End of May marked the start of the annual wool-shearing season across the flocks of the Atlas Mountains. To this day, the work is carried out the old traditional way: entirely by hand, using manual shears and no machinery.
The 2025 GDF seed grant-supported projects have been awarded to 5 GEN members and represent locally grounded responses to urgent conservation and cultural challenges across Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Samoa.
Specialty coffees, valued for their complex, rich aromas and flavours, require special geographic conditions and climates to be cultivated. The Field School aims to provide the necessary tools for producer families to continue to grow coffee without negatively impacting nature, but rather restoring it.
Energy sources such as electricity, natural gas, canned gas, oil or wood are not equally available for all of us. Our project aims to promote wellbeing and to empower family farmers and rural extensionists through participatory learning processes in the self-construction of Cook Rocket mass stoves.
The Sengwer people are an indigenous hunting and gathering community who primarily live in the Embobut forest in Kenya’s Rift Valley. They have been victims of unjust land management and conservation practices since the colonial period (early 1900s).
Local and important trees have been disappearing for years from the Savannah Region of Ghana due to external market pressures, such as charcoal trading capital demands, deforestation and the introduction of foreign seeds.
From encouraging biodiversity-friendly farming practices, roasting, blending, grinding, hulling, grading and garbling to packaging, we would break down these processes and look at it from a Circular Economy perspective.
Colonial trauma is silenced in East Afrika, yet ongoing. Decoloniality is still a nascent movement and commitment to the dominant global narrative that rewards capitalist growth is equally high.
Women leaders from urban agriculture organisations maintain food and seed farms using agroecological and traditional techniques, allowing varied production to feed families and their communities.
Developing a model of rewilding for central Chile that focuses on restoring lost functionality within socio-ecological systems.
