News & Press

13th January 2014 Gaia in the press

Global Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal in Ecuador

This week (13-17th January) the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature is holding its first international summit on the Rights of Nature in Ecuador. Around 50 Rights of Nature advocates and practitioners… Read More

3rd December 2013 Gaia in the press

“Women in Mining” event challenged by “Women resisting Mining”

Earlier this month the Gaia team and a number of allies joined forces with the London Mining Network to demonstrate outside the ‘Mines and Money’ conference at the Business Design… Read More

29th November 2013 Gaia in the press

New Film – Seeds of Sovereignty

As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film offers a compelling insight into the ways in which African farming communities… Read More

18th November 2013 Gaia in the press

Agriculture unable to adapt due to financial freeze in Warsaw, say developing countries

Press release from the Gaia Foundation. Monday 18 November 2013 [Warsaw, Poland] Adaptation in agriculture cannot happen without financial support, is the bleak message from developing countries at the UN… Read More

26th October 2013 Gaia in the press

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

24th October 2013 Gaia in the press

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

18th October 2013 Gaia in the press

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

15th October 2013 Gaia in the press

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

6th September 2013 News

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

4th September 2013 Gaia in the press

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

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