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Seed Diversity Key to Weathering the Storms Ahead
Originally featured on the Thomson Reuters website, Gaia’s Teresa Anderson explains why seed diversity is critical for all that lies ahead. If the now-daily incidences of extreme weather events around the… Read More

News “No Go Areas” for Extractives & Greater Protection for Sacred Natural Sites – the call from WILD10
Gaia was joined by international groups and indigenous leaders at WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), in calling for wilderness and conservation areas to be respected as No Go… Read More

GM agriculture is not the answer to seed diversity – It’s part of the problem
GM agriculture is not the answer to seed diversity – It’s part of the problem We need policies and practices that ensure farmers’ seed-saving knowledge is passed down to future… Read More

New Report says farming won’t adapt to climate change without seed diversity
The new report, “Seeds for Life: scaling up agrobiodiversity”, highlights how the dramatic loss of global seed diversity in recent decades means that farming systems around the world now and in… Read More

Let’s set the Record Straight! Teresa Anderson unpacks AGRA’s plan for GMOs in Africa
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has released a new “Africa Agriculture Status” report that reveals what we all suspected: that they plan to use their influence… Read More

Gaia Associate voted one of Colombia’s Top 10 Leaders
For protecting the Amazon and the rights of indigenous communities through forums for dialogue between society and the state, and defending cultural and biological diversity from the latent risks of development,… Read More

Communities in Colombia and Balcombe, UK, United in their Resistance against Extraction
Activists who are resisting a gold mine in Piedras, Colombia, have this week reached out to the communities of Balcombe in Sussex, to show solidarity and support for their parallel… Read More

Can Chiribiquete help protect the Amazon from mining?
Colombia now has the largest protected area in the Amazon, with the expansion of Chiribiquete National Park. Chiribiquete, declared a National Park in 1989, officially increased in size from 1,298 ,954… Read More

African Civil Society Organisations to Counter Corporatisation of African Agriculture
This week the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will come together in Ethiopia to discuss strategies for resistance against genetically modified seed, Bill Gate’s Alliance for a Green… Read More

Gaia joins allies for GM Health Risk Week 2nd – 8th September
Next month we join forces with War on Want, Food Democracy Now and the UK Food Sovereignty Movement to help raise awareness of GM Health Risk Week. The event promises… Read More
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