Gaia Foundation Seeks Regional Coordinators for UK Seed Sovereignty Network
Two new coordinators will work across southern and western England to strengthen grassroots seed networks — governance infrastructure for food systems that roots sovereignty in regional practice and Indigenous knowledge.
The Gaia Foundation is hiring two part-time Seed Sovereignty Coordinators to nurture emerging grassroots networks across southern and western England. The roles — 21 hours per week, home-based — are designed for growers who want to split their time between soil and systems work, accompanying local communities in what Gaia calls “cultivating a food revolution that starts with seed.”
The positions sit within a UK programme nearly a decade old, itself nested in Gaia’s four-decade practice of supporting Indigenous and local communities to restore confidence in traditional seed knowledge and governance systems. The coordinators will connect regional developments to a broader network spanning northern England, Wales, Scotland, and international partnerships across Africa.
This is infrastructure work for distributed sovereignty — training programmes, multi-stakeholder partnerships, events that weave agroecological practice into governance capacity. The roles require understanding of seed production, agroecology, and collaboration skills to strengthen networks that operate as alternatives to consolidated seed systems. It’s governance that must be felt and tested: hands in soil, eyes on the broader architecture of food resilience.