Schola Campesina is an international Agroecology school, based in the Italian biodistrict Via Armerina e delle Fore. Schola Campesina purpose is to strenghten food producers’ organizations worldwide in their struggle for Food sovereignty and Agroecology, centering local Knowledge. Based on Nyéléni International Forum for Agroecology (2015) and on the principles of ‘Dialogo de saberes’ and Popular Education, Schola Campesina aims to cultivate the dialogue among peasant, academical and activist knowledge, including on international advocacy work.
Recent publications
A Case Study of Bilim Community of Practice of Agroecology in Eastern Europe, Central and Western Asia.
Bilim is a community of organizations from Eastern Europe, Central and Western Asia region.
This brief developed by the UVM Institute for Agroecology in collaboration with Bilim organizations and Schola Campesina as the Community facilitator, examines the Bilim Community’s pivotal role in advancing agroecology across the region.
Rooted in the region’s diverse languages, cultures, and histories, Bilim fosters grassroots collaboration and knowledge-sharing to address critical challenges such as biodiversity loss, market inequities, and rural isolation. The brief highlights transformative initiatives illustrating how Bilim bridges informal and formal knowledge systems to promote sustainable, community-driven solutions, and underscores the importance of regional networks in creating resilient food systems and fostering solidarity.
Watch the video and read more on Bilim Community
The Grassroot Innovation Assembly for Agroecology
The Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) is valuing and promoting local knowledge and daily inventivness of food producers worldwide. It is an Assembly of grassroots organizations and local networks, rooted in agroecology (Nyéléni, 2015), active to strengthen, defend and share food producers’ knowledge, tools, equipment, machines and innovations in general. See www.gia-agroecology.org
Download the report of the first gathering (Italy 2023)
Latest News
CSIPM PRESS RELEASE – Food sovereignty is not possible without financial sovereignty
Following the CFS Dialogue on Financing for Food Security and Nutrition, the CSIPM has published a press release, and the zine Trade, debt and financialization: What
Join the Coalition ECI – Good food for all !
On March 30, 2025, the European Citizens’ Initiative on the Right to Food has been submitted to the European Commission. We are now awaiting confirmation,
Agroecology school Toolkit
The Agroecology Schools Toolkit has been designed to support agroecology schools facilitators and young organisations in starting their own agroecology schools. Through horizontal knowledge-sharing organisations
PEOPLES’ MANIFESTO ON THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD AND NUTRITION
Over 100 movements and organizations stand together through the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Food demanding political action towards agroecology and climate-resilient food systems,
BILIM - Agroecology alliance
in Europe and Central Asia region
Bilim forum 2025
The second forum of the Bilim alliance has been hosted by Gradina Moldovei and took place in Chisinau, Moldova, on May 20th-24th, 2025. Representatives from 15 countries
Polish School of Agroecology: Empowering Change in the Food System
We want to share with you a report from AgroPermaLab that collects our experiences, reflections, and methodologies gathered over two years during the Polish School
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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