people, accompanied by Dejusticia, Colombia’s Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that calls on the Government… Read More

The small town of Piedras became the first community in Colombia to hold a public referendum on the fate of a mining project – and later banned what would have been the… Read More

A year ago this rural community used direct democracy to stop what would have been the world’s largest gold mine. Their example has inspired 50 Colombian communities to challenge corporate… Read More

Ellen Rignell is the West of England Regional Coordinator of Gaia’s Seed Sovereignty UK and Ireland Programme. Here she talks about the latest trainings and appetite for agroecological seed production… Read More

Nestled in Galicia’s fertile hills, the commons community of Froxán is engaged in a struggle to protect its territory and history from Spanish miner Sacyr’s plans to re-open the San Finx… Read More