Schola Campesina is an international agroecology school, based in the Italian biodistrict Via Armerina e delle Fore.We facilitate processes of knowledge exchange in view of strenghtening food producers’ organizations worldwide in their struggle for Food sovereignty and agroecology, centering local and indigenous knowledge. Based on the Nyéléni International Forum for Agroecology (2015) and on the principles of ‘Dialogo de saberes’ and Popular Education, Schola Campesina creates the conditions for constructive knowledge exchange and facilitates horizontal learning processes amongst agroecology organisations, and also with academics and NGOs.
The Grassroots Innovation Assembly for Agroecology
The Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) values and promotes local knowledge and the daily inventiveness of food producers worldwide. It is an assembly of grassroots organizations and local networks that are rooted in agroecology and active in strengthening, defending and sharing food producers’ knowledge, tools, equipment, seeds and innovations in general (www.gia-agroecology.org). Schola Campesina holds the secretariat of GIAA. See the report of the first gathering (Italy 2023) and the report of the second gathering (India, 2025).
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Exchange Visit of STINA Women’s Association from Kosovo to Albania: exploring local seed bank,didactic field and educational laboratories.
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