Dear Friends
For the next two weeks we will be celebrating Seed and Food Fortnight, which culminates with World Food Day on the 16th October.
 
This is an exciting time for Gaia. It provides an opportunity for the food and seed sovereignty movement to come together and highlight the mounting challenges we now face in ensuring we are able to feed ourselves for generations to come, without destroying the planet.

Alongside climate change, securing a biodiverse and abundant food supply for all is one of the greatest challenges we now face.  And yet, the key to overcoming both these global issues lies with the same solution – reclaiming regenerative forms of agriculture. 

Gaia is part of a global movement that promotes agroecology, a nexus of farming practices that enable farmers to regenerate the ecosystems they depend on and to combat climate change.  Over half of all our greenhouse gas emissions are generated by the global industrial food system. Yet this industrial food system only feeds a fraction of the world’s population, whilst creating mountains of waste and stripping ecosystems and farming systems of their resilience.

In fact, in 2014 the UN estimated that 70 percent of the world’s population was fed by small farmers. This isn’t a fact that Monsanto, Bayer or any of the giant food and agro-chemical corporations want us to know. Their profits rely on us believing that monocultures and quick fix technologies like GM are the only answer to our future food security.