News & Press

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

11th January 2018 News

The Oxford Real Farming Conference Sets the Tone for an Abundant 2018

There is no better way to start the year than to surround yourselves with energetic, committed and inspiring folk from across the food justice movement. The Oxford Real Farming conference… Read More

11th January 2018 News

A new alliance to protect marine biodiversity in the southern Atlantic

The Southwest Atlantic has one of the world’s richest marine environments. Myriad species depend on its health to survive, from marine mammals, such as dolphins, elephant seals and sperm whales,… Read More

8th January 2018 News

Community led food and agricultural research: reflecting on experiences from Africa by Liz Hosken

The Food Ethics Council have just released a new report For Whom? Questioning the Food & Farming Research Agenda which features an article from Gaia’s Liz Hosken regarding our experiences… Read More

2nd January 2018 News

A sad farewell to Ricardo Marín, Barasana shaman of the Colombian Amazon

Ricardo Marín, a charismatic indigenous leader from the Pirá Paraná River in the Colombian Amazon, has played a key role in taking the experience of indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazon… Read More

14th December 2017 News

Interview: Eco-mapping for cultural and ecological revival in Uganda’s great lakes region.

Around our planet home we are witnessing an on-going mass extinction not only of species, but of the deeply entwined ecological and cultural knowledge that has enabled human societies to… Read More

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