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Food systems and digitalization from a food sovereignty approach – new working paper !
23 July 2021 This working paper seeks to support food producers’ organizations and other grassroots-based organizations in the complex debate on digitalization. It highlights four
Technology Sovereignty 27 July 11.30-13.00 CEST
What kind of innovation and technology do small-scale food producers need and want?
Video UNFSS and Multistakeholderism
The video -from CAWR Coventry University- presents a critique of multistakeholderism and explains what’s wrong with the UN Food System Summit approach to people’s participation.
People’s movements to counter UN summit; call to reclaim food systems from corporate control
PRESS RELEASE | June 5, 2021 On the occasion of World Environment Day, June 5, people’s movements and civil society organizations around the globe today
Community of Practice on Agroecology
and TAPE in Europe and Central Asia region
TAPE in Moldova – Gradina Moldovai’s experience (audio from CoP meeting 21/5)
Mariana explains that the testing of TAPE in Moldova (EcoVillage) represented an opportunity to speak about agroecology which is an unknown concept in rural areas.
TAPE in Georgia – Elkana’s experience (audio from CoP meeting 21/5)
In this speech, Elene Shatberashvili (Elkana organization) explains the challenges when testing TAPE in Georgia in Autumn 2020: translation into local language / Covid pandemia
Agroecological transition in Poland: the experience with TAPE
by APLab Original Source: Agro Perma Lab See the video on Agro Perma Lab website The Jurajska Food Cooperative in cooperation with the international organization Schola Campesina and the Agro-Perma-Lab
Agroecology in Moldova: TAPE as a tool of self-improvement
An exclusive interview with DevelopmentAid, Mariana Seremet, the founder of Gradina Moldovei, shared her insights into the TAPE process and the implications of agroecology transition that the latter helps to reveal.
There are 1.5 billion peasant farmers and food producers in the world (the largest sector in the world) and they represent a pillar of economic democracy. Indeed, small-scale food producers make food and agriculture the unique sector of the economy which is not dominated by oligopolies (Internet is in the hands of 10 companies, the world energy market is possibly in the hands of 20, and most economic sectors are experiencing unprecedented concentration). Despite the large number of concentration processes currently ongoing, food and agriculture represents the only sector where there are still 1.5 billion food producers. Hence, a rights-based social and economic model built on a strong sector of food producers, peasant farmers, small-scale fishers and pastoralists, and not on the arrogant force of a few.
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Schola Campesina is an international Agroecology school, based in an italian biodistrict, seeking to strengthen food producers’ organizations worldwide in their struggle for Food sovereignty and Agroecology. Through knowledge sharing processes (trainings, videos, webinars, posts), we seek to facilitate the understanding of -and actions within- the global governance of food and agriculture (Rome process).
Based on Nyéléni International Forum for Agroecology (2015) and on the principles of Dialogo de saberes and Popular Education; Schola Campesina seeks to develop the dialogue among peasant, academical and activist knowledge.