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. .

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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...

Mazwimba Traditional Seed & Food Fair, 11th October 2023

For the first time, EarthLore Foundation’s annual South African Seed and Food Fair will be held in Venda. Limpopo, rather than in Mpumalanga province. The event will take place on Wednesday 11th October, from 9h00 to 16h30, in Mazwimba village, Vhembe district, in Venda. It is sure to be a…

EarthLore’s newly released Seed, Soil and Culture Video

Watch this inspiring visual journey showcasing EarthLore’s work since 2015 that focuses on seed, soil and culture – the very heart of EarthLore’s work.

Celebrating Millet at the Bikita Seed and Food Fair

A warm welcome to the 2023 Bikita Seed and Food Fair, which takes place today, 12 September, at Chamas Communal Garden, in Gangare Village, Bikita, Zimbabwe. This is the most important event on EarthLore’s calendar of celebrations of the Year of Millets. The theme of the Seed Fair is “Our…

Rhythm of Reconnection

Meet Mashudu, who is reconnecting knowledgeable elders with young people to enliven their ancestral knowledge, culture and confidence. A new story of decolonisation from the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective, told by Mashudu Takalani of EarthLore Foundation, supported by The Gaia Foundation READ MASHUDU’S STORY: https://express.adobe.com/page/U3ZnkMdFQHrt1/ Working for EarthLore Foundation,…

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Mazwimba Traditional Seed & Food Fair, 11th October 2023

EarthLore’s newly released Seed, Soil and Culture Video

Celebrating Millet at the Bikita Seed and Food Fair

Rhythm of Reconnection