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 of Kazakhstan. Organized by Zher-Ana Astana and supported by the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (FAO REU), with the participation of Schola Campesina, this event gathered local […]
🚀Pitching event! ✨ Innovation award on farmer field schools for sustainable agrifood systems. REGISTER AND JOIN THE EVENT Mark your calendars! The Global Farmer Field Schools Platform in FAO’s Office of Innovation is excited to invite you to the first virtual Pitching Event for the innovation award on farmer field schools, taking place on July 31st, 2024!
Join us and more than 200 CSOs and academics signing on the Civil Society Statement on Biodiversity Offsets & Credits! Biodiversity markets will only repeat the same mistakes of carbonmarkets and distract us from the real drivers of biodiversity loss. More on biodmarketwatch.info
SIGN statement! The Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits Read More »
In 2022 and 2023, BILIM Agroecology community members gathered in person for the BILIM Forum in Turkey, fostering a spirit of collaboration and sharing. These events were a platform for members to exchange experiences, strengthen their partnerships, and discuss various topics such as farmers’ seeds, biodiversity protection, policy work, and agroecology schools. We would like
Reflecting on the BILIM Forum: 2022 and 2023 Read More »
ECVC farmers and other small-scale producers have spent decades demanding fair income through market regulation, prices that cover production costs and a better sharing of public subsidies. At last, after months of mass mobilisations, this topic took centre stage in the recent European election campaign, with almost all political groups making promises to use European
EU farmers demands for the new legislative period. ECVC press release. Read More »
From May 22 to May 23, 2024, Schola Campesina, in collaboration with COSPE Association and the Professional School “Ndre Mjeda” in Bushat, Vau Dejes Municipality, organized a visit from the STINA Women’s Association from Kosovo. The delegation, accompanied by Tahir Halitaj from the Ministry of Agriculture in Pristina and Andrea Ferrante from Schola Campesina in
Eleven organizations representing civil society and Indigenous Peoples across the globe welcome the statement by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) that it has officially ended its Letter of Intent (LoI) with pesticide industry lobby group CropLife International. We believe that this is an important victory especially for farmers, farmworkers and rural communities who
We invite you to join the presentation and discussion of the report from the in-person Grassroot Innovation for Agroecology (GIA) convening held in Italy in October ’23. Grassroots Innovation Assembly for Agroecology (GIA) Presentation & Discussion of the report of the in-person GIA convening in Gallese (Italy, Oct ’23) with 11th Hour Project, OpenTeam, FarmHack, Schola Campesina, and Maya Cohen, author of
