EarthLore: Seed|Justice|Sacred Lands - Part 15

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...

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JUSTICE

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...

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SACRED LANDS

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...

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News

Rural activists get equipped with video documenting skills

28 November 2015, Participatory Video Community Training Course, Yellowwood Park, Durban See video here By Romeo Njabulo Ndlovu Billy Mnqondo from Fuleni in Empangeni along with groups from other parts of the country and Zimbabwe have taken the challenge of equipping their communities with video capturing and sharing skills after attending…

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