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Mountain school in the Friulian Pre-Alps

Mountain school in the Friulian Pre-Alps

The University of Udine (UNIUD) launches the "Mountain School" project: the goal is to regenerate the Friulian Dolomites territory by boosting social and economic recovery and countering depopulation. Twelve residential courses open and free for all, including room...

Cambiare il Campo – Peasant Convergences.

Cambiare il Campo – Peasant Convergences.

A Great Peasant Conference in dialogue with social movements.
An opportunity to discuss advocacy, dissemination and strengthening of peasant and agroecological alternatives to the industrial food supply chain.
A dialogue between rural realities, associations, experiences of solidarity economy, environmental, social justice and health movements.

Week of mobilization against new GMOs.

Week of mobilization against new GMOs.

From April 20 to 28, participate in the week of mobilization!
Peasant agriculture is under attack.
The ongoing attempt by Italy and the European Union to deregulate new GMOs may soon result in a wave of genetically modified organisms in our fields and on our plates.

Restoration Law Appeal

Restoration Law Appeal

At stake is the resilience of Europe’s natural environments and the safety of people from now and into the future.
Read the appeal, find out the distinguished names of scientists and naturalists who have signed it.
PLEASE SIGN YOU TOO!

The Spring Sowing Campaign is Open.

The Spring Sowing Campaign is Open.

The Sowing Campaign is a collective and horizontal path of knowledge and skills growth, not secondary to the growth of seed availability on the ground. A division of labor and assumption of responsibility by farmers and enthusiasts willing to get involved is essential.

WWOOFCast – Episode 15

WWOOFCast – Episode 15

In this episode of WWOOF Cast, host Rodrigo chats with Basil, coordinator of the Federation of WWOOF Organizations, and Sarah, Executive Director of WWOOF USA. They discuss our goals of enhancing the WWOOF community, empowering hosts and WWOOFers with new...

Destination Shepherd: crowdfunding

Destination Shepherd: crowdfunding

Already in the past few weeks in this article we told you about Luca Pala and the initiative that the C.I.U.R.M.A. association is pursuing to save his company from expropriation followed by financial collapse. Luca was then with us at the assembly to tell us his...

International Mountain Cheese School

International Mountain Cheese School

To people who want to change their lives and develop a sustainable entrepreneurial activity. To those who run a farm and want to improve their business. To journalists, professionals and enthusiasts who want to learn more about the reality of shepherds and cheesemakers.

Poultry grazing and One health

Poultry grazing and One health

Sharing good practices is important to ensure that small-scale farming does not succumb to the coercion of rules abstracted from territorial contexts. A contribution from the working group coordinated by AIDA

Seminasiepi morning activity

Seminasiepi morning activity

In Buttigliera d'Asti on Saturday, March 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Seminasiepi's activities continue. At Federico Chiais's "i Soffioni" farm ( more information here ) and in collaboration with the association Ciò che vale, we will talk about agroforestry, and we...

WWOOF meeting in Parma and Seminasiepi second stage

WWOOF meeting in Parma and Seminasiepi second stage

WWOOF ITALIA LOCAL MEETING -with construction site SEMINASIEPI second stage- Thursday, March 14 at Az.Agr. by Enrico Bocchi , Boschi di Lupazzano, 53 Neviano degli Arduini (PR) A chance to meet again and get to know each other among members and those interested in...

semiLEGAL #006

semiLEGAL #006

During March, votes are scheduled to take place in the ENVI (March 11) and AGRI (March 19) parliamentary committees, i.e., those with jurisdiction over the issue of seed reform. Members of these committees will comment on the many amendments made by parliamentary groups to the legislative proposal published last July.

Terra Pagana seeks

Terra Pagana seeks

Terra Pagana seeks: - A family consisting of one or more living beings to complete the resident and operating community - To be a place that is deeply respectful of the global ecosystem - To disseminate and share small and large strategies to comply with the previous...

Ca’ Mariuccia seeks a vegetable grower

Ca’ Mariuccia seeks a vegetable grower

Ca' Mariuccia wants to restart its production. We are looking for professionals who possess certified skills in horticultural production management. We offer professional agricultural contract. Andrea Maria Pirollo View Host Tab

Symbiosis call for the protection of natural capital

Symbiosis call for the protection of natural capital

The call, aimed at the territories of Piedmont, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta, supports projects designed to promote active, conscious and concrete protection of natural capital and aimed at maintaining healthy, viable and resilient natural systems.

The real causes of farmers’ social and economic issues

The real causes of farmers’ social and economic issues

With the skillful instrumentalization of farmers’ protests, agricultural and agribusiness associations have in recent weeks given the latest shove to the European Green Deal, fingered as the main cause of the crisis in the primary sector.

The tractor is naked

The tractor is naked

All indications are that the current crisis of the system will give rise to a transition that will see digitization and genetic manipulation impose themselves as the solution to production and environmental problems, i.e., that agriculture 4.0 called “precision” and touted as “sustainable innovation,” endlessly repeating the deception of the green revolution first and the green-economy later.