2nd Call--The 7th International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism: La Via Campesina in Cuba, 17 to 23 November 2019, Havana, CUBA

[Maria WHittaker]

The 7th International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism: La Via Campesina in Cuba, 17 to 23 November 2019, Havana, CUBA

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The Christopher Reynolds Foundation may fund some trips to this event. https://www.creynolds.org/

The Vermont Caribbean Institute is handling registration of Americans for this event. See below.

The 7th International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism: 17 to 23 November 2019, Havana, CUBA

The 7th International Meeting of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism: 

17 to 23 November 2019, Havana, CUBA

(English/Spanish) 

The 7th International Meeting Of Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperativism, is set for 17 to 23 November 2019 in Havana with the participation of about 250 delegates says Radio Havana Cuba. The large majority will be 100 institutions of La Via Campesina, an international movement of small and medium farmers' organizations, rural women, indigenous communities, immigrant farm workers, young farmers and those farming without land are some of those topis which will be addressed and their role in the development of food sovereignty as well as the incorporation of young people, women and agroecology. ANAP in Cuba of La Via Campesina uses the methodologoy of farmer to farmer to pass on information and integrate farmers.

For further details and to register for this event, please contact:
Vermont Carribean Institute, home of the Cuban-US Agroecology Network, http://www.vtcarribean.org/collaborative-projects.
html; http://www.agroecologynetwork.org/ at this email: 
in...@vtcarribean.org

The Cuban-US Agroecology Network will for the 3rd time be volunteering  to help facilitate the registration of those US citizens who would like to attend this event as part of the Network's mission to help build bridges between the agroecology movements in both countries. This year (2019) it looks like all foreign (non Cuban) participants will need to apply for permission to attend EARLY, so contact us soon!

This conference used to be like this, says Dr. Fernandez,  and then for the past 2 events ANAP was able to have foreign participants participate on tourist visas. VCI has registered US citizens for this event  many times in the past, it is more cumbersome, and all participants will need to register much earlier than in other years. "But,' as the indomitable Dr. Margarita Fernandez, says," it is doable" 

Thanks to Otto Manuel Anderez of Inifat Inifatfor sharing this information!!!

Maria Whittaker

Program Director

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