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)
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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
“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)