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Improving household nutrition through diversifying household seed – The story of Ms Mildred Muchabaiwa, a farmer from the Gangare community in Bikita District, Zimbabwe

Miss Mildred Muchabaiwa is a young farmer in her early 30s living in Bikita, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Through the community dialogues and agroecology training offered by EarthLore Foundation, Mildred has come to appreciate traditional seeds and has been amazed by her harvests during the 2019/20 farming season. This has been…

Custodians of Life- Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes

Custodians of Life- Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes, a new film from The Gaia Foundation, ANARDE, NAPE and AFRICE[1], explores how the Bagungu Indigenous People are reviving their Earth-centred culture and the diversity and health of critical ecosystems. Continue reading

Bringing Bikita’s diversity to Harare’s Good Food Festival

By Sara Davies Fourteen farmers from Bikita, Zimbabwe, took part in the Good Food Festival, a 3-day celebration of organic and traditional food and seed in the capital city of Harare. The farmers, all women, were accompanied by EarthLore to attend the event, from the first day of Farmer Dialogues,…

Millet Threshing Ceremony, Bikita, Zimbabwe

Millet Threshing Ceremony, Bikita, Zimbabwe – 23 August 2019 Since 2015, Bikita farmers in Zimbabwe have been working with EarthLore to revive their robust traditional seeds that cope better with climate change. A significant development has been to revive millet, over hybrid maize, as the staple food in the area,…

UN Declaration on the rights of peasants

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Bikita Seed and Food Fair 2019

Over 1000 people attended the two-day Bikita Traditional Seed & Food Fair on 21 & 22 August 2019. This was the third year the Bikita farmers hosted the event at Chamas Garden in the village of Gangare with the support of EarthLore and the Zimbabwe Small-scale Organic Farmers’ Forum (ZimSOFF).…

Interview with Earthlore’s Method Gundidza – CCFD Terre Solidaire

Method Gundidza represented EarthLore Foundation at the International Forum on Well-being, held in Grenoble, Southern France, on 8 June 2018. In this video he shares his views about how human well-being is inextricably connected to the well-being of our planet, Mother Earth, and that of our fellow beings with whom…

CYCLONE IDAI, CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND EARTH JURISPRUDENCE

By Method Gundidza Diversity is a fundamental law of Nature for anyone who has eyes to see. As one crop failed another one managed; as one bean variety failed another bean variety thrived. Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Method Gundidza, who works with Earthlore, shares first-hand reflections from the frontlines of…

What is Earth Jurisprudence?

“We are born into and embedded in the ways and cycles of life and their laws.”

Gaia’s Director, Liz Hosken, explains what Earth Jurisprudence is, as part of a week of communications marking the 10th Anniversary of cultural historian and philosopher Thomas Berry, who coined the term.

Small Scale Agroecology Orientation Course – Enaleni Farm, KZN, South Africa

On the 6 – 11 November, 2018, Earthlore facilitated an Agroecology Orientation Course specifically for small scale farmers. The course was held at Enaleni Farm in KZN, South Africa and was led by Farmer and Agroecologist, Richard Haigh. The participants were accompanied by Earthlore’s Method Gundidza. A summary report of…

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