Partnerships for learning
When talking about small-scale family farming, many different people and organisations can be labeled as “stakeholders”. But what do they learn from each other? And how do they learn to work together to make agriculture more sustainable? These are some of the questions that we addressed in this issue – Partnerships for learning.
The December issue of Farming Matters includes a theme overview by Steve Sherwood, where he discusses some interesting theoretical perspectives on learning, knowledge and social change.
In addition, we include the opinions of Francisco Caporal, General Training Coordinator at the Ministry of Agrarian Development in Brazil, and of Arjen Wals, Professor of Social Learning and Sustainable Development at Wageningen University. And we interviewed Percy Schmeiser: you can read about his lawsuit against Monsanto, the legal difficulties that he and his wife got into, and the reasons why they decided to continue fighting.
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