Gaia Foundation

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The Gaia Foundation is a small, international organisation with 35 years’ experience accompanying partners, communities and movements around the world to revive and protect bio-cultural diversity. We take a holistic approach to regenerate healthy ecosystems and strengthen community self-governance. Both are critical as we face the grave reality of climate chaos, biodiversity collapse and social injustice.

Together with our partners from the Atlantic to the Arctic, Africa to the Amazon, we are reweaving the basket of life, revalorising the knowledge systems that enhance it, and restoring a respectful relationship with the Earth.

https://gaiafoundation.org/

We are committed to…

  • Reviving and protecting cultural and biological diversity in order to restore resilience for ecosystems and local communities, across connected landscapes.
  • Enhancing traditional knowledge and practices for land, seed, food and water sovereignty, thereby enabling communities to determine their own locally and culturally appropriate pathways rooted in regenerative principles and practices.
  • Linking with social movements who together can challenge the industrial growth economy and promote pathways for systemic transformation.
  • Speaking out for ‘Gaia’ – Mother Earth – and the rights of future generations of all species, yet to inhabit this planet.
  • Restoring a respectful relationship with, and a holistic understanding of, our one planet Earth.
  • Celebrating and re-weaving the web of Life, which sustains us all.

https://gaiafoundation.org/our-vision/

Their 4 current areas of work are:

  • Food and Seed Sovereignty
  • Earth Jurisprudence
  • Beyond Extractivism
  • Sacred Lands and Waters

Theory of Change

See https://gaiafoundation.org/our-vision/our-approach/

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