For decades, farmers had been attacking and destroying Guarani villages, installing huge cattle ranches and corn, sugarcane and soya plantations on stolen Indigenous land and gunning down Guarani people if they resisted and tried to re-occupy their ancestral home. And for decades, the gunmen did this in the shadows, largely unchecked by the authorities and ignored by the world’s media.
The African Segment of the Global Earth Repair Convergence, running 8–10 May 2026 online via Zoom, under the theme Repairing Landscapes, Agriculture, Livelihoods & Systems. It sits within the broader global event (7–11 May), which draws 500+ in-person participants in Washington State and thousands more online worldwide.
As Trilogue negotiations on the Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) Regulation intensify, the European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB), Biodynamic Federation Demeter International, and IFOAM Organics Europe have written to EU Ministers of Agriculture calling for a final text that does not place unnecessary restrictions on conservation and local varieties.
A study on the criminalization of farmers exercising their right to save, use, exchange and sell seeds under plant breeders’ rights laws.
Input companies, which are for the most part either mines or pharmaceutical giants; know they need to change their products and their role in the food and feed production chain because they are the same companies doing the research, advocating for and selling farmers a few of the depleted and in some cases totally absent soil organisms that their legacy products continue to kill.
In today’s blog post, I want to showcase the exact design process of creating a layout for a food forest with swales.