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Since agriculture is so important, why are we leaving its future up to a few powerful companies?
Opinion of Patti Naylor, a farmer and a member of the Civil Society and Indigenous People’s Mechanism at the United Nations Committee on World Food

Making invisible visible: gender-sensitive data to turn women’s knowledge into capital for better food and agriculture
Read the article of Ana Benoliel Coutinho. Find other resources related to Women and their knowledge, values, vision and leadership play a central role in

New podcast series
Podcasts serie, developed in the frame of the BAG Erasmus + project (2020-2023), with the important support of Lucas Sebastián Worsdell. These podcasts are valorizing

The I-TrACE principles for legitimate food systems science–policy–society interfaces
We’re happy to share this new paper written with several HLPE-FSN members in Nature Food that speaks to the need to adopt key principles to ensure
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.