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The course will explore the diverse dimensions of the agroecology - innovationnexus, seeking to understand the ‘innovation landscape’, and exploring “what isinnovation for agroecology?”. It will traverse plural grassroots learningprocesses, and the underlying knowledge systems needed for the developmentof innovations for agroecology. It reflects on diverse examples of organisedinnovation processes in the grassroots to better understand the enablingenvironment that makes innovation for agroecology possible and scalable. Thecourse will be the opportunity to discover actors and social processes enablinglocal innovations and technologies to emerge in support of farmingcommunities' technology autonomy. The course is taught by Scola Campesina Aps, in collaboration with theGrassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIA). It is offered by theUniversity of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology in partnership withStats4SD, with support from the McKnight Foundation
The course will explore the diverse dimensions of the agroecology - innovation nexus. It will traverse plural grassroots learning processes, and the underlying knowledge systems needed for the development of innovations for agroecology. It reflects on diverse examples of organised innovation processes in the grassroots to better understand the enabling conditions, or infrastructures, that makes innovation for agroecology possible, while also exploring power relationships and the political economy hidden behind the innovation narrative and the tech industry. The course is taught by Scola Campesina Aps and the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIA). It is offered by the University of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology in partnership with Stats4SD, with support from the McKnight Foundation