A collection of photos from our 2018 Summer Academy This summer, the Global Environments Network hosted its sixth Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA 2018) at the University of Oxford and beautiful locales in the surrounding countryside. Global Diversity Foundation delivered this year’s GESA in col
Back to school and garden trainings at Dar Taliba! After a long summer vacation from school and garden work at the Dar Taliba boarding house for girls, the students are finally back! We are thrilled to start the school year with an exciting programme of permaculture training in collaboration with our
Interactive learning about local plants with primary school students in the High Atlas By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, Global Diversity Foundation Right before summer vacation, I joined Field Researcher, Hajar, and Community Researcher, Fadma, for an exciting morning activity at a
How a plant nursery is born: the story of Aït M’hamed’s new community nursery By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, GDF Photos by Pommelien da Silva Cosme Less than a year ago, after a thorough search, our partner Moroccan Biodiversity and Livelihoods Association (MBLA) found a per
Annual Moussem festival in Ait M’hamed: a celebration of tradition…(part 2) By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, Global Diversity Foundation As highlighted in our previous blog post on the biocultural diversity fair organised during the annual Moussem festival in Aït M’ham
Annual Moussem festival in Ait M’hamed: a celebration of tradition and biocultural diversity By Pommelien da Silva Cosme, Communications and Field Officer, Global Diversity Foundation During the last week of April, we left our desks for a few days to participate in the annual Moussem festival in Ait M’hame
Seeds at the heart of first Community Exchange in Europe By Emily Caruso, Co-Director, Global Environments Network As we go by our daily lives, we might not always remember that seeds are at the very source of life on this planet, and essential for the survival of many beings who live on it. We also […]
Collaborating in the Face of Change: Strategies for Biocultural Protection and Defense By Angela Easby, GEN Coordinator and GESA 2015 alumna 60 participants and facilitators in the Comcaac community of Socaaix (Punta Chueca) and the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies came toget
Reflecting on the first Latin American Regional Socio-Environmental Leadership Academy Ana Elia Ramón Hidalgo, Spain (Global Environments Summer Academy 2014 participant) co-organised GEN’s first Regional Academy. The Spanish version is available here. Several months have passed since we convened the firs
