Documentos en espanol:
Gobernanza mundial:
- El dominio corporativo sobre la gobernanza mundial alimentaria: la trampa de las múltiples partes interesadas. ¿Cuáles son los riesgos en 2023?
- Informe de la Sociedad Civil acerca del uso y la implementación de las Directrices sobre el Derecho a la alimentación (MSC, 2018)
- Recomendaciones sobre políticas relativas a los enfoques agroecológicos y otros enfoques innovadores en favor de la sostenibilidad de la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios que mejoran la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición – Primer borrador (CSA, 2020)
- Paquete de Bienvenida del MSC: Consejos Útiles sobre el Mecanismo de la Sociedad Civil (MSC) para las relaciones con el Comité de la Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA)
- VINCULACIÓN DE LOS PRODUCTORES A PEQUEÑA ESCALA CON LOS MERCADOS(CSM, HOTL)
- Los 10 elementos de la agroecología (FAO, 2018)
- La digitalización en la agricultura desde la perspectiva de la soberanía alimentaria (Schola Campesina, 2021)
Poducción agroecologica
- Guía para el sondeo agroecológico de suelos y cultivos CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (2013). ES
- Manual di compostaje domestico (Benmagec). ES
- Manual de elaboración de productos naturales para la fertilidad y control de plagas y enfermedades (Agruco, 2010). ES
- Manual de agricultura urbana (ARVOL, 2012). ES
- Producción de Hortalizas Orgnánicas. Manual del Cultivo Biointensivo de Alimentos (Las Cañadas). ES
- Suelos saludables, plantas saludables: la evidencia agroecological (Clara I. Nicholls y Miguel A. Altieri, 2008).
Agroecologia y feminismo:
- Sin feminismo no hay agroecología (MSC, 2019)
- Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism” (La Via Campesina, 2017). EN Comprender el feminismo en la lucha campesina (LVC, 2017)
- Miradas del movimiento agroecológico y feminista. (M. Nobre, 2017). ES
- Sistematización Primera Escuela Nacional de Agroecología “Sembradoras de esperanzas (Anamuri, IALA CHILE 2016)
- La construcción de una agenda feminista en la agroecología in Las mujeres en la construcción de la economía solidaria y la agroecología (SOF, 2015).
Conocimiento campesino
- Control remoto e inteligencia campesina – Sobre la automatización de las decisiones, la supresión de los conocimientos y la transformación de las formas de saber.(FoEE, CAWR, FIAN 2023)
- Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology ( María Elena Martínez-Torres & Peter M. Rosset, 2014)
- Agroecological Formación in Rural Social Movements. Radical Teacher 98 (Nils McCune, Juan Reardon, and Peter Rosset, 2014).
- El Movimiento Sin Tierra y la educación popular: la formación humana en diálogo (Rubneuza Leandro de Souza, 2015).
- Developing a European Agroecology Learning and Training Network (ECVC, 2016).
- The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. Journal of Peasant Studies (Peter Rosset, Braulio Machín Sosa, Adilén María Roque Jaime and Dana Rocío Avila Lozano 2011).
- Escuela de Acción Campesina, Universidad rural Paulo Freire.
- Formación agroecológica IALA (Adriano Muñoz Pérez).
Mercato
- Políticas públicas y marcos institucionales para la agricultura familiar en América Latina (Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura IICA, 2017). ES
- Las compras públicas: ¿alternativa de mercado para la agricultura familiar campesina? (Agrónomos y Veterinarios Sin Fronteras, 2014).
Semillas
- Recuperar el ciclo de la sabiduría: Luces para realizar el derecho a las semillas. Guía para la implementación de los derechos del agricultor (IPC, Crocevia, FIAN International, 2021)
- Tratado internacional sobre los recursos fitogenéticos para la alimentación y la agricultura
- Las semillas en manos de los pueblos (2016)
- Haciendo Milpa. La protección de las semillas y la agricultura campesina. (Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces, Areli Carreón García, Adelita San Vicente Tello, 2011) pp. 104.
Otros documentos in inglès
Right to Food
Reference documents:
- The struggle for the right to food and nutrition (FIAN, 2017) – EN
- Informe de la Sociedad Civil acerca del uso y la implementación de las Directrices sobre el Derecho a la alimentación (MSC, 2018)
- Peoples’ Monitoring on the Right to Food and Nutrition – Political Manifesto (FIAN, 2017) – EN ES FR
- Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of the national food security (FAO, 2005) – EN ES FR
- The right to land and other natural resources (FIAN, 2015) – EN ES FR
- The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2017 “The World Food Crisis: The Way Out”. EN ES FR
links: http://www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/
Global Governance
Introduction to the work done by civil society organisations (IPC) on food and agriculture global governance within the global institutions: FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) and the human rights-based approach to food, agriculture and nutrition. Introduction to FAO’s overall strategies (Strategic Objectives, Sustainable Development Goals) and FAO’s partnership policy.
Reference documents:
- El dominio corporativo sobre la gobernanza mundial alimentaria: la trampa de las múltiples partes interesadas. ¿Cuáles son los riesgos en 2023?
- Global Food Governance (McKeon, 2021)
This article helps lay a basis for the kind of deep analysis of the stakes of global food governance that is required today, under the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and with the threat of corporate capture of decision-making spaces.
- Recomendaciones sobre políticas relativas a los enfoques agroecológicos y otros enfoques innovadores en favor de la sostenibilidad de la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios que mejoran la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición – Primer borrador (CSA, 2020)
- Bringing home the results from Rome. Strengthening the use and application of CFS Policy Outcomes (CSM, 2017). EN ES
- Paquete de Bienvenida del MSC: Consejos Útiles sobre el Mecanismo de la Sociedad Civil (MSC) para las relaciones con el Comité de la Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA)
- Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of the national food security (FAO, 2005). EN ES FR
- Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crisis (CFS, 2015). EN ES FR
- Water for Food Security and Nutrition (CFS 42, 2015). EN ES FR
- Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: what roles for livestock? (CFS 43, 2016). EN ES FR
- Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security – VGGT (FAO, 2012). EN ES FR
- People’s Manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests. A guide for promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. (International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty -IPC, 2016) http://foodsovereignty.org EN ES FR
- Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (FAO, 2016). EN ES FR
- “Using the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition to Promote and Defend the People’s Right to Adequate Food” A Manual for Social Movements and Civil Society Organisations (CIDSE, IUF, LVC, FIAN, 2013). EN
- Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security (CFS 40, 2013). EN ES FR
- Food Losses and Waste in the Context of Sustainable Food Systems (CFS 41, 2014). EN ES FR
- Social protection for food security (CFS 39, 2012). EN ES FR
- Connecting Smallholders to Markets (CFS 43, 2016). EN ES FR
- VINCULACIÓN DE LOS PRODUCTORES A PEQUEÑA ESCALA CON LOS MERCADOS(CSM, HOTL). EN ES FR
- Cooling the Planet: Frontline communities lead the struggle. Voices from the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles (CSO, 2016). EN ES FR
- FAO Strategy for Partnerships with Civil Society Organizations (FAO, 2013). EN ES FR
Schola Campesina desarrolló en 2019 un curso de capacitación online dedicado a la gobernanza global de la alimentación y la agricultura.
FAO and Agroecology.
Presentation of FAO works on Agroecology, its normative role, the global knowledge product, the Agroecology Symposiums and FAO Farmer Field School (FFS) initiatives and others experiences.
Reference documents:
- Los 10 elementos de la agroecología (FAO, 2018)
- Strengthening FAO’s Commitment to Agroecology (CAWR, 2019) EN
- The 10 Elements of Agroecology enabling transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food systems through visual narratives (2020)
- Scaling up Agroecology to achieve the SDG Proceedings of the 2nd FAO International Symposium (FAO, 2019)
- 2nd FAO International Symposium on Agroecology (2018): Chair’s summary
- Final report for the FAO International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition (2014) EN ES
- Final report for the Regional meeting on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean Brasilia – Brazil, 24-26 June 2015 EN ES
- Report on the Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on Agroecology in Asia and the Pacific FAO, Bangkok, 24-26 November 2015 EN
- Putting family farmers at the centre to achieve the SDGs (FAO IFAD, 2019)
Innovation / digitalization
- La digitalización en la agricultura desde la perspectiva de la soberanía alimentaria (Schola Campesina, 2021)
- Food sovereignty and Agroecology are the adequate framework to develop innovations for family farming. (Schola Campesina, 2018)
- What will digital farming mean for agriculture in Europe? (FoEE, 2020)
- Blocking the Chain Industrial food chain concentration, Big Data platforms and food sovereignty solutions (ETC group, 2018) EN
- Forcing the Farm How Gene Drive Organisms Could Entrench Industrial Agriculture and Threaten Food Sovereignty (ETC group, 2018) Disponible en español
- In Global Food Policy report, Chp6: Knowledge and Data: Achieving Food and Nutrition Security through Open Access Data (Indira Yerramareddy and Suresh Chandra Babu) (IFPRI, 2018)
Local knowledge for farm autonomy
Exploration of different ways of building farm autonomy: valuing local knowledge, farmers’ technologies for water and energy management, soil fertility and the multi-functionality of farming (for more information on technological sovereignty, please see: L’Atelier paysan http://www.latelierpaysan.org/, and Farm Hack http://farmhack.org/tools )
Reference documents:
- Plaidoyer InPACT : Pour une souveraineté technologique des paysans (2016). FR
- How to Conduct Research on Your Farm or Ranch. EN
- Participative organic certification, trust and local rural communities’ development: the Case of Rede Ecovida. Zanasi, C.; Venturi, P.; Setti, M.; Rota, C. (2009). EN
- A Matter of Scale. Report. (LWA, 2017) EN
Agroecological production
Reference documents:
- Agroécologie en pratiques. Guide (2010). Agrisud international. FR
- Guía para el sondeo agroecológico de suelos y cultivos CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (2013). ES
- Guide technique d’agronomie et d’agro-écologie dans le contexte de la rive-ouest du Lac Alaotra (Madagascar) (AVSF, 2010). FR
- Manual di compostaje domestico (Benmagec). ES
- Manual de elaboración de productos naturales para la fertilidad y control de plagas y enfermedades (Agruco, 2010). ES
- Manual de agricultura urbana (ARVOL, 2012). ES
- Producción de Hortalizas Orgnánicas. Manual del Cultivo Biointensivo de Alimentos (Las Cañadas). ES
- Suelos saludables, plantas saludables: la evidencia agroecological (Clara I. Nicholls y Miguel A. Altieri, 2008). ES
Food chain concentration
- The food crisis, industrialized farming and the imperial regime (Van der Ploeg, 2010). IT, ES, EN, FR
- The Monsanto–Bayer tie-up is just one of seven; Mega-Mergers and Big Data Domination Threaten Seeds, Food Security (ETC, 2016). ES, EN
- Blocking the chain. Industrial food chain concentration, Big Data platforms and food sovereignty solutions. (ETC Group, 2018). EN
Gender & Agroecology
Explore the link between women’s empowerment and food sovereignty, the role of women in transforming food systems.
Reference documents:
- Sin feminismo no hay agroecología (MSC, 2019)
- Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism” (La Via Campesina, 2017). EN ES FR
- Miradas del movimiento agroecológico y feminista. (M. Nobre, 2017). ES
- Sistematización Primera Escuela Nacional de Agroecología “Sembradoras de esperanzas (Anamuri, IALA CHILE 2016) ES
- La construcción de una agenda feminista en la agroecología in Las mujeres en la construcción de la economía solidaria y la agroecología (SOF, 2015). ES
- Gender Equality and Food Security – Women’s Empowerment as a Tool Against Hunger (De Schutter for ADB, FAO, 2013). EN
- Our secret weapon against hunger: gender equality and women’s empowerment (Olivier De Schutter, 2012). EN
- The Peasant Women and Men of La Via Campesina Say: Stop Violence Against Women! (La Via Campesina, 2012). EN
- ‘Gender and the Right to Food’, Report presented to the 22nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (De Schutter for UN, 2012). EN ES
- Women, Land struggles and the reconstruction of the commons (Federici S., 2011). EN
- You Are Mostly Promised You Will Not Be Alone Women Farm Leaders Speak Out About Resistance and Agrarian Activism (Desmarais Annette Aurelie, 2005). EN
- Cultivating Gender Justice (Ahna Kruzic, 2017). EN
- Without women there is no food sovereignty (Vivas Esther). EN
- CFS Forum on women’s empowerment in the context of food security and nutrition (CFS, 2017) EN ES
Rural extension
How to share knowledge amongst food producers? Tools for peasant knowledge recovery, development and dissemination. How to boost our capacity to innovate and to share innovations? The role of agroecology schools (IALA, MST, CAC, Eur. Network) and others initiatives and networks (Agroecologia espora,etc). Basic principles of popular education (horizontal dialogue of knowledge, diálogo de saberes).
Reference documents:
- Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology ( María Elena Martínez-Torres & Peter M. Rosset, 2014) EN
- Agroecological Formación in Rural Social Movements. Radical Teacher 98 (Nils McCune, Juan Reardon, and Peter Rosset, 2014). EN
- El Movimiento Sin Tierra y la educación popular: la formación humana en diálogo (Rubneuza Leandro de Souza, 2015). ES
- Developing a European Agroecology Learning and Training Network (ECVC, 2016). EN
- The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. Journal of Peasant Studies (Peter Rosset, Braulio Machín Sosa, Adilén María Roque Jaime and Dana Rocío Avila Lozano 2011). EN
- Fossé entre praticiens et militants. In « De la crise alimentaire à la souveraineté alimentaire, le défi des mouvements sociaux » (Eric Holt-Giménez, 2010). EN ES FR
- Escuela de Acción Campesina, Universidad rural Paulo Freire. ES
- Formación agroecológica IALA (Adriano Muñoz Pérez). ES
Criminalization of social movements
- Seed laws that criminalise farmers. Resistance and fightback. (GRAIN LVC, 2015) EN ES FR
- Land Conflicts and the Criminalization of Peasant Movements in Paraguay: The case of marina kue and the ‘curuguaty massacre’ Oakland: Food First & Transnational Institute. (La Vía Campesina and FIAN International, 2014) EN ES
- Backlash and Beyond: The Criminalization of Agrarian Reform and Peasant Response in the Philippines. (Franco, J., Carranza, D., 2014. EN
Local policies and local food system
Role of the territory and the local management of food systems for food sovereignty. Introduction to the Bio-district. Local policies and sustainable management of natural resources. Urban-rural linkages and farmers-consumers linkages.
Reference documents:
- Bio-distretti: istruzioni per l’uso. In AIAB Bio agricultura (Salvatore Basile, 2014). IT, EN, ES FR
- A People’s Food Policy. Transforming our food system (UK). (2017) EN
- Políticas públicas y marcos institucionales para la agricultura familiar en América Latina (Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura IICA, 2017). ES
- Las compras públicas: ¿alternativa de mercado para la agricultura familiar campesina? (Agrónomos y Veterinarios Sin Fronteras, 2014). ES
- Public policies for Food Sovereignty (FIAN, HOTL, Terra Nuova, tni 2018) EN
Position paper «Strengthening Agroecology» directed at the German Federal Government EN
History of food sovereignty movements and its relation with global governance
- Food Sovereignty Agenda of Transnational Rural Social Movements in the UN Global Governance (Mauro Conti, 2016) EN
- Towards food sovereignty: interrogating peasant voice in the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 42 (1): 73-95 (Brem-Wilson, J. 2015) EN
Farmer’s organisations
Farmer’s organisations as social actors for change. How to get stronger and influence local policies? How to build a social control on natural resources?
Reference documents:
- Organizing for Food Systems Change (Anderson, C.R., Silivay. J. and K. Lobe, 2017)
- Towards Food Sovereignty. Reclaiming autonomous food systems. (Pimbert, M., 2009)
- Particularly Chapter 4. Local Organisations at the Heart of Food Sovereignty.
- Particularly Chapter 5. Reclaiming Citizenship, Empowering Civil Society in Policy-making.
Environmental and social impacts of agro industrial model
- Food and Climate Change: the forgotten link (Grain, 2011). EN IT ES FR
- From Uniformity to diversity. SECTION 1 What are the outcomes of industrial agriculture and diversified agroecological systems? (IPES-Food, 2016) FR EN (ES Puntos clave)
- Migration and agricultural labour force in Italy and Europe. The agricultural migrant labourer caught between exploitation and irregularity: stories from Southern Europe (Stefano Mori for Centro Internazionale Crocevia, 2016) EN
- Chapter 1-2- 3. The making of multiple crises in food, agriculture and environment in Towards Food Sovereignty. Reclaiming autonomous food systems pp.21-38 (Pimbert M., 2009) EN
Democratising knowledge for agroecology and food sovereignty
Knowledge and power relations, people’s access to knowledge and know-how as a political issue.
Reference documents:
- Democratizing knowledge and ways of knowing for food sovereignty, agroecology, and biocultural diversity (Pimbert M., 2018)
- Transforming Knowledge and Ways of Knowing for Food Sovereignty. Chapter 7 in Towards Food Sovereignty. Reclaiming autonomous food systems (Pimbert M., 2006). EN
- The video film – Imagining Research for Food Sovereignty – of St. Ulrich Workshop on Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty and Peasant Agrarian Cultures. Available in EN at: http://www.excludedvoices.org/st-ulrich-workshop-democratising-agricultural-research-food-sovereignty-and-peasant-agrarian-culture EN
Biodiversity & Seeds
Intellectual property rights, criminalization of farmers’ seeds, international treaties and regulations, seeds, international actors and roles (CGIAR, FAO), institutional lock-ins, farmer’s seeds networks, seeds selection and conservation methods.
Reference documents:
- Recuperar el ciclo de la sabiduría: Luces para realizar el derecho a las semillas. Guía para la implementación de los derechos del agricultor (IPC, Crocevia, FIAN International, 2021)
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture(FAO, 2004). EN ES FR
- Semences et autonomie paysannes. (Guy Kastler, Antonio Onorati et Bob Brac. L’observatoire du droit à l’alimentation et à la nutrition, 2013). FR
- Keeping Seeds in People’s Hands. Right to Food and Nutrition Watch Issue 08 (FIAN, 2016). FR EN ES PO
- Seed policies and the right to food: enhancing agrobiodiversity and encouraging innovation (De Schutter for UN, 2009) EN ES
- Haciendo Milpa. La protección de las semillas y la agricultura campesina. (Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces, Areli Carreón García, Adelita San Vicente Tello, 2011) pp. 104. ES
- Seed laws by country – Excel sheet (GRAIN, 2015). EN
- Seed laws that criminalise farmers. Resistance and fightback (GRAIN LVC, 2015). EN FR ES
- Seeds and agricultural biodiversity: the neglected backbone of the right to food and nutrition. (Sofía Monsalve Suárez, Maryam Rahmanian, Antonio Onorati, 2016). EN
- New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmer’s seeds illegal (GRAIN, 2016) EN
Agroecology and markets
How to create, develop and strengthen peasant markets? Local policies to develop access to local markets.
Reference documents:
- Connecting smallholders to markets. An analytical guide (CSM, HOTL). EN ES FR
- Connecting Smallholders to Markets (CFS 43, 2016). EN ES FR
- Las compras públicas: ¿alternativa de mercado para la agricultura familiar campesina? (Agrónomos y Veterinarios Sin Fronteras, 2014). ES
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