by Georgia Beasley | Jun 15, 2018 | Native Seeds Project
The past year has been witness to a whole new program within our Native Seeds Project. As hundreds of thousands of families from South Sudan began pouring into Northern Uganda we began to ask ourselves: what can we do? It’s a humanitarian crisis so vast that sometimes... 
by Robin Van Loon | Sep 26, 2017 | Native Seeds Project
Opoka and his fellow farmers remember that the parish of Atiyaba in northern Uganda was once forested. This mosaic landscape of savannah-like grassland was punctuated by great swathes of tropical forest expanding out from river ways and swamps. Tree cover was the norm... 
by Joanna Trewern | Sep 17, 2017 | ARCAmazon, Native Seeds Project
We’re proud of the work that the Native Seeds project has done. To donate directly to Native Seeds, visit their Global Giving page. by Robin Van Loon | Jun 27, 2017 | Native Seeds Project
This is the story of our world: For the first time ever, more than half of all people live in cities. Cities are simply something that didn’t exist for most of the human era – indeed, what we now mean by city has scarcely existed for a hundred years. For the first... 
by Georgia Beasley | Apr 21, 2017 | Native Seeds Project
Hi all, I’d like to introduce you to someone. Her name is Oromo Jenet. She is a mother of seven, and she makes her modest living as a farmer and traditional healer, growing crops for subsistence and providing health care and healing to her community. She is at once... 
by Robin Van Loon | Mar 24, 2017 | Native Seeds Project
We often think of landscapes as stagnant and unchanging. Covering vast terrain and spanning many countries, the Sahara Desert seems immutable and eternal, yet its boundaries shift like extremely slow-moving tides. This process of fluctuation is natural but has been...