In a momentous victory for grassroots groups and small farmers across India, the government has put an indefinite moratorium on commercial cultivation of the genetically-modified BT brinjal, or eggplant.
In our sixteenth year of supporting grassroots environmental groups around the world, Global Greengrants Fund is proud to look back on 2009 as a year of landmark victories and worldwide recognition for the work of our grantees.
Glenn Switkes, a longtime ally of Global Greengrants Fund and estimable activist, passed away last month. Glenn was passionately committed to defending the Amazon rainforest, rivers, and indigenous peoples, and is remembered fondly as “a river warrior with unbreakable passion.”
Our Alliance of Funds partner to the north, Small Change Fund, has recently launched a new website.
In a landmark victory for the Navajo and Hopi people of Black Mesa, Arizona, a coal mining permit for their lands was revoked this month.
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