Knowledge, Learning and Agroecology

‘Horizontal exchanges (peasant-to-peasant, fisher-to-fisher, pastoralist-to-pastoralist, consumer-and-producer, etc.) and intergenerational exchanges between generations and across different traditions, including new ideas’ (Nyeleni 2015)

Horizontal Learning

‘…some of these farmers have been meeting every month for 10 years, it’s

amazing’ (Jildou Friso - Demeter biodynamic participatory certification)

Dialogues of Knowledge

Place-Based

Combines practical and political

“So it’s not just the practice of forestry and agriculture it is also putting it into a social and political perspective…it has to be a question of organisation, regarding the market…[and] what political struggles and obstacles need to be tackled to implement agroecology on a broad scale.” -Joel Holmdahl, NOrdBruk, Sweden.

Builds Networks

‘…the problem with people who are really new entrants is they probably don’t know how to find out about stuff because they’re not moving in the right circles yet. So, that’s partly what LandBase is about…’ (Dan Powell)

Main Characteristics of Agroecology Learning

Horizontal learning

Dialogues of Knowledge

Political and Practical

Builds Networks

Place-based

Local culture, history,

environment

Democratic, flat relations between

co-learners

Farmer-eater-engineer-

researcher-etc.

Critical pedagogy

Local, territorial, national,

transnational

Initial Timeline of Network

Summer 2016 October (2016) November (2016) February (2017) July (2017)

Initial outreach and

research

Nyeleni Europe

Meeting (Cluj)

FAO European Meeting

(Budapest)

European network

meeting (U.K.)

La Via Campesina

Meeting in the Basque Country

Appropriate techs &

techniques

Community Supported

Agriculture & progressive

retail

Political training

Participatory Research

And other emergent

ones

Agroecology Schools

Pedagogies for learning

Linking to Global

networks

Working Areas

Next Steps, Get Involved

• Meeting in February

• Establish Governance structure

• Erasmus+ (March)

• Webspace

• Exchanges and building capacity among educators