L’Atelier Paysan is a self-building cooperative in France that allows farmers to design and build the tools and equipment that will support their production system. Farmers are supported by engineers in the design; whilst they collectively decide on the characteristics of the tool they want to create. This initiative is of great inspiration for many other organisations across Europe, North America, and beyond.
This sheet has been developed in the frame of 8 online Encounters where peer organisations exchange structured knowledge and learn from each other; documenting valuable -and often invisible- practices to promote innovations co-creation at the grassroots’ level.
The next online Encounters will be dedicated to the pedagogies of grassroots innovations, how to make knowledge circulate amongst different expertise and knowledge hubs; and enhance farmers’ skills in view of gaining autonomy back on the technology they use.