GEN SEED PROJECTS
Through our seed projects, we support GEN members to turn their dreams and ideas into reality. Each project package includes funding, mentoring and communications support from the GDF team and GEN resource people. Every year we open a competitive call for proposals, awarding several seed project packages annually.
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Application for GEN Seed Project funding 2023
We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications for our next round of GEN Seed Project Funding. Exclusively for GEN Members, this funding aims to support our alumni kick-start or build upon a new or existing endeavour. Apply here.
Specialty coffee agroforestry farmers Field School in the Pasco region, Peru
Specialty coffees, which have a higher value in the market for their complex, rich aromas and flavours, require special geographic conditions and climates to be cultivated. We hope the creation of this Field School provides the necessary tools for producer families to continue to grow coffee without negatively
Cook Rocket mass stove to help improve the use of wood by rural families from the North Patagonian Steppe (Argentina)
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.
Revitalizing Sengwer people-land relationships through indigenous knowledge in Kenya
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).
Nursing our ancient trees in Savannah Region for resilience
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.
The Rejea Retreat 2021 – Radical Reskilling for Regeneration
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.
The Coffee Miners Project: An interactive and immersive platform to understand the Coffee Value chain from a Circular Economy lens
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.
Community seed banks contributing to small-scale food production, agrobiodiversity and local seed exchange networks in Chile
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.
Engaging with local communities to envision rewilding project
Developing a model of rewilding for central Chile that focuses on restoring lost functionality within socio-ecological systems.
Community seed banks in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan
Among the world’s highest mountains, the Pamirs are deep in the heart of Central Asia, mostly in Tajikistan, with some of the ranges in Afghanistan, China and Kyrgyzstan. Through our initiative, we support communities to preserve their local seeds for future generations: an approach which also serves as a cop
People, parks, and prosperity: A story map project in China’s new National Park
This project looks at the “park vs. people” dilemma through the lens of China’s first and largest national park - the Sanjiangyuan National Park. Designated as a national park in 2015 and officially opened in 2020, Sanjiangyuan comprises an area equivalent to the size of 13 Yellowstone National Parks.
Indigenous wisdom and ecopsychology for empowering emerging Latin American change makers: moving from Covid disruption to better social and ecological wellbeing
The global COVID-19 pandemic makes visible the disconnection between humans. This new phenomenon also generates, first of all, health crises and later, in a more concealed and insidious way, economic, ecological and social crises.
The Poli: Responsible Consumption for a Sustainable Future
Bangladesh’s leather industry is worth a billion dollars a year, but that value comes at a significant environmental and human cost. The process of tanning leather hides in most cases is highly toxic.
Malaysian primates story and activity book
The advantage of having a storybook on primates is that children can take them anywhere as their learning companion, even without internet, and enjoy the book together with their parents or other family members. This can also reduce education gaps, especially in rural and urban-poor areas.
Re-weaving threads: Revitalization of the Mapuche traditional loom and forest natural dyes in southern Andes, Chile
Taller Witral has been a working and teaching space slowly built by Patricia Ayelef, a Mapuche woman, following her epew or dream: to revitalize the Mapuche textile culture in her territory of southern Chile.
