The experience of the National Agroecology School: Blazing an agrarian trail for small farmers

The most outstanding results of the School, highlighted throughout this document, are to have created great capacity among learners to play leadership roles in a range of functions or modalities of rural life and actions. Learners also demonstrate powerful leadership because they understand their reality better; this understanding has been organized, systematically summarized and enhanced by their ENA studies and practices. From all these educational dynamics we have extracted a number of lessons that we deem fundamental, to portray the unique features that have made this School an outstanding experience for Ecuador and in fact regionally.

 

This document is an exercise in accountability for this experience, considering the setting in which the entire process unfolded, in addition to the conceptual definitions that were incorporated as useful tools to work with small farmers and their organizations.