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3 keys to strengthening women’s leadership in Peru
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America El Grupo Género y Economía (Gender and Economy Group, or GGE) is a collective composed of women and social organizations that are...
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Want to prepare for the future? Ask the elders
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America “When we focus on youth entrepreneurship for indigenous youth, this cannot be unconnected to food production,” says Shelley Cabrera,...
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Rest in Power
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America “Quisieron enterrarnos pero no sabían que eramos semillas.” http://muroshablados.es/archives/10671 “They thought they would bury us, but...
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IDEX Statement of Solidarity with SDCEA
UPON THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF SOUTH DURBAN COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE (SDCEA) IDEX’s staff, grantees, board members, supporters, and allies are pleased to share our admiration and gratitude for...
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Peru’s indigenous women are marching into Congress (and asking ministers to...
“We want at least 10 indigenous women running for Congress for 2021. And those women should come from FENMUCARINAP.” This was one of the big goals that FENMUCARINAP, an IDEX catalyst grantee, gave...
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Peru’s Potato Park: “Buen vivir” in practice
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX’s Regional Director for Latin America The highest authority in the Andean communities overseeing the Potato Park near Cusco, Peru, is not the government, a local leader, or...
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IDEX South Africa partners make cases on international stages
Putting Monsanto on trial The Monsanto Tribunal and a People’s Assembly for the future of food will take place from October 14-16, 2016 at The Hague. The Monsanto Tribunal will hold Monsanto...
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Press Release: Learning exchanges among food activists speed up response to...
BERKELEY AND BOSTON – Small, locally led organizations are producing abundant, healthy and locally produced food, and learning exchanges between farmers can help spread innovative and sustainable...
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When defending the environment means risking your life
For grassroots environmental rights defenders across the Global South, the work of protecting ecosystems is becoming increasingly dangerous. Urgent Action Fund and numerous investigative reports like...
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Don’t let big ag mergers get you down
By Jennifer Lentfer, Director of Communications Chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer Corporation’s confirmed $66 billion takeover of Monsanto yesterday was staggering news. The new company will...
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Buen Vivir: An old, but fresh perspective on global development
A guest post by Savannah Hicks As I sat in my cap and gown, I reflected on the broad range of global development issues I had been exposed to my Masters in Development Practice from University of...
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Agroecología: Un camino para Defender la Madre Tierra
María Estela Barco Huerta, Coordinador General de DESMI en México, refleja sobre el intercambio de aprendizaje en agroecología que se realizó esta primavera en Uganda, organizado por el Fondo de...
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Durban Port Expansion Squashed, Victory for Communities and Environment
Triumph! When Desmond D’Sa won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) was fighting to stop the Durban Port and Petro-Chemical Expansion, now...
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3 years in, still fighting on
By Katherine Zavala, IDEX Regional Director, Latin America On July 5th, 2013 in Mexico City, researchers, peasant farmers, artists, representatives of civil organizations, beekeepers, human rights...
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CCDA Public Statement: Murder of indigenous community leader in Guatemala
Daniel Choc Pop, Q’eqchi community leader and CCDA organizer was murdered on Wednesday, June 8. Photo: http://bit.ly/28BLWzT We are sad to share that Daniel Choc, a community leader that worked with...
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Beyond climate change platitudes: Getting to grassroots solutions
In the Stanford Social Innovation Review today, IDEX’s Director of Special Funds, Joanna Levitt Cea, shared the article “Beyond climate change platitudes.” Joanna shares the reasoning behind the...
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Poetry Pause: Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty Now!
Elizabeth Mpofu. Photo courtesy of ZIMSOFF. A poem by Elizabeth Mpofu, Chairperson of Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF), one of IDEX’s newest grantees. She is also General...
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Philanthropy’s missed opportunity: Grassroots solutions to climate change
By Rajasvini Bhansali, IDEX Executive Director We were at a funders dinner the day after the People’s Climate March in New York City in 2014. Never before had the world seen a more unified global...
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IDEX partner GRAVIS featured on PBS NewsHour
Dr. Prakash Tyagi of GRAVIS visits a family affected by silicosis, a slow, irreversible loss of lung function that affects sandstone miners, but is preventable. Mining sandstone in India’s Rajasthan...
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What do cherry blossoms teach us about climate justice?
By Jennifer Lentfer, IDEX Director of Communications It was just after daybreak on Easter morning. The crossing guard was tired, even though the hoards of people had not yet descended on Washington,...
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