EarthLore: Seed|Justice|Sacred Lands

EarthLore works with rural communities to accompany them on a journey to revive their traditional ecological knowledge and practices, seed diversity and farming and governance systems, essential for navigating climate change and defending their land against growing threats from mining and industrial exploitation. .

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Within a relatively few years, the dominant story of seeds has become one of loss, control, dependence, debt and death. It is the story...

As the industrial growth economy reaches further into rural areas, land grabbing has become a globally recognised challenge. Extractive industries such as coal mining, tourism, mono-crop industrial agriculture, timber plantations – are all after land and massive amounts of water, which they contaminate and drain out of the surrounding ecosystem...

Over thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have developed a close and unique connection with the lands and environments where they live and that form their territories...

Water Harvesting in Bikita

Mai Jange, one of the farmers that EarthLore is accompanying in Masasire, Bikita, could not wait to share with the EarthLore team how her water harvesting structures are performing. Masasire is an area that is very hot, water-parched and the soils are baked. These impressive photos give a sense of…

Business Wave Africa News: Bikita celebrates Eco Cultural Mapping

BY STEVE EPHRAEM A powerful tool is helping rural communities reclaim the narrative of their ancestral lands. Known as Eco Cultural Mapping, this participatory process allows communities to create detailed maps that chart not just physical landmarks, but weaving together local knowledge, cultural practices, spiritual values, and history….

Elukwatini Seed and Food Fairs

Enjoy this video of the vibrant Elukwatini Seed and Food Fairs, held respectively on 10 and 11 September 2025. It captures the essence of both events, showcasing the rich diversity of seeds displayed by participating farmers and the traditional foods prepared by farmers and communities. A true feast for the eyes. It also features partners, special guests and members of the EarthLore team.

A Fair to Popularise Healthy Traditional African Foods

The tentacles of American fast food chains that sell fried fatty food, sweet carbonated cold drinks and highly processed packaged snacks, have spread throughout Africa. They bring obesity, high blood pressure, heart attacks, sugar diabetes and other non-communicable diseases to communities who were once healthy. Even rural Africans, who not…

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Water Harvesting in Bikita

Business Wave Africa News: Bikita celebrates Eco Cultural Mapping

Elukwatini Seed and Food Fairs

A Fair to Popularise Healthy Traditional African Foods