News & Press

20th March 2018 News

South West Seed Savers Cooperative Get Growing

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

16th March 2018 News

Froxán: help defend one of Europe’s first legally recognised Commons communities

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

8th March 2018 News

Custodians of Life: Meet the Ugandan women reviving indigenous seeds

Kagole and Mildred are smallholder farmers from Buliisa District, Western Uganda. In this interview they describe the virtues of indigenous seed varieties, losses in the diversity of these seeds, and how,… Read More

7th March 2018 News

Event: Science and Spiritual Practices, with Rupert Sheldrake

On the 9th May Gaia will host celebrated scientist Rupert Sheldrake to explore how and why western science is increasingly re-valuing millennia-old spiritual practices from meditation to Nature connection. Find… Read More

6th March 2018 News

Event: Celebrating the Colombian municipality that stopped a mega mine

On 26th March Gaia and a host of collaborators will welcome visitors from Colombia to London for an event celebrating the town of Cajamarca’s successful campaign to protect land, water… Read More

27th February 2018 News

Näätämö River restoration project receives major new support, Finland

Unique climate change work bringing together traditional knowledge and science to restore the Näätämö River watershed in northern Finland has received significant new support from the Kone Foundation. Kone has provided… Read More

15th February 2018 News

Farewell to Dr Sue Edwards, “an African at heart”

With great sadness, we bid farewell to Dr. Sue Edwards – an indomitable spirit and founding Director of Ethiopia’s Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD). Sue passed away on 14th February.  … Read More

2nd February 2018 News

Looking North: Gaia and the Snowchange Cooperative unite

The Gaia Foundation is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Snowchange Cooperative. Based in Finland, Snowchange is run by Finns devoted to the advancement of their traditions and… Read More

17th January 2018 News

Gaia’s highlights from 2017

“Reflecting through the lens of ‘emergence’, this year has been one where things have shifted to a new level in most areas of our work, weaving our basket to another… Read More

15th January 2018 News

The urge to find ‘true self’, and the mesmerising Earth Jurisprudence graduation

Mersha Yilma, from Ethiopia, shares his journey as one of the first graduates from Gaia’s African Earth Jurisprudence practitioners training. From a farming family in eastern rural Ethiopia, he has… Read More

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