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🌱 The political role of agroecology.

🌱 The political role of agroecology.

AIDA - Italian Association of Agroecology invites to webinar: 🗓 Wednesday, February 4, 2025⏰ 18:00-19:15 A time to compare, exchange and pollinate ideas, resources and connections on the topics of gender, Intersectionality and social movements. 🗣 Speakers will...

Journal from Palestine: C.A.S.A. 10

Journal from Palestine: C.A.S.A. 10

Agro-ecology and international solidarity, direct action practices
Doing agro-ecological farming means above all activating a practice of resistance and struggle that results in constant political activism.

“Annoying Xylella:

“Annoying Xylella:

It is time to move away from the intensive agricultural production model, centered on maximizing short-term yields, degrading the land and its biodiversity, to accelerate the agroecological transition of our agri-food systems.

November 2025

November 2025

In this newsletter, which is in addition to “Legal Seeds” dedicated to seed legislation, you will find information about Rural Seeds Network and the activities and campaigns it carries out.

SOWING RAINBOWS

SOWING RAINBOWS

Through these stories, children can learn valuable values while developing a greater awareness of the world around them. Passing on fairy tales means promoting a culture of playful learning, which fosters young people’s emotional and intellectual growth by preparing them to face life’s challenges with wisdom and courage.

Regenerative Agroforestry

Regenerative Agroforestry

FREE MEETINGS – funded by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia as part of SISSAR 2025 programming.

Free online basic course for future biological counselors

Free online basic course for future biological counselors

OrganicAdviceNetwork, a project aimed at strengthening organic advisory capacity and networks across Europe, offers a free online basic course that introduces the basic principles and practices of organic farming and the services offered by organic advisors.

Local Food Policies.

Local Food Policies.

food policies take the form of the set of multi-sectoral and transdisciplinary legislative processes and initiatives aimed at regulating food systems at the local scale, with objectives of environmental sustainability and social equity.

13 Associations say no to further “simplification” of CAP

13 Associations say no to further “simplification” of CAP

a large proportion of farmers are aware of the need to maintain strict measures to protect the environment and nature in order to secure the ecosystem services that are essential to maintain agricultural production. But unfortunately, these interests of theirs are not represented today by the leaders of the major agricultural associations

Open letter regarding raw milk cheese production

Open letter regarding raw milk cheese production

The use of raw milk in Italy has deep historical roots and reasons, which cannot be traced to a fad or backwardness of producers. The presence of milk strains indigenous and specific to each area has made it possible to obtain products with distinctive aromatics. The microbial flora of milk also represents a real resource from the health point of view, due to competitive effects with the flora
environmental pathogenic

Cultivate Your Future

Cultivate Your Future

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL COURSES, DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO WISH TO DEEPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, THE ENHANCEMENT OF LOCAL VARIETIES, CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES, PRUNING AND RECOGNITION OF WILD HERBS

Generational change in agriculture

Generational change in agriculture

It is well known that generational turnover is a hot-button issue when it comes to agriculture.
From what emerges from the second biennial report “Youth and Agriculture 2024,” carried out as part of the activities of the National Rural Network, the number of young people in agriculture is in fact decreasing, in line with demographic trends and the general aging of the Italian population.

Isabella Dalla Ragione the plant archaeologist

Isabella Dalla Ragione the plant archaeologist

Interviewing farmers and analyzing artwork and historical archives, he has been recovering ancient fruit varieties for four decades. Today he has an orchard with more than six hundred specimens

France 2025, the account of the FoWO meeting.

France 2025, the account of the FoWO meeting.

Les Amanins, September 9-14, 2025 The late summer of 2025 saw the large WWOOF family come together again: it has been two years since the last international meeting in Canada and it was time to see each other again in person. Representatives of national organizations...

Cheese elective home of raw milk

Cheese elective home of raw milk

Around a raw milk cheese there is a world of pastures, meadows, woods, herbs, flowers and scents
There is ancient knowledge, there is care for the landscape and the land, there are local breeds
And honeys, and wools…
And the work of those who want a different future. More harmonious, more conscious, more true.

Open letter to the ministry from the Italian Agroecology Association

Open letter to the ministry from the Italian Agroecology Association

The use of raw milk in Italy has deep historical roots and reasons, which cannot be traced to a fad or backwardness of producers. The presence of milk strains indigenous and specific to each area has made it possible to obtain products with distinctive aromatics.

Guidelines for the control of STEC in unpasteurized milk and milk products

Guidelines for the control of STEC in unpasteurized milk and milk products

Newly published STEC regulations require daily inspections of all curds-a measure that, while motivated by food safety needs, results in unsustainable costs for small producers and an added burden of time and logistics that makes management difficult, especially for those working in mountainous or marginal areas.

Olive trees do not die in silence

Olive trees do not die in silence

Each family guards their trees as one would guard a story: with affection, with care, with respect. They tell of harvests, of hands weaving branches, of children learning about the earth by watching their grandparents stoop through the leaves.