Trainer's Guide to Local and Solidarity-Based Partnerships for Agroecology Around the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean Participatory Training Program for Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology (PLSA) was designed to support and promote PLSA initiatives by providing knowledge and skills to local communities throughout the Mediterranean basin.

The project partners reviewed and enhanced the “Be Part of CSA!” project, a modular training program on CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), a widely recognized PLSA model promoted since 2011 by URGENCI programs. The training program—which includes an explanatory booklet and a trainer’s guide—was developed with the understanding that PLSA initiatives should be built on shared responsibility between farmers and communities: it offers solutions to the common challenges they face, together.

The four training modules, each of which focuses on a different aspect of what makes these PLSAs so unique, together form a comprehensive educational program that covers all (or nearly all!) issues related to Citizen-Supported Agriculture. We hope it will be useful for both members of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology and for farmers.

The booklet introduces readers to the fundamentals of PLSAs. The Trainer’s Guide is intended to supplement the materials for educators, “multipliers,” and facilitators to help them organize the agenda for each training session, providing them with educational materials and facilitation techniques.

In fact, while preparing this Trainer’s Guide, the project partners analyzed and synthesized best practices regarding PLSA to illustrate the learning outcomes of each module and sought an appropriate approach to make the development of learners’ capacities more effective.

This work consists primarily of an adaptation of a previous project, “Join a Introduction The Mediterranean Participatory Training Program for Local and Solidarity-Based Partnerships for Agroecology (PLSA) was designed to support and disseminate PLSA initiatives by providing knowledge and skills to local communities around the Mediterranean basin.

Contents of the Trainer’s Guide:

• Module 1: What is a Local Solidarity Partnership for Agroecology (PLSA)?
• Module 2: Starting a PLSA Session 1: Starting a PLSA Session 2: Strengthening Group Cohesion Session 3: PLSAs in the Field!
• Module 3: The Fundamentals of Agroecology
• Module 4: Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) 8 local solidarity partnership! “Be part of CSA!” which was conducted in a European context.

CARI, an international solidarity association founded in 1998, works with rural communities in the Sahel region. Our mission is to support small-scale agriculture to address food crises and promote the development of local communities, as well as to combat desertification and land degradation in arid zones