The Kamburu story: community-led response to Climate Change in Kenya

The story of how a local community in Kenya started to revive traditional seed and farming practices, becoming more food secure and adapting to climate change - with support from the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE), Kenya, and the African Biodiversity Network.
Read more | See the video

Advance Guard: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

Gaia has contributed to a compendium of more than 400 case studies which reveal how indigenous people are adapting to climate change. The report recommends that Western scientists draw on indigenous knowledge and experience when creating climate change policy.
Read review | Advance Guard -pdf

Latest news - from our CEG Global Alliance

The latest CEG newsletter is packed with updates from partners in Africa, South America, USA and the UK. Read about Community Ecological Mapping in Venda, Yaigojé Apaporis National Park in the Colombian Amazon, and lots more.
CEG_News11 - download

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

The African Biodiversity Network join other major networks representing small holder farmers, pastoralists and indigenous peoples, to establish an Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (ASFA). The Bole Declaration appeals to African leaders before the UNFCC Climate Negotiations.
Bole Declaration

Kenya has already had a Green Revolution

Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty. Mburu Gathuru, Gaia partner in Kenya, is interviewed by The Ecologist.

Read interview | ICE (Kenya)

Ethiopia doesn't need or want Bill Gates

Ecological campaigner and Gaia partner, Million Belay, talks to The Ecologist about why protecting Ethiopia's biological and cultural diversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gate.

Read interview | MELCA Mahiber

Biochar land-grabbing: the impacts on Africa

"Biochar" - the seductive solution for carbon sequestration, soil fertilisation and development. This report by ABN, Gaia and Biofuelwatch exposes the real situation in Africa, the risk of land-grabbing on a scale that dwarfs current land-grabs for agrofuels and agrcultural investment.
Download "Biochar" briefing

SACRED PLANET: in Resurgence magazine

A special Resurgence magazine feature on places of potency and our Sacred Planet, thanks to articles and interviews from Gaia partners in Brazil, USA, Africa, Colombia, Russia and Europe.

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2009 Highlights

With climate change firmly in the spotlight... a summary of news from 2009.
Highlights 2009

Gaia Learning Centre

Learning to live with ecological integrity.

2010 Programme of Gaia workshops and evening talks.

Earth Ethics - abstracts from Gaia Evenings. View all.

Podcasts - audio recordings from Gaia Events. View all.

Earth is Community - DVDs
A set of DVDs celebrating the vision and path of Thomas Berry.

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Be informed and inspired, with some of Gaia's international network

FreshtheMovie - award-winning film that celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who calling for local and fresh produce and reviving sustainable agriculture.

The Challenge for Africa and award-winning documentary Taking Root - about Gaia Associate and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai.

Social Edge - for blogs and moving stories from social entrepreneurs, and a recent interview with Martín von Hildebrand, director of Fundación Gaia Amazonas.

Sacred Land Film Project - dedicated to protecting the Earth's sacred places through education and advocacy.