EarthLore: Seed|Justice|Sacred Lands

EarthLore works with rural communities to accompany them on a journey to revive their traditional ecological knowledge and practices, seed diversity and farming and governance systems, essential for navigating climate change and defending their land against growing threats from mining and industrial exploitation. .

SEED

Within a relatively few years, the dominant story of seeds has become one of loss, control, dependence, debt and death. It is the story...

As the industrial growth economy reaches further into rural areas, land grabbing has become a globally recognised challenge. Extractive industries such as coal mining, tourism, mono-crop industrial agriculture, timber plantations – are all after land and massive amounts of water, which they contaminate and drain out of the surrounding ecosystem...

Over thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have developed a close and unique connection with the lands and environments where they live and that form their territories...

TRIBUTE TO GOGO THANGO

Gogo Thango, a much-loved farmer from the community of Julius Mkhonto, Elukwatini, Mpumalanga, passed away on 12 August 2020. Richard Haigh, an agroecology (AE) trainer who owns Enaleni Farm, near Richmond in KwaZulu Natal, paid tribute to Gogo Thango who had attended his 5-day AE training workshop in November…

Frontline Food Podcast- Method Gundidza on Interconnectivity in Zimbabwe

Frontline Food is a new podcast in which host Georgie Styles interviews activists and thought leaders, in search of the radical grass roots stories of our food systems. In this episode Georgie speaks to Method Gundidza, Earthlore’s director, on how the communities of Bikita, Zimbabwe, have revived traditional varieties of…

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

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TRIBUTE TO GOGO THANGO

Frontline Food Podcast- Method Gundidza on Interconnectivity in Zimbabwe

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

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