Program of the camp Reclaim The Fields 2009

Here is the provisionary final program . This is the basic framework that we organize and to which will be added other workshops that you will propose. There will be a big paper at the Info-Point to register activities. Interpreters will work mainly in the activities of this basic program, so you may think of organizing voluntary translation for other workshops.
 
A typical day at the camp
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Plenary for camp organization
10:00-12:00 Workshops (several workshops at the same time)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Cleaning-up of the camp
14:00-16:00h Workshops (several workshops at the same time)
17:00-19:00 Assembly (all together)
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Chatting/ Music/ or assembly
 
30 September : Arrival and assembly to present the camp
Arrival, setting up the camp
17:30 Assembly : where does this camp come from, logistical matters and how we organize for the 4 days
20:00-21:30 Exchanges on settlement experiences
 
1st October : Becoming peasant.
Morning
9:00-10:00 : Assembly : Program of the day and collective organization of the camp
10:00-12:00 Workshops :
- Settling as a peasant, One and a thousand ways to get there
- How to adapt agricultural education to the need of creating new generations of peasants ?
Afternoon
14:00-16:00 workshops :
- Building up a network of farms for peasant training
- Access to land and passing on farms. Presentation of « Terre de Liens » and of a successful example of farm handing over
- Funding alternatives for settlement, the example of a non-interest bank in Sweden
17:00-19:00 Assembly/Debate « Becoming peasant in Europe in the context of agricultural crisis » 
 
2nd October : Collective dynamics : cooperating and helping each other on our territories
Morning
9:00-10:00 : Assembly : Program of the day and collective organization of the camp
10:00-12:00 Workshops :
- Presentation of the self-managed farm of Cravirola and of Terres Communes
- Urban agriculture: an emerging peasantry in towns ? 
- Light housing and self-building : what is at stake for peasant settling ?
Afternoon
14:00-16:00 workshops :
- Peasant-consumers cooperatives all over Europe
- Let’s share our agricultural material ! Example of CUMA in France
17:00-18:00: Plenary to share on the results of workshops during the two first days.
20:00-22:00 : Assembly/Debate on access to land
 
3rd of October : Peasant agriculture andd agroecology, practices to get out of the industrial model
Morning
9:00-10:00 : Assembly : Program of the day and collective organization of the camp
10:00-12:00 Workshops :
- Struggles for peasants seeds
- Breeding animals away of factory farming (Animaal biodiversity, feeding stuff, vaccination, sanitary rules)
Afternoon
14:00-16:00 workshops :
- Make your own seeds !
- Permaculture, agroecology, organic and peasant agriculture : complementary paths ?
- Agriculture and climate change, what Kyoto 2 could mean for peasants and what we could do in Copenhagen.
17:00-19:00 Meeting by country : what to do in our country after the camp ?
Evening organized by Cravirola with concert (5 euros), music, fiesta and more

4th of October : Articulating our struggles to defend tomorrow’s peasantries
All in plenary
9:00-10:00 : Assembly : Program of the day and organization of the cleaning-up of the camp
10:00-12:30 Peasant struggles in Europe and in the world

  • Via Campesina movement in Europe and in the world
  • Should we aim to change or abolish agricultural policies ?
  • Young people and peasant organizations

14:30-17:00 Strategies: and now, what do we do ?
Late afternoon : cleaning up the camp
 
5th of October : Action !