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WE FEED THE WORLD
Ground-breaking stories of regenerative farming, told through radical collaboration, celebrating those nourishing people and planet.
Grown by The Gaia Foundation, We Feed The World is a storytelling project pairing photographers and poets with inspiring custodians of soil and sea.
Food forms us, and producing it with care for human and more-than-human communities can re-form our home for the better.
These are the stories of regenerative farmers, urban growers, sustainable fishers and grain rebels: the quiet revolutionaries with grassroots solutions to climate change, biodiversity collapse and social justice. The time is ripe to celebrate their efforts and inspire widespread support for sustainable farming.
Diz Undone speaking to the BBC Food Programme
powerful stories inspiring a grassroots revolution
cross-sector collaborators from growers to poets
events & exhibitions held to strengthen local networks
million farmers and food eaters reached
Fifty global stories, exhibited internationally and published as a book, are now on permanent display at the Royal Agricultural University, inspiring the next generation of food growers.
Building on their legacy, ten tales of food production in the UK were shown in their local regions before being unified in an award-winning book and nationwide touring exhibition.
We Feed The World and We Feed The UK are now reunited as a thematic exhibition, touching on each of the many facets of agroecological growing and its potential to rebuild a just, nourishing, and sustainable food system.
BBC FOOD & FARMING AWARDS WINNER
“The Gaia Foundation recognise the ancient art of storytelling as one of the most impactful yet underused methods of affecting cultural change.”
Leyla Kazim, Digital Creator Award judge 2025
The complete collection of photography and poetry from we feed the UK
Image courtesy of Papadakis Publisher
“This book treats us all to a glimpse through the lens of a movement for change that is gathering pace … there is hope here.” Dan Saladino
“We need more hope. And we need stories like this to know that things are possible.” Jasmine Gardosi
“Part photo book, part poetry anthology, part gentle, multi-vocal manifesto, We Feed The UK energetically sets about the task of reconnecting us with where our food comes from.” Hannibal Rhoades
71 PERCENT OF THE UK IS FARMLAND
The potential for this to become the place where we support biodiversity, sequester carbon and address so many of the other problems we are facing is enormous. The arts have the power to speak to the heart. Apathy is such a big barrier, and hope activates.
Co-Director of The Gaia Foundation, Rowan Phillimore
A FLAVOUR OF THE REGENERATIVE FARMING STORIES
APRIL 2025
FISHING: IN WATERS OFF CORNWALL AND THE SCILLY ISLES
Inspired by fishers along the southwest coast
Poetry by Chris Redmond | Photography by Jon Tonks | Exhibited at Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol
LAUNCHED APRIL 2024
CULTIVATING EQUALITY: WOMEN WORKING WITH LAND
Inspired by Grampian Graziers and Lauriston Farm in Scotland
Poetry by Iona Lee | Photography by Sophie Gerrard | Exhibited at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow
LAUNCHED JUNE 2024
CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND: INTERGENERATIONAL RESTORATION
Inspired by The Penpont Project in Wales
Poetry by Ifor Ap Glyn | Photography by Andy Pilsbury | Exhibited at Penpont Estate in Wales
ONGOING
POP-UP PORTRAITS: CHANGING THE FACE OF REGENERATIVE FARMING
Inspired by the deep-rooted, radical-minded folk behind the regenerative farming movement
Photography by Louis Little | A low-cost, high-joy environmental storytelling exhibition travelling festivals, fields and farms. Get in touch if you’re interested in stringing this up in your own space!
DR DEBAL DEB AND THE LAST HARVEST
A film by Jason Taylor and Dan Saladino for The Gaia Foundation, inspired by Basudha Farm in Odisha, India.
Without the diversity lost to corporate farming, rice is doomed to extinction. Journalist Dan Saladino meets We Feed The World protagonist Dr Debal Deb: the scientist saving thousands of endangered varieties, gifting future resilience to the food that half of humankind relies on.
In the emerald peaks of the Scottish highlands, in tranquil pockets of new life in North London, and in rich fields nestled between Cumbria’s ancient hedgerows, farmers tend their land, nurturing pastures of quiet rebellion and hope.
WE NEED TO CHALLENGE THE FOOD INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST MYTH:
that chemicals, engineered seeds, and animal factory farms are essential to feeding the world. This is the reason why the We Feed The World Campaign is so important.
Anna Lappe, Author
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
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Exhibition | We Feed The UK On Tour in Nottingham
7 Feb – 14 Mar 2026 @ Primary, Nottingham
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Exhibition Launch Party | Primary, Nottingham
PAST: 7 Feb 2026, 14:00 – 17:00 @ Primary, Nottingham
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Book Launch | London
PAST: 15 July 2025 @ Wolves Lane Centre, London
REGENERATIVE FARMING NEWS
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We Feed The World in the Press
We Feed The World, the biggest ever photography project to capture global food systems, showcased across 50 exhibitions, from London’s…
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Fostering Critical Connections: We Feed The UK on tour in Nottingham
As snowdrops, crocuses, and daffodils begin to surface, so too comes a new phase of We Feed The UK. Four…
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The Gaia Foundation Wins at the BBC Food & Farming Awards
The Gaia Foundation (Gaia), creators of We Feed The UK, have won the Digital Creator Award at the BBC Food &…
Photographer, Sophie Gerrard, interviewed by Aesthetica Magazine
Featured on BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme
“It’s important to remember that we are making the culture and culture makes mindsets. We can inspire this change that needs to happen.” Hot Poet, Dizraeli, speaking to the BBC Food Programme
Jimi Famurewa, host of BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, visits three producers and poets taking part in We Feed The UK, to ask whether poetry can convince us to care about our food…
Agriculture is one of the most creative acts that human beings can be engaged in.
And the fact that the creativity of the photographers and the creativity of the small farmers has come together in this exhibition makes for a very powerful story.
Vandana Shiva, Activist and Academic
ARTS & ENVIRONMENT PARTNERS
Grown by The Gaia Foundation with over 40 close collaborators, We Feed The World presents a radical collaboration between the arts and agroecology.
Here are some of our partners from the past 24 months:
WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR HEADLINE SPONSORS, MPB
Find out more about how our partnership with MPB is reducing photography’s impact on Earth.