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Socio-Ecologist & Programmes Manager at SA Urban Food & Farming Trust Rirhandzu Marivate joined us for Be Hive Seasonal Talk III, alongside Rico Wessels — Nourish Programme Coordinator at the Sustainability Institute — to explore one of the Care Economy’s most fundamental questions: If food is care, what would it mean to build food systems that care for the people who feed us? This is Rirhandzu’s essay — an invitation to see food differently, and to see differently the people

Founded by DJ Bola (Marcelo Rocha) in 1999 in Jardim Ângela, one of São Paulo’s most marginalised neighbourhoods, A Banca began as a hip-hop collective and grew into one of Brazil’s most compelling social enterprises. Today it supports women-led businesses across food, fashion, culture, and self-care — driven by the conviction that the periphery doesn’t wait for solutions. It builds them. Be The Earth is proud to partner with A Banca via their pooled fund (Programa ANIP BNDES

Through Synchronicity Earth's pooled fund, Amazon Alliance, Be The Earth is proud to support Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa (CGY) - an Indigenous organisation that brings together Guarani collectives across the South and Southeast regions of Brazil. We sat down with Grace lara Souza, Latin America Partner Relations Manager at Synchronicity Earth, to listen to her deep experience of collaborating with the CGY indigenous community over the years. Grace Iara and the Guarani leader Ke

By Jennifer Astone and Renata Minerbo As featured in Alliance Magazine, 28 August 2026 The question of how capital is stewarded is increasingly central to philanthropy’s relevance and legitimacy. At a time of social-ecological collapse and declining trust in institutions, the sector can no longer afford to focus solely on how much it gives while remaining silent about how its endowment operates in the world. Preserving wealth through investments that contribute to the harms

Gathering is the oldest technology we have — and the one a fractured world has most forgotten. Last week, on the blessed land known as 42 Acres, we gathered 100 community members for our UK Festival. After five years, we’ve stopped treating it as an event: it is a rehearsal. For four days, the community lives as if the regenerative economy were already here. Sharing freely, relating and listening deeply, dreaming and unlearning, morally imagining, earth dancing, garden grazi

Dear friends, collaborators & co-creators of regenerative futures, Reflecting on 2025, we are filled with deep gratitude. Gratitude for the journey, for the communities that walk with us, and for the living Earth that continually teaches, challenges, and inspires us. Be The Earth is in her 6th cycle around the sun, and as a learning and experimental organisation has continued to deepen its regenerative practices towards a more eco-centric economy. While 2024 focused on govern

Pooven Moodley is a Be The Earth Fellow, international human rights lawyer and social justice activist from South Africa. When I was first connected with the Be The Earth Foundation, I pondered on the question ‘What is it like to Be The Earth?’ I share here a few reflections as my journey continues to unfold and my understanding about the connection of the elements. I will choose a point in time to start this reflection. Last Friday the Constitutional Court of South Africa

We are living through a crisis of disconnection - from nature, community, and the deeper meaning that makes life whole. By restoring local economies and cultures, we regenerate the Earth and ourselves. Be The Earth is proud to support Local Futures who offer a path home. Article written by Christian Stalberg, as published here. Who decides what happens to your community? Who decides whether farmland becomes subdivisions? Whether forests are logged or protected? Whether your d

Regenerative work requires regenerative people. In 2025, Be The Earth created a £50k Subsidy Pot and opened the land at 42 Acres to ten groups from our community — farmers, activists, healers, and organisers — not as a reward, but as replenishment. Here's one story from that year — of a community of changemakers who came together in ancient woodland to rest, dream, and remember what they were building toward. What happens when we collectively dream? By Benedicta Asamoah-Russe