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Amazon Research Internacional (ARI) is a Peru-based organisation founded in 2021 which unites traditional knowledge with modern science to regenerate the Amazon Rainforest sustainably, safeguarding biodiversity, culture, and communities.
ARI is focused on preserving biodiversity, ecosystems and indigenous knowledge through conservation, research, education and community empowerment. Its mission is to mitigate climate change, regenerate species and ecosystems, elevate traditional knowledge, and empower livelihoods that benefit both nature and culture.
Operating in four regions – Loreto, Junin, Madre de Dios, and Cuzco – ARI has also partnered with Ese Ejje women in the Bolivian Amazon as a fifth regional pilot. It collaborates with Kukama-Kukamiria, Ashaninka, and Harakbut communities, each with unique worldviews, yet united by the belief in the interconnectedness of nature and humanity.
The organisation has a particular focus on stingless bees, vital to Amazonian ecology and culture. The bees’ decline threatens soil health, food chains, traditional medicine, and centuries-old cultural knowledge. ARI documents traditional knowledge on stingless bees and complements this with groundbreaking scientific research.
It is also currently partnering with the Earth Law Centre to develop the first Rights of Nature declaration for stingless bees. This is led by Ashaninka communities and will be presented to local municipalities and eventually to Congress for legal protection.
The Anasi Farmers Association promotes regenerative techniques to restore damaged lands, increase biodiversity and foster economic resilience in rural communities of Uganda in the Kasese district, a disaster prone area.
It is a youth-led group of passionate farmers and environmentalists, started in 2019 after recognising the need to address land degradation, improve agricultural practices and support disaster affected communities. The inspiration came from witnessing first hand adverse effects of poor farming practices, deforestation increasing the frequency of natural disasters which leads to soil erosion, reduced crop yields, displacement, hunger and increased poverty.
Its six acre permaculture demonstration site has turned into a training centre for agroecology and restoration practices.
Anasi Farmers Association has:
Anasi Farmers Association wishes to continue to develop its agroecology programs and invest in building stronger community networks.
Battmung was founded to create a sustainable permaculture village in South Korea where young people can thrive and learn about permaculture design.
It seeks to ensure the survival of the village, which is at risk due to an ageing population. Through permaculture, Battmung aims to bring its village back to life. It offers a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course (PDC) to youth and those who go on to become active designers stay connected through the Battmung Friends group.
Since its founding in 2021, Battmung has:
Recognising the importance of connecting people, Battmung also contributed to the founding of the Korean Permaculture Association in 2023. Its goal is to organise its regional network and regenerate South Korea through permaculture, restoring soil, food chains, ecological awareness, and local economies.
Debt for Climate (D4C) is a global grassroots movement led by the Global South. Its primary demand is the cancellation of financial debt for Global South countries to address the Global North’s ecological and colonial debt and enable a just energy transition.
Debt for Climate has multiple regional chapters, including Debt for Climate Africa (D4C Africa), which sees debt cancellation as crucial to enabling regeneration across the continent.
The Debt for Climate movement is driven by a belief in climate justice, equity and economic sovereignty. The emphasis is on fairness, recognising that Global South nations, though contributing the least to climate change, suffer the most. D4C urges Global North countries to own their current and historical role in the crisis.
By combining diverse action tactics, it highlights debt, its connection to extractivist industries, and the role of institutions like the World Bank and IMF.
In 2022 and 2023 D4C Africa expanded its network across Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Zambia, particularly during the international climate summit, COP27.
Key milestones include:
D4C Africa aims to create materials for education and youth empowerment, facilitate the mobilisation of activists in Africa and foster connections between global participants of the wider movement.
FarmLab Ekopraxis Pilipinas is an emerging network of grassroots collectives led by frontline youth working in food justice, land rights, conservation, ecosystem restoration and climate justice.
Founded in 2021, it started as a small initiative co-creating local food systems with communities through food forests, communal farms and gardens. Today, it working to facilitate grassroots action and define the national policy agenda on food, land and climate in the Philippines. Its work is a direct response to the ongoing shift to authoritarian, corrupt, and neoliberal leadership in the Philippines as well as the constant erosion of cultural and environmental knowledge in rural areas due to globalisation and the corporate capture of food systems.
FarmLab Ekopraxis currently works with twelve model sites, including farms and community gardens, across twelve communities and a range of contexts both urban and rural. These are being utilized by communities, NGOs, local government units and private organisations that have flourished as autonomous sites. It is also working on a community of practice of natural farms, community organisations, advocates and farmer-scientists that has over 250 collaborators that span across the Philippine archipelago.
The organisation aims to create a regenerative farming and agroecology toolkit, and facilitate the creation of regional assemblies, aimed at enhancing circular, just, and relocalized food systems through creative campaigns and field schools in the Philippines.
Forest4Life is a transformative initiative focused on restoring the natural environment of Kayovu Village, a dryland region of Rwanda in urgent need of ecological rehabilitation.
It works in a community heavily impacted by the consequences of climate change and unsustainable land use, which have compromised biodiversity and local livelihoods. Through hands-on restoration efforts, the planting of indigenous trees and educational initiatives, Forest4Life is committed to re-establishing a harmonious balance between people and nature.
Established in 2023, Forest4Life has:
Based in Indonesia, Junglo helps people plant native forests in their homes, schools and offices, using the Miyawaki Method of afforestation.
It tries to understand the ecosystems that used to exist and aims to bring them back in small pockets, making climate action accessible to everyone. Junglo sees reviving connections between humans and forests as just as important as reviving the forests themselves.
So far they have:
Going forward Junglo wants to:
Land in Our Names (LION) is a collective of Black people and People Of Colour (BPOC) connecting its communities to the land as a means to achieve food, climate, land and racial justice.
LION believes that healing relationships with nature and land is also about healing the land and working in sustainable, reciprocal and caring ways. It strives towards collective land stewardship as a means to support its communities to access nutritious, delicious food grown using ancestral, sustainable and regenerative practices. It utilises different agroecological practices in its growing spaces and is passionate about learning African and indigenous farming practices which work in harmony with the land.
Since its founding in 2019 and an inspirational launch event in 2020, LION has continued to grow its collective and its reach:
Seeing that demand for LION events is always greater than capacity, LION wants to scale up its event programme and continue to expand its network.
Ñu’u Ndito is a collective of 25 small-scale farmers in Mexico practising the traditional milpa farming system, with a focus on the cultivation and conservation of native, coloured cotton.
Seeing the damage caused by reliance on agro-chemicals and burning fields, the founders of Ñu’u Ndito started searching for alternatives. Working together this
collective has:
The group seeks to diminish the occurrence of GMO contamination of cotton in Oaxaca. It passionately wants to conserve both the local wild populations and cultivated varieties because they provide valuable fibre and form an important part of the cultural identity in the area. It collaborates with Khadi Oaxaca, an artisan collective which buys the majority of the cotton for use in producing artisanal textiles.
Ñu’u Ndito has just harvested the first generation of GMO-free cotton seeds from its greenhouse, which is the result of a unique collaboration with the researchers and students at the Autonomous University of Mexico. Now, Ñu’u Ndito can start planning for the expansion of the conservation program via the installation of living seed banks in multiple communities.
Organización Ecológica Sol y Verde is a grassroots, regenerative and educational non-profit working in a rural and Indigenous context on the edge of the Maya Biosphere Reserve in northern Guatemala.
Sol y Verde’s mission is to protect and restore threatened ecosystems, by supporting climate justice, community resilience and the preservation and celebration of the Indigenous culture it is part of. Its work focuses on land-use solutions and stewardship to secure food sovereignty for vulnerable rural communities, particularly women, youth, and Indigenous groups impacted by displacement and climate change.
Its work has focused on the following areas:
Perfect Village Communities (PVC)’s mission is to empower rural communities in the East African country of Burundi against poverty and human and environmental health issues.
PVC was founded in 2020 by a nurse who noticed the malnutrition and ill-health suffered by his local community and understood that this was linked not only to the accessibility of healthcare but also to the environmental degradation of their land.
It has revived lost indigenous knowledge, such as traditional medicine and practices that promote soil regeneration using natural solutions produced from local plants. This has enabled the community to replace toxic products used in agriculture that pollute the environment, harm human health, and decrease subsistence farmer’s harvest quality and livelihood.
It prioritises empowering vulnerable populations to meet their own needs while respecting the environment. By introducing regenerative agriculture, communities have become able to develop their own food value chains, enabling them to feed their families.
So far it has:
PermaQueer is an Indigenous and queer-led platform focused on ecological advocacy and education, empowering First Nations, LGBTQIA+, and marginalised communities. It is based in a queer community in Githabul Country in Northern New South Wales, Australia.
Founded in 2019, it began with permaculture education to enhance ecological design and food literacy in local queer communities, then expanded its mission to develop resilient, sovereign local food systems globally.
PermaQueer’s approach integrates social and ecological systems, utilising systems design methodologies to build collaborative capacity and foster regenerative actions. This has allowed it to connect diverse communities and organisations, bridging gaps often seen as separate.
Since receiving the Intentional Spring Prize in 2021, it has launched several initiatives, including:
It has also presented at numerous events, including the World Community Development Conference and the Australasian Permaculture Convergence 2022. Through these efforts, Permaqueer continues to build resilience and engage communities in addressing ecological challenges.
The Ecosystem Carbon Conservation (TECC) is an innovative organisation dedicated to the restoration, conservation, and sustainable management of high-mountain peatlands and other strategic ecosystems in Colombia.
It works at the intersection of science, community engagement, and climate action to address pressing environmental challenges, such as climate change, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss.
Its mission is to create scalable, nature-based solutions to:
Since its inception, TECC has developed and implemented a range of projects, including Turberas para el Futuro (Peatlands for Future) a pioneering initiative for the restoration and conservation of peatlands located in the Páramo Almorzadero area of Colombia. These critical ecosystems and carbon sinks are threatened by agricultural expansion and land degradation in the area.
It works closely with local communities, such as the Cruz Rivera family, who have been long-time guardians of this region’s biodiversity, including species like the Andean condor and the Virginian owl. TECC views local communities as partners, not subjects, in research and conservation. This approach has helped decolonise science and promote equitable knowledge sharing. It aims to develop training programmes focused on sustainable land management practices, enabling community members to engage in restoration efforts actively.
The Northern Lights is a non-profit organisation dedicated to experimenting with, exchanging, and teaching regenerative practices while providing a welcoming space for social gatherings and creative inspiration in the Rhône-Alpes region of Eastern France.
Their mission is to cultivate minds, train hands, and connect hearts to nurture a vibrant world where all beings coexist harmoniously. The organisation hosts workshops, seminars, events, and volunteering programmes for both local and international communities, equipping participants with practical tools to develop their own socio-ecologically resilient initiatives.
Since their inception in 2020, The Northern Lights has:
By integrating ecological restoration, community revitalisation, and youth empowerment, The Northern Lights is building a vibrant, adaptable community that bridges generations and strengthens both ecological and social systems for a sustainable future.
The Returning Indigenous Corporation is an Indigenous women-led not-for-profit based in Bundjalung Country, Australia. Its mission is to bring all people back into right relationship with self, community and Country, creating healing for ourselves and for the planet.
The Returning Indigenous Corporation was established to deepen and expand on the decolonised cultural and wellbeing events already being run by its founder, creating opportunities for Indigenous cultural facilitators to lead the regeneration and social resilience movement on Bundjalung Country.
Its primary purpose is to provide opportunities and support for Indigenous women, Elders and their families to connect with Country, be recognised and remunerated for their cultural knowledge, and improve their health and wellbeing. Its secondary purpose is to build deep connections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, inviting all people to learn from their ancient wisdoms and cultures.
The Returning Indigenous Corporation offers seven programmes across the region focusing on nature therapy principals, health retreats and family support services. The Indigenous-only programmes offer safe spaces of healing and cultural connection, while the open programmes create deep learning, connection and healing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
The organisation recognises that climate change is already disproportionately affecting Indigenous people on Bundjalung Country and believes that through reconnecting all people with land, waters, health and wellbeing, everyone can thrive together as a resilient and regenerative community.