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6th Sept - 29th Nov – taught over 12 weeks 

(This course is taught in Spanish only - and is by invitation only)

La Escuela Continental de Agroecologías del Sur Global es un curso intensivo de certificación, creado recientemente para educadores de las escuelas autónomas de movimientos campesinos e indígenas agroecológicos en los corredores agroecológicos de América Latina y el Caribe. Esta escuela está coordinada por SOCLA Juventud, Alsakuy Agroecológica-Perú, IALA María Cano-Colombia, la Red Mesoamericana de Guardianes de Abejas Nativas y el Grupo VOCES (en el que participo). A lo largo de 12 semanas de duración, que abarcan septiembre, octubre y noviembre, esta escuela virtual creará una plataforma para la investigación-acción organizacional en decenas de núcleos territoriales, entre educadores y estudiantes, y dentro de las comunidades campesinas e indígenas, incluyendo la cartografía social y la acción político-pedagógica iterativa y transformadora. Este curso es solo por invitación.

The Continental School of Agroecologies of the Global South is an intensive certificate course newly created for educators in the autonomous schools of agroecological peasant and indigenous movements across the agroecological corridors of Latin America and the Caribbean. This school is being coordinated by SOCLA Youth, Alsakuy Agroecológica-Peru, IALA María Cano-Colombia, the Mesoamerican Network of Native Bee Guardians, and Grupo VOCES (within which I participate). Over a 12-week course spanning September, October and November, this virtual school will create a platform for organizational action research throughout dozens of territorial nuclei, amongst educators and learners, and within peasant and indigenous communities, including social cartography and iterative, transformative political-pedagogical action. This course is by invitation only.

September 9  â€“ October 14, 2025

Instructors: Josephina Kwando-Yaa (JK) Abuah & Tom Wakeford

(Taught in English, with Spanish interpretation - applications are now closed)

Seeding Reparations seeks to intervene in dominant narratives within food and farming in ways that connect contemporary exploitation of people and planet with historical harms. A reparations approach to fair and inclusive futures addresses these past wrongs as part of a critical reflection on how individuals and collectives can challenge the negative forces within our current food systems, in order to envision future actions that can lead to repair. Applying a transdisciplinary approach to learning, students are encouraged to share insights about reparative justice as co-conspirators and co-collaborators, and will be prompted to engage with a variety of interventions in our food system, be it through nurturing the land at local community gardening activities or organising reparative campaigns.

Sembrando Reparaciones busca intervenir en las narrativas dominantes en la alimentación y la agricultura, conectando la explotación contemporánea de las personas y el planeta con los daños históricos. Un enfoque de reparaciones para un futuro justo e inclusivo aborda estos agravios del pasado como parte de una reflexión crítica sobre cómo las personas y los colectivos pueden desafiar las fuerzas negativas de nuestros sistemas alimentarios actuales, con el fin de visualizar acciones futuras que conduzcan a la reparación. Aplicando un enfoque transdisciplinario al aprendizaje, se anima al alumnado a compartir sus perspectivas sobre la justicia reparadora como co-conspiradores y co-colaboradores, y se les anima a participar en diversas intervenciones en nuestro sistema alimentario, ya sea cultivando la tierra en actividades de huertos comunitarios locales o organizando campañas de reparación.

18 September – 30 October 2025

Instructors: Gabriela Bucini & Georges Félix

(Taught in French only)

Nos systems alimentaires sont complexes et les transformations que nous souhaitons demandent la capacité d’intégrer différentes expériences et disciplines. Nous allons créer des ponts de savoir entre la science, la pratique, l’art visuelle et le contexte social. Les thèmes de cette année seront : pratiques participatives et communication visuelle, dynamiques de pouvoir et solidarité, santé des sols et le rôle des arbres, innovations agroécologiques et, politiques agricoles et rurales. Les participant.e.s auront l’opportunité de dialoguer et collaborer en groupe pendant chaque séance. 

Our food systems are complex, and transformations require the ability to integrate different experiences and disciplines. We will build bridges of knowledge between science, practice, visual arts, and social context. This year’s themes will be: participatory practices and visual communication, power dynamics and solidarity, soil health and the role of trees, agroecological innovations, and agricultural and rural policies. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss and collaborate in groups during each of the 7 sessions.

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(4th November – 15th December - 6 sessions + introduction)

Instructors: Josh Brem-Wilson & Teresa Maisano

(taught in English only)

Facilitation of participation is a transformative practice developed to support the direct participation of smallscale food providers, and other non-elite social constituencies, in UN food governance processes. It is a political practice that aims to overcome the barriers that would otherwise prevent non-elites from attaining effective and authentic representation. It involves multiple complementary roles, undertaken in a spirit of solidarity and collective, reflexive self-awareness. Facilitation of participation is about naming, framing and overcoming asymmetric power relations, aimed also at internally strengthening social movements’ processes. This training introduces participants to this practice, including the context and key principles that have shaped it. It is delivered by Teresa Maisano (facilitator and former member of the Secretariat of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism for Relations with the UN Committee and World Food Security and currently co-coordinator of the Gender and Feminist Struggle at FIAN International) and Josh Brem-Wilson (independent researcher) who, as practitioner and researcher, have made important contributions to this practice’s development over the past 10 years, and beyond.

(mid January – end February 2026, exact dates to be confirmed)

Instructor: Leila Darwish

(taught in English only)

War leaves behind a toxic legacy of heavy metals, white phosphorus, explosives, and other chemicals that devastates agriculture and ecosystems, and can harm communities for generations. This course will provide an introduction to bioremediation — the accessible practice of working with plants, fungi, beneficial microorganisms, and other regenerative remedies to detoxify and heal contaminated soils and waters. With a focus on creative responses to war and ecocide, classes will highlight bioremediation tools and strategies for practical, place-based, and community-centred approaches to ecological healing and food sovereignty, and share inspiring community projects and practitioners who are working with regenerative remedies to heal toxic realities.

(2^nd Feb – 15^th March 2026)

Leads: Jessica Milgroom, Mamen Cuéllar-Padilla & Araceli Calderon.

(taught in Spanish only) 

En los contextos agroecológicos venimos planteando la necesidad y urgencia de incorporar los feminismos, pero esto, ¿cómo se hace? Este curso, impartido en español, tiene como objetivo compartir cómo las perspectivas feministas pueden ser aplicadas en la construcción de una agroecología transformadora. El curso se enfocará en el aprendizaje de las herramientas y experiencias de mujeres líderes en este campo y la creación de una comunidad de práctica para apoyarnos mutuamente en este proceso de aprendizaje. 

In agroecological contexts, movements have been expressing the urgent need to incorporate feminism, but how do we do this? What does this mean? This course, taught in Spanish, aims to be a space for sharing about how feminist perspectives can be applied in the construction of transformative agroecology. The course will focus on learning the tools and experiences from feminist leaders in this field and on creating a community of practice to support each other in this learning process.  

Disrupting Industrial Discourse by Organising Grassroots Innovation

March 11 - April 16

Extractive technology actors threaten to increase their control over food systems and further an antisocial narrative on innovation. This course seeks to raise awareness of these issues within civil society organizations and provide a space for sharing innovation experiences at the grassroots level. The course will explore the diverse dimensions of the agroecology-innovation nexus.

Course Description

Testimonials

What I appreciated most about the course: "Understanding more about the political drivers for adopting grassroots innovation gave me essential context to critically reflect on the systemic barriers and enablers of innovation at the community level, which I can now integrate into my own professional practice."

On course facilitation: "The sessions were well-structured, and the integration of expert insights helped bridge theory with practice. The facilitators created a supportive and interactive environment, which encouraged participation and peer learning.

An element that transformed my understanding: "My vision of innovation in agroecology has expanded significantly. The experiences in different countries have been particularly enlightening, as they show how, despite different contexts, we face similar challenges. This learning has enriched my perspective, providing tools to analyze and adapt innovative solutions to diverse realities."

Introduction to Agroecology for Professionals

27 Mayo - 1 Julio 2024

Este curso introductorio busca compartir sobre la historia de la agroecología como ciencia, práctica y movimiento, la agroecología en su amplitud (diversas formas de conocimiento) y sus dimensiones, particularmente la agroecología transformadora, sociocultural y las interacciones entre estas con lo biofísico.

This introductory course seeks to share about the history of agroecology as a science, practice and movement, agroecology in its breadth (diverse forms of knowledge) and its dimensions, particularly transformative, sociocultural agroecology and the interactions between these with the biophysical.

Se ha alcanzado el máximo de inscripciones de participantes. / Maximum registration of participants reached for Summer 2024. 

Participatory Action Research and Popular Knowledge

26 Agosto - 12 Septiembre 2024

En este curso, cada participante diseñará una propuesta de investigación con los valores, conceptos, fases, principios, métodos y técnicas que empoderan a las comunidades para enfrentar retos diversos en la transformación agroecológica, con las perspectivas de los movimientos de base, haciendo investigación creativa, popular, apropiada y transformadora.

In this course, each participant will design a research proposal with the values, concepts, phases, principles, methods and techniques that empower communities to face diverse challenges in agroecological transformation, with the perspectives of grassroots movements, doing creative, popular, appropriate and transformative research.

Transdisciplinary Agroecology

23 Mai - 13 Juin 2024

Ce cours s'appuie sur l'expérience antérieure des participants pour construire des itinéraires de réflexion et de travail collectif sur des thèmes contemporains comme le changement climatique et les pratiques agroécologiques. Pour comprendre les transitions agroécologiques au sens ample, et donc aussi une transition dans la manière de créer le savoir, nous adoptons dans le cours même une approche transdisciplinaire, ouvert à un dialogue entre différentes formes de savoir.

This course draws on the previous experience of participants to build itineraries of reflection and collective work on contemporary themes such as climate change and agroecological practices. To understand agroecological transitions in the broad sense, and therefore also a transition in the way of creating knowledge, we adopt in the course itself a transdisciplinary approach, open to a dialogue between different forms of knowledge.