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🌿 For years, community in Farkha, Palestine, has been proving that caring for the land is one of the strongest forms of resilience. Despite land confiscation, settler violence, restrictions on farmers, and increasing pressure on their community, they continue to grow food, restore threatened farmland, revive traditional agriculture, and strengthen local food sovereignty through volunteerism and collective action. Together, they have: 🌱 Expanded home gardens from 90 to more than 230 families.🌾 Brought dozens of young farmers back to cultivating wheat, barley, and animal fodder.🌿 Protected agricultural land through collective volunteer work.💧 Restored and protected…

20 partners from eight countries unite behind a shared vision for demographically resilient, climate-ready rural communities across Europe From 23 to 25 June 2026, representatives of twenty organisations from eight European countries gathered in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria, to launch RUDI – Rural Innovation to Address Demographic and Climate Challenges. Funded under Horizon Europe, the four-year initiative brings together universities, research institutes, municipalities, cooperatives, and civil society organisations in a shared commitment: to help rural Europe not just withstand demographic and climate pressures, but to thrive because of the…

The Sustain-Ability Education Team gathered in Rome, Italy, from 29–31 May 2026, kindly hosted by REPLAY Network aps, for a productive and energising working meeting focused on co-developing the project’s sustainability competence curriculum. Over three days, Andreea, Anna, Dražen, Jan, Snežana, and Sabrina came together to move the work forward on WP3, diving into collaborative drafting, refining learning pathways, and aligning the structure and flow of the 12 competence areas. A strong focus was placed on harmonising approaches, improving consistency across activities, and making sure the learning experience feels coherent…

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A personal reflection about Busha Toloka by Maksym Zalevski , president of GEN Ukraine and the coordinator of Ukrainian Ecovillage Network.Read more about the Busha Toloka here, the community house project initiated as a response to the start of the war to serve as a refugee shelter in the short term and as an event space and community centre in the long term. Busha Toloka is currently going through a period of transformation in its coordination and community life. The community is increasingly coming together around tolokas — traditional Ukrainian…

We're delighted to share GEN Europe's 2025 Annual Report — a reflection on a year unlike any other in our network's history.