Agro-Perma-Labpolitical education and capacity building training in AGROECOLOGY

and global food and agriculture governance.

Nyeleni Polska: Movement for Food Sovereignty in Poland.

Key partners in Agro-Perma-Lab: Schola Campesina, Ecological Folk Highschool, Permakultura.Edu

Nyeleni Polska Coordinators Joanna Bojczewska (agroecology education & international patnerships); Wojtek Mejor (collaboration with academia and capacity building, treasurer); Marta Łukowska (Forum organizing; communication); Łukasz Nowak (organization building & fundraising, political lobbying, film)

1st Polish Food Sovereignty Forum 2018 - over 120 people, 4 days, 50 organizations.

Intergenerational Farmers’ Gatherings for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty 2017-2018

Online training webinar series on Food Sovereignty and global farmers’ movements, with Institute of Global Responsibility.

Seed exchanges at Good Harvest Seminars for organic farmers organized by Nyeleni Polska.

Agro-Edu-Lab: piloting Agroecology in formal agricultural schools in Poland.

Presentations and lectures at events.

Protests and lobbying activities. We are part of the Climate Movement in Poland

Working collaboratively through consensus and capacity building for holacratic, self-organizing culture.

Our strategy meetings take place on farms. We empower women-leaders.

Developing resources: films, publications, translations, eg. Seed Saver’s manual.

Membership of Nyeleni Polska, Permakultura.Edu and allied organizations (maps)

Work with New Generation Farmers in alliance with formal institutions and NGOs.[Reto Ingold from Swiss Biodynamic School teaching Polish New Entrants to farming experiential soil science]

Connecting Polish farmers with La Via Campesina. [ECVC representative at EKOLAND AGM; EKOLAND delegate at VIIth LVC Conference in 2017.]

Our members are farmers, cooperatives, CSAs, foundations…

Schola Campesina: political and popular education for the empowerment of small-scale farmers.[In 2017, Joanna Bojczewska took part in the 1st international training in Agroecology and Global Governance of Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy]

Joanna Bojczewska - Project Coordinator. Training and being trained through farmer-to-farmer exchanges [Top: running Agreocology workshop at Cohabitat Foundation & learning horse-work with neighbours at my mountain farm]

Scope of topics we cover in our collaborative trainings: organic farming, seeds, farm-autonomy, permaculture, soil health, low-input preservation…

Demonstration Farm 1 & Key Partner: Ecological Folk Highschool, Central Poland. [The director, Ewa Smuk-Stratenwerth - main Polish collaborator in the project and creator of the 2-year organic farming training in popular education methodology. The farm has facilities for over 30 students]

Demonstration Farm 1 & Key Partner: Ecological Folk Highschool, Central Poland. [The director, Ewa Smuk-Stratenwerth - main Polish collaborator in the project and creator of the 2-year organic farming training in popular education methodology. The farm has facilities for over 30 students]

Key Partner 2: Permaculture Design education with Ben Lazar from Permakultura.edu[Permaculture teacher Ben Lazar has animated a network-community of several thousand permaculture enthusiasts - young farmers and urban food sovereignty allies. He has run over 30 on-farm ecosystem design workshops, reintroducing the art of scything and teaching practical skills in old varieties of orchards trees]

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