Gaia Publications & Reports
The State of Seed Survey, UK
In Spring 2021 the Landworkers’ Alliance and the Gaia Foundation Seed Sovereignty Programme worked together to survey farmers and growers across the UK to gather the views and experiences of… Read More
Guide: protecting your community from the extractive industries
A how-to guide for resisting mining and extractivism anywhere and everywhere. Read this classic how-to guide for resisting mining, re-designed by the Yes to Life, No to Mining solidarity… Read More
Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution
First published in 1985 by agronomist Francis Chaboussou, Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution is republished online in full here for the first time! A forgotten classic, Healthy Crops offers… Read More
Wh@t on Earth: How digital technology is disconnecting us from ourselves, each other and our living planet
Wh@t on Earth?! (2018) argues that digital technology is disconnecting us from ourselves, each other and our living planet – at a time when re-engaging with the Earth is more urgent than… Read More
Mining: When is Enough, Enough?
Taking the example of two minerals – gold and copper- as well as non-mineral fossil fuels, Mining – When is Enough, Enough? argues that the continued extraction of these materials from… Read More
UnderMining the Water Cycle – Extractive Industries & a Planetary Water Crisis
UnderMining the Water Cycle explores the role the extractive industries are playing in exacerbating the global freshwater crisis. Globally more than a billion people, one in seven on the planet,… Read More
Celebrating African Rural Women: Custodians of Seed, Food & Traditional Knowledge – A Report from Gaia
Celebrating African Rural Women: Custodians of Seed, Food & Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Resilience is a report from The Gaia Foundation in collaboration with the African Biodiversity Network and… Read More
UnderMining Agriculture – How the Extractives Industries Threaten our Food Systems
The Gaia Foundation’s report – UnderMining Agriculture- How the Extractives Industries Threaten our Food Systems exposes the hidden costs of mining on food, water, land, air and climate, showing how… Read More
Recognising Sacred Natural Sites and Territories in Kenya
Our 2012 report, produced with the African Biodiversity Network and the Institute for Culture & Ecology, provides analysis of Kenya’s legal and policy framework, and recommendations for securing greater recognition of the country’s sacred… Read More
A Call for Legal Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites & Territories and their Customary Governance Systems
As the scramble for Africa’s land continues – driven by the insatiable appetite to extract and profit from the Earth – this report brings forth the voice of custodian communities… Read More