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2nd July 2014

Benin’s Historic Sacred Forest Law Translated into English

GRABE-Benin and The Gaia Foundation are pleased to share a much awaited English translation of the 2012 Beninese law recognising sacred forests and their custodian communities. This significant precedent for the legal… Read More

30th June 2014

Kayapo Chiefs Raoni and Megaron say ‘Yes to Life, No to Mining and Mega Dams’

On the 10th of June The Gaia Foundation was honoured to host Kayapo Chiefs Raoni Metuktire and Megaron Txucarramae as they passed through London on their European tour. The meeting brought together… Read More

10th June 2014

10 Good News Stories from the Worldwide Movement Against the GM Industry

In recent weeks there has been a wave of good news stories from the movement to keep GM crops (and toxic pesticides) out of our fields, out of supply chains… Read More

29th May 2014

Hungry for Land: Small Farmers Feed the World on Less than a Quarter of the Land

Extract taken from GRAIN’s website. Full article and pdf of the reports are available here. “It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world’s food. But how… Read More

29th May 2014

The Transformation of Pluspetrol’s Oil-slicked Reality into an Award-winning Fallacy

Taken from the Alianza Arkana website. Read the original article and report here.  Argentinian-based oil company, Pluspetrol, long-time contaminator and human rights violator, won the “2013 Sustainable Development Award” from its industry… Read More

1st April 2014

UN Climate experts: Green Revolution leaves food systems vulnerable to climate change

The United Nations’ experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have stated that the so-called “green revolution” is leaving agriculture vulnerable to climate change, and that new approaches… Read More

6th March 2014

Colombian and Ghanaian Communities Unite in Solidarity Against Mining

Kindling an international correspondence across 5,000 miles of land and sea, last week anti-mining activists from Doima (Colombia) and Krobo (Ghana) reached out to one another to express solidarity in… Read More

19th February 2014

Guardian releases short edit of Seeds of Justice film.

Watch the 4 minute taster of our upcoming Seeds of Justice film here. The Guardian has released a short edit of our upcoming film, Seeds of Justice, to accompany its coverage… Read More

10th February 2014

Nothing in Nature is Wasted – Why shouldn’t business be the same?

An article by Rowan Phillimore, originally published in The Guardian – Gaia Principles Offer a Sustainable Way to Manage Supply and Legacy – Monday 10th February 2014 A study of… Read More

4th February 2014

Judges travel to the Amazon for public hearing on Yaigoje Apaporis and gold mining

Three members of the Constitutional Court have made an unprecedented trip to the heart of the Amazon forest, to settle a three-year legal battle on the future of Colombia’s third… Read More