Speakers
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Angelica MarchettiAgroecologist – Agroecology Europe Youth Network -
Ivana RadovićBalkan Seed NetworkPhD Ivana Radović is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade. She is also a founder of the community seed bank in Serbia, a community based seed saving initiative of traditional varieties of Serbia. The community seed bank in Serbia is developed within the NGO Ecological movement “Frame of life”
Ivana is the Board Member of the Balkan Seed Network. -
Lili BaloghPresident of Agroecology Europe & Hungarian Agroecology Network AssociationLili Balogh is a bioengineer and tropical agronomical engineer, involved in the international Food Sovereignty and Agroecology movement for the past decade. She has worked in several NGOs in order to promote agroecology and regenerative food systems in different parts of the world, and focused in the past 6 years on building the Hungarian Agroecology movement stronger. She became the president of Agroecology Europe Association and the Hungarian Agroecology Network Association in February 2022. She started her own farm in West Nógrád in 2018 where she started applying holistic management, regenerative agriculture, permacultural and agroecological principles.
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Robyn MinogueSouthwest England Coordinator for the Seed Sovereignty Programme, The Gaia FoundationSouthwest England Coordinator for the Seed Sovereignty Programme, The Gaia Foundation
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Sinéad FortuneManager, Seed Sovereignty Programme, The Gaia FoundationManager, Seed Sovereignty Programme, The Gaia Foundation
We support Small-scale Commercial Growers, Community Groups and Home Gardeners & Allotmenteers with useful networks, resources and information to help protect and restore seed diversity across the UK & Ireland.
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A place that provides space for programmes, lectures and discussions, focusing on community and social initiatives, sustainability, self-awareness and culture.
Building Self-Reliance into Network Structures
This workshop is part of of the 11th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum!
Join us for an open discussion about the various approaches organisations in our networks take to support and develop their networks.
Led by the Agroecology Europe Youth Network, The Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme UK & Ireland, and the Balkan Seed Network, this session is an opportunity for organisations that support networks of smaller groups to discuss structures that have worked – and possibly some that haven’t – in the aim to develop self-reliant, independent networks in the future.
We hope this will be a great opportunity for organisations across Europe that fulfil this role to share, collaborate, and learn from each other.
This workshop is ideal for people involved in movement-building, network support, and grower group development roles. We are keen to hear from as many groups as possible, so please come ready to discuss your experiences with the rest of the group.
PROGRAMME:
1. INTRODUCTION PART
Introduction to the workshop and Ice Breaking session (Sinéad Fortune)
2. PRESENTATION OF NETWORKS
Presentation of The Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme UK & Ireland (Robyin Minogue)
>>Presentation of Agroecology Europe (Lili Balogh)
>>Presentation of Agroecology Europe Youth Network and outcomes from the Agroecology Europe Youth Forum in Paris (cooperation with Sillage mouvementand EURYFA) (Angelica Marchetti)
>>Presentation of the Balkan Seed Network (Ivana Radović)
3. OPEN DISCUSSION on key challenges and solutions for a successful and resilient network
4. CONCLUSION
Take home messages –> What are the key qualities of a successful network?
