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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We are pleased to share IPES-Food’s latest report, “Food from Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets ” which highlights the importance of
ECVC launches new publication on how to implement UNDROP across Europe
Read ECVC’s new set of policy recommendations for international and regional organisations, European policy-makers, and national and local authorities, in order to push for the
INVITATION: Webinar “Black Box Biotech”- 12 September, 2024
Understanding the governance challenges created by ‘generative biology’ –integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with synthetic biology. Organized by ETC Group, African Center for Biodiversity, TWN
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
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The workshop “Acceleration of agro-ecological transition of agricultural systems” and visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, March 20, 2024
The visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, organized by Bilim Alliance members Alica Foundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Schola Campesina, was centered around the
Shortening the Supply chain in Kyrgyzstan
“This is our idea in practice – giving full information to urban consumers and at the same time supporting small-scale farmers” – says Madina Sadirdinova
