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...

Global voices in Quito, calling for the Rights of Nature

Within sight of the snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano, in Ecuador’s capital city of Quito, Gaia joined activists, academics, indigenous leaders and students, for an historic International Rights of Nature Symposium, 27th-28th September. We were joined by Method Gundidza, from our South African partner organisation, EarthLore The symposium, hosted by the Global…

iMfolozi: war against mine greed – The Sunday Tribune

By Liz Clarke Enough is enough. We will not move! This is the heartfelt cry from a rural community in KwaZulu-Natal, whose members believe that ongoing coal operations affecting a wilderness area, which is home to the Big Five, has to stop. The area under threat is the iMfolozi wilderness area, part of the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park, where coal…

Method in his Madness

“This well-known phrase – there is method in his madness – is a line in Shakespeare’s famous play “Hamlet”. It refers to the fact that if one takes time to look more deeply into a seemingly crazy decision or inexplicable actions, one often discovers there is good reason and a…

Reweaving the Basket of Life – African Perspectives of Earth Jurisprudence

In this recording, made on 23 April 2018, Method Gundidza, EarthLore’s programme director, finds himself in New York speaking to heads of state and to the world at the UN’s annual Harmony with Nature dialogue to celebrate Earth Day. What a significant achievement for someone born and raised in the small rural farming community of Bikita, Zimbabwe.

SEED

JUSTICE

SACRED LANDS

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Global voices in Quito, calling for the Rights of Nature

iMfolozi: war against mine greed – The Sunday Tribune

Method in his Madness

Reweaving the Basket of Life – African Perspectives of Earth Jurisprudence