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Seed Sovereignty

14th December 2020

Our seeds are our stories: Seed Week event

Join the Seed Sovereignty Programme for an evening of exploring the connections between seeds, stories, culture and hope for the future. Buy/book your tickets here. For many of us, our… Read More

2nd December 2020

5 ways to support regenerative farming this Christmas!

Gaia’s Rowan Phillimore shares how to support regenerative farming this Christmas. See our five gift recommendations and read more about a ground breaking year for small growers of food and… Read More

14th September 2020

Frontline Food – a new podcast

A new podcast that gives voice to the radical, grassroots stories of our food systems has just been launched – Frontline Food. Through interviews with leading food sovereignty activists, including… Read More

7th September 2020

We Feed the World – a global photographic project

From the icy waters of Northern Sweden to the humid depths of the Amazon rainforest, We Feed the World explores the triumphs of small-scale farmers and fisher-people who feed themselves and others… Read More

22nd June 2020

We’re going on an Oat Quest…

Restoring seed diversity and farmers’ sovereignty over the seeds they grow is key to realising a just, equitable, nutritious and climate-change-resilient food system now and in the future. This is… Read More

3rd April 2020

The Ecologist: The need for seed in times of crisis

In a new article for The Ecologist, Gaia’s Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Sinead Fortune, explores how this time of crisis is creating fertile ground to plant the seeds of a more… Read More

28th February 2020

BBC takes up our ‘Oat Quest’

Gaia’s Wales Seed Sovereignty Coordinator, Katie Hastings, and growers across Wales are on a quest to find small-scale, low-tech ways of processing the rare welsh oat varieties being revived by… Read More

7th January 2020

Our Rare Welsh Oats: reviving heritage grain in Wales

Originally published by The A Team Foundation By Katie Hastings, Seed Sovereignty Programme Regional Coordinator for Wales at the Gaia Foundation. On a sharp day on the cliffs of the… Read More

20th May 2019

Podcast: Transforming the food system for Planet Gaia

Small farmers produce most of the world’s food, but face huge threats at a time when we need more local food systems, less insane trade, and a movement to revive… Read More

20th March 2018

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