Diplomatura Cultivating Sovereignty
A critical and transformative training on food sovereignty, agroecology, sustainable habitat and ecology of care. Designed to build autonomous communities that care for their environment.
Secretaría de Extensión
Sowing autonomy, harvesting community
Cultivando Soberanía continues the formative processes begun in 2025, deepening content linked to agroecology, healthy eating, conscious waste management and community organisation. This is its second cohort, now open to broader communities in Argentina and the region.
Cultivando Soberanía places particular emphasis on the agency of people and communities to make decisions and exercise direct control over their food and immediate environment. Food as a cultural, political and affective good; land as a bond, not a commodity.
This diploma draws on sustained territorial work inside the maximum-security prison of Batán, where for several years Cooperativa Liberté has been driving agroecological projects including vegetable gardens, artisanal food production and composting experiences. What was learned there becomes educational material for the whole community.
Throughout, the gender perspective and recognition of care work as a central political practice are addressed. Cultivating sovereignty is cultivating bonds.
General objectives
- Provide theoretical and practical tools to strengthen food sovereignty, care for the environment and the construction of dignified, sustainable and accessible habitats.
- Promote an ethics of care that integrates daily life, health, the bond with the land and community organisation as forms of resistance against exclusion.
- Drive self-managed practices that enable communities to recover knowledge, produce their own food, reuse resources and build alternatives in contexts of vulnerability.
👥 Who is it for?
People of all ages, backgrounds and territories. No prior studies required.
- People in prison and people who have been released
- Workers in the popular economy, gardeners, cooperative members
- Families, communities and grassroots organisations
- Professionals in health, social work, agronomy, education, habitat
- The general community interested in agroecology, food and care of the environment
🎓 Certification
University Extension Diploma issued by the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, through the Secretaría de Extensión of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y Trabajo Social. General coordination is carried out by Universidad Liberté.
Requirement: 70% attendance at the live meetings, or completing 70% of the classes and activities in the campus.
6 thematic pillars
The gender perspective and the ethics of care run cross-cuttingly through all pillars.
Food Sovereignty and Community AutonomyCross-cutting
The right to decide what, how and for whom food is produced. Food sovereignty, social justice, equitable access, autonomy against dependency models. Food as a cultural, political and affective good.
Popular Agroecology and Crops in Small Spaces
Agroecological gardens in patios, balconies and community spaces. Regenerative practices, bioinput production, soil and biodiversity care, seed propagation, growing in reused containers.
Composting, Recycling and Conscious Waste Management
Domestic and community composting, source separation, recycling, creative reuse, environmental awareness from daily life. Closing cycles, returning to the earth.
Artisanal Foods, PUPAAs and a Culture of Eating Well
Popular knowledge: ferments, bread, preserves, jams, natural drinks. PUPAAs (Small Artisanal Food Production Units), food safety, good practices, self-supply.
Sustainable Habitat and Construction with Recovered Materials
The right to inhabit dignified and healthy spaces. Bioconstruction, design with recycled materials, green roofs, natural insulation. Thinking of the home as an ecosystem, not a commodity.
Ecology of Care and Solidarity NetworksCross-cutting
Care for oneself, for others and for the environment. Mutual support networks, collective organisation, interdependence. Care as a political practice and as the fabric that sustains life.
This month's synchronous meetings
Once a month there is a live online class, also open to those who are not registered for the full diploma. Each class issues its own attendance certificate.
Presentación
Available 24 h after registering attendance.
Encuentro en vivo — agosto · La problemática ambiental
Available 24 h after registering attendance.
Encuentro en vivo — septiembre
Encuentro en vivo — octubre
Encuentro en vivo — noviembre
Encuentro en vivo — diciembre (cierre)
ℹ️ Open classes are 100% subsidized and free access: you don't need to be registered in the full diploma to attend and receive the certificate for each one.
6 months of study
One live meeting per month (one Friday a month, 6 to 9 PM Argentina time) and weekly classes and activities in the virtual classroom.
How it works
The one Friday each month, 6 to 9 PM (ARG) on Zoom. 6 live meetings in total. A space for debate, questions and collective work.
Each week, in the virtual classroom, you have a class with its material and an assignment to submit. Readings, recipes, techniques and practices to apply what you've worked on in your territory.
Zoom, Virtual Campus, Radio Liberté online and FM, YouTube channel. The training reaches wherever you are, also behind the walls.
Optional: apply what you've learned to a concrete issue in your community (vegetable garden, composter, PUPAA), with the support of the teaching team.
15 teachers
A community of knowledge committed to food sovereignty, agroecology and care of the territory.
Institutions that accompany us
Universities, research bodies, NGOs and networks with extensive academic and territorial experience.
Academic coordination: Ricardo Augman, Diana Márquez & Mauricio Navarro
Certified by: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata · Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y Trabajo Social (Secretaría de Extensión) · Coordinated by: Universidad Liberté
What you want to know before signing up
Is there any cost?
Do I need prior studies?
How exactly is the course structured?
- One live meeting per month — the one Friday each month, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Argentina time) on Zoom. There are 6 synchronous meetings in total, from 17 July to 4 December 2026.
- Weekly classes and activities in the virtual classroom — each week you have a class with its material and an assignment to submit in the virtual classroom, released on a set schedule.
I attended the 2025 edition. Can I join again?
What do I need to attend?
What's required to get certified?
Are spots limited?
Can I develop a project in my territory?
How will you contact me after I sign up?
Did you attend the 2025 edition?
We're waiting for you again. This 2nd edition deepens what was worked on in 2025 and opens the training to a wider community. Those who already went through the diploma come with different questions — and that enriches the whole cohort. Sign up with the same ID document and it goes in your Instituto history.
“Sowing autonomy is sowing freedom”
Every garden, every composter, every ferment is a political act. Cultivando Soberanía is community taking care of itself.
🌾 Sowing autonomy is sowing freedom
Every garden, every composter, every ferment is a political act. Cultivando Soberanía is community taking care of itself.