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Event – Towards agroecological futures: Learnings from participatory action research processes in Spain
Join the event Co-Presented by the UVM Institute for Agroecology and the UVM Food Systems Graduate Program.Daniel López García from the Spanish National Research Council and Entretantos Foundation.
THE CALL OF PROPOSAL FOR THE AGROECOLOGY EUROPE FORUM 2023 IS OPEN UNTIL 21/03/2023
The Agroecology Europe Forum is a 3-day in-person event gathering people from all over Europe and beyond to meet in dialogue and discuss some of
March 15 and 20 – Online workshop: The impacts of digitalization on food systems and family farming.
On behalf of the Data Working Group, we invite you to the workshop on The impacts of digitalization on food systems and family farming. Elements for
The food price crisis is entering a dangerous new phase, plunging million more into hunger (read the IPES-Food report)
The food price crisis is entering a dangerous new phase – a debt crisis that is plunging millions more into hunger. Although food prices have receded
Community of Practice on Agroecology
in Europe and Central Asia region
Agroecology schools / Школы агроэкологии В чем их особенность?
What an Agroecology school is? Download PDF Agroecology schools are the place where knowledge is shared within communities led by grassroots organizations on a diversity
ТЭЙП в Кыргызстане – TAPE in Kyrgyzstan – Agency of Development Initiatives (ADI) (CoP 3d meeting – 4/10/2021)
Аудио на английском, а видео на русском The audio document is in English, while the video below is in Russian (of the same presentation). If
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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.