Cultures of Resistance

Slow Food Revolution: Burkina Faso

There's a quiet revolution taking place in farms and kitchens across the small West African country of Burkina Faso.

Saving Our Trees: Reforestation and Preservation

At the Cultures of Resistance Network, one of the most basic things we do to promote sustainability is support tree-planting and reforestation initiatives.

Food Issues: Fair Trade

The Cultures of Resistance Network supports efforts to make trade fair and to ensure that farmers and other producers in the global South receive just wages for their work.

These women are becoming solar engineers!

Our ally Barefoot College trains women in solar engineering so that they can return to their rural communities with the tools to make economic and environmental changes!

Kick Shell out of clean-up efforts in Ogoniland!

Two massive oil spills in 2008 and 2009 have led to severe damage to Nigeria's Ogoniland and the UN estimates that it could take up to thirty years for the region to recover.

Tree-planting as resistance in Western Sahara!

Our friends at Bambini nel Deserto are working on a project that combines reforestation with the Saharawi people's nonviolent fight for self-determination!

Help protect endangered trees in Brazil!

Our friends at The Global Trees Campaign are working to ensure that the region’s most threatened tree species are actively planted out across the region.

Start planning now so you don't miss Terra Madre!

Our ally Slow Food International will be hosting its annual Terra Madre festival in Turin, Italy from September 20-24, 2018.