Field study internships with the Community Agroecology Network (CAN)

Live and learn in a Mesoamerican farming community

The CAN field study internship program aims to build mutually beneficial relationships between field study interns and Mesoamerican farming communities.  Community members open their homes to interns, working collaboratively with them to exchange knowledge and share ways of living.  Farm families receive supplemental income and build friendships. Perspectives are challenged and shared, while respect is given to knowledge steeped in place and local experience.  Through hands-on activities and farmer accompaniment, interns apply diverse skills and learn more than they ever anticipated.  They participate in projects aimed at moving the communities toward economic and ecological sustainability, while going through a process of personal growth and exploration.  Interns and community members do not work in isolation but as interactive links in the CAN network of farm families, consumers, community organizations, researchers, students, and field study interns. The relationships that are formed build personal connections with the realities of global trade and rural subsistence agriculture.

• Earn up to 15 units of academic credit (internship, independent study, or senior research)
• 10 week internships available throughout the year
• Live and learn in a Mesoamerican farming community
• Get hands-on experience in agroecology and sustainable community development 
• Practice and refine Spanish language skills with your family homestay
• Inspire and inform your own work and activism at home
• Use the CAN Field Study Curriculum to give structure and context to your internship

Internships are currently available in Agua Buena, Costa Rica and Tacuba, El Salvador.

For more information and application materials please contact CAN at:

 interns@communityagroecology.net

(831) 459-3619

www.communityagroecology.net