The International Short Course on Agroecology for 2007 will be held in Santa Cruz, California July 8-21, 2007. This year we continue to build strategic alliances to give the course a special focus on developing education and training programs where agroecology becomes the key to promoting action and change in the development of sustainable food systems. Besides Dr. Stephen R. Gliessman’s agroecology research group at the Department of Environmental Studies (UCSC), this course will be jointly organized by the Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA), the Community Agroecology Network (CAN), and the Agroecology Program of Heifer International. These partners will greatly enrich the content, perspectives, and special focus of this year’s course.

PICA is a living/learning program providing UCSC students opportunities to integrate cultural and ecological knowledge in our search for sustainability.

CAN is a non-governmental organization with the objective of supporting agroecological and social development in rural communities of Central America and Mexico.

Heifer International is a global NGO whose mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

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