Watch Custodians of Life. A film from indigenous people in Uganda.
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The Banyabutumbi Small Scale farmers improve their soils and natural environment through traditional farming systems in Kikarara, Rukungiri District – Uganda.
With the funding from the New Field Foundation (NFF) and the intervention of Africe, the Banyabutumbi Communities have gradually started to revive their traditional farming systems. They have retrieved the long-lost traditional seed varieties like, millet, cassava, sorghum, peas and beans. Each of these seeds have more than four species that are nutritive, resistant to pests and diseases and are […]
A Weber presentation to the GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE (GARN)
THEME: WATER IS LIFE; The sacredness of water as I have been learning from the Bagungu indigenous communities of Bullisa, Uganda. A Weber presentation to the GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS OF NATURE (GARN) By Tabaro Dennis of African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE); Earth Jurisprudence Graduate from Gaia Foundation training for EJ Practitioners.
Indigenous Conservation Knowledge systems among the Baganda.
Basing on the observation that traditional knowledge has widely been marginalised in environmental conservation approaches and practices today and that this partly because it is insufficiently documented and analysed, this study set out to establish the relevance of traditional Baganda approaches to sustainable environmental conservation today. The study specifically sought to answer the following questions: What are the traditional Baganda […]
Babies born in high-intensity oil and gas areas are 70% more likely to develop congenital heart defects
This study provides further evidence of a positive association between maternal proximity to oil and gas well site activities and several types of CHDs. As if we needed more evidence that oil and gas drilling is bad news: mothers living near intense oil and gas development are 40-70% more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects (CHDs). Published in […]
A New Story for the Earth
“The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.” – Thomas Berry We live in a time of multiple, interconnected crises- from climate change and ecological breakdown to the rise of the far right and gross global inequality. Thomas Berry, ‘geologian’, cultural […]
Rooting rebellion in nature
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death. I first met Thomas Berry at a talk in 1996 and immediately recognised him as an elder with a rare far-sightedness about our past, present and future. He pulled no punches during his talk: “The industrial process is now in its terminal phase. This is the […]
Arctic Warming Will Cost At Least $24 Trillion More Than We Thought, Study Finds
Arctic ice and permafrost melt will add at least $24 trillion to the long-term costs of climate change, even if the Paris Agreement’s goals are met, according to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday. If we take no further action to curb greenhouse gases, that extra cost will climb to $67 trillion by 2300, the authors said. Led by climate […]
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHERE THE AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND ECOLOGY [AFRICE] WORKS
The culture of the people who live in the areas where AFRICE works:The project area is located near L. Edward and Queen Elizabeth National Park, atRwenshama Fish Landing Site and Kikarara Village in the District of Rukungiri. This area is part of a bigger geographical area known as the Virunga Landscape, which is part of the Albertine Graben. The area […]
Indigenous communities in Uganda
Traditional Granary among some indigenous communities in Uganda