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 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 alo with academics and NGO’s.
The Grassroot Innovation Assembly for Agroecology
The Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) is valuing and promoting local knowledge and daily inventivness of food producers worldwide. It is an Assembly of grassroots organizations and local networks, rooted in agroecology active to strengthen, defend and share food producers’ knowledge, tools, equipment, seeds and innovations in general. (www.gia-agroecology.org) See the report of the first gathering (Italy 2023) and the report of the second gathering (India, 2025).
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“Changing the Field,” a major farmers’ conference was held in Rome.
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