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24th October 2013

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

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

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

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 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

23rd August 2013

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

22nd August 2013

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

13th August 2013

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

13th August 2013

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

22nd June 2013

Maria and the Ukok Princess: Climate change and the fate of the Altai

Weaving photos and narrative, Gleb Raygorodetsky introduces us to the sacred landscape of the Ukok Plateau, its changing climate, and the quest of local kam (shaman) Maria Amanchina for the return of… Read More