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Uganda: Reweaving the basket of life
After three years of intensive intergenerational dialogues, this November indigenous communities living along the shores of Uganda’s Lake Albert came together to map their future; a future of abundant food,… Read More

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

Custodians of Life: Meet the Ugandan women reviving indigenous seeds
Kagole and Mildred are smallholder farmers from Buliisa District, Western Uganda. In this interview they describe the virtues of indigenous seed varieties, losses in the diversity of these seeds, and how,… Read More

Seed: The Untold Story comes to the UK
Gaia is pleased to be partnering with Collective Eye Films on the UK release of the award-winning documentary, SEED: The Untold Story, from filmmakers Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz. SEED: The… Read More

Seed Project Internship Now Available
We are pleased to announce that we have a one-off paid internship placement available for 4 months, starting later this month. Please find full details below and send your CV… Read More

World Food Day and The Great Seed Festival
Today is World Food Day and the perfect time to take stock of the wonderful array of events which have taken place as part of this years’ Great Seed Festival,… Read More

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

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

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

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
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