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).
Latest News
Food is a Human Right for All! European Citizens’ Initiative
Schola Campesina joined the European Citizens’ Initiative on the Right to Food The access to adequate, safe, sustainable and nutritious food is a fundamental human right.
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
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
Workshop on smallholders, family farmers, and UNDROP implementation in Kazakhstan is successfully completed
The Workshop on Smallholders and Family Farmers and the Implementation of UNDROP was successfully conducted from July 18th to 20th, 2024, in Stepnogorsk, Akmolinsk region
Our publications:
§ 2026 Youth leading the way to data sovereignty in agroecology
§ 2025 Agroecology & Innovations (course syllabus)
§ 2024 Report of the first gathering of the Grassroots innovations assembly for agroecology
§ 2023 Agroecology School Toolkit
§ 2022 Agroecology Guidebook– Bridging generations through knowledge sharing (E+ BAG project)
§ 2021 Food systems and digitalization from a food sovereignty approach
