septiembre 2018

At the FAO Expert consultation on knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations applicable for smallholders and family farmers in Europe and Central Asia (10-13 Sept., Hungary). Schola Campesina will also actively participate in the upcoming Civil Society Mechanisms forum (13-14 Oct., FAO HQ, Italy), and in the Committee on World Food Security (15-19 Oct., FAO HQ, Italy).

On April 17, 2018, celebrating the International Day of peasant struggles, Schola Campesina facilitated an International conference on the hazelnut supply chain bringing together, in Nepi, (Italy) hazelnut producer family farmers and their organizations from Georgia, Italy and Turkey. Beforehand, the participants visited Italian farms, shared experiences on production, markets and contract farming and took

(solo en ingles) Food sovereignty and Agroecology are the adequate framework to develop innovations for family farming “The reflection on the term ‘innovation’ is useful in understanding how the term is passed off as good in itself, and how today, its meaning hides a large part of the capitalist system that seeks to transform food