Schola Campesina has created the e-learning training course “Introduction to the global governance of food and agriculture from a food sovereignty perspective”.

This e-learning training was made possible thanks to the commitment of all the speakers who shared their knowledge with our community. It is through the meaningful dialogue of their diverse kinds of knowledge that food producers, NGO/CSO members, academics and others have contributed to creating this training course.  Thank you to all of them.

Purpose of the training

This e-learning platform provides an overview of global spaces of food and agricultural governance. The course starts with a general introduction on how Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) gradually entered key spaces of global governance (Module II). Module III focuses on the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), where CSOs engage in advocacy through the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM). This course also covers other international and intergovernmental spaces – such as the FAO and the UN Human Rights Council – where the food sovereignty agenda is being advanced (Module IV), and highlights how specific constituencies use these global governance spaces (Module V).

Goal

With this online training, Schola Campesina wishes to empower members of food producers’ organizations, with a special focus on youth, and to strengthen their capacity to influence global spaces. Through their advocacy, they can bring the voice of the agroecology and food sovereignty movements onto the global agenda. We also aim at improving the use of global outputs (policy recommendations, guidelines, etc.) at national and local levels for the benefit of social movements.

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“The Agroecology Fund is thrilled to support the Schola Campesina to train effective grassroots advocates to move local and global food systems towards agroecology. With threats so prominent to farmers’ rights and livelihoods, consumers’ diets and climate-ravaged ecosystems, we need strong movements to work with policy makers to construct agroecological food systems. We are grateful for your important work.” 
 Daniel Moss, Executive Director, Agroecology Fund

This training course was made possible thanks to the kind support of Agroecology Fund