In France, L’Atelier Paysan has embodied this vision since 2009. Born from the initiative of a farmer and a local technician, it grew into a cooperative that helps farmers design and build their own tools and infrastructure for small-scale farms. Farmers co-design with engineers, learn to weld and repair, and all plans are shared under […]
Interview of Qomar Najmi, from Serikat Petani Indonesia, shooted by Maya Cohen in 2023, and retranscript by Katie Whiddon in 2025. Qomar introduces himself as a peasant farmer and national-level leader at Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), Indonesia’s peasant union. SPI is a mass organization present in 24 provinces and roughly 100 districts, with around two […]
Who is the Honey Bee Network? Welcome to our new monthly series highlighting GIAA members and their innovations. This primarily Indian network is made up of innovators, farmers, scholars, academicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and NGOs. They collect knowledge from the grassroots and ensure that all knowledge holders have given consent and are rightly acknowledged. Over […]
My Food is African is a campaign and a publication of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA). Reclaiming food is also about reclaiming traditional diets and grassroots innovations. See below page 24 and 25 of the campaign second publicartion.
On 18 November, GIAA held its fourth Encounter, focusing on how grassroots agroecological initiatives disseminate their work across rural territories. The exchange between L’Atelier Paysan in France and Tzoumakers in Greece began with a shared challenge: initiatives are often deeply rooted in one place, yet face significant barriers when trying to reach farmers elsewhere. Distance, […]
This is the publication that made the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology emerge.
On 24th of March, we discussed Technology assessment for agroecology, confronting diverse attempts to assess the positive and negative effective or possible impacts of a technology on our communities. Listen to the recording on EcoAgTube. (image credit: Jenni Ottilie Keppler) Peer-to-peer Encounter on technology assessment for agroecology (by Katie Whiddon) On 24 March, over 50 […]
IPES-Food has just launched a major new report on digital agriculture and innovation. It challenges the false promise of corporate-led “tech fixes” and calls for innovation from the ground up. IPES-Food releases HEAD IN THE CLOUD: Challenging the false promise of digital agriculture and cultivating innovation from the ground up. The report warns that a […]
L’Atelier Paysan (France) and Tzoumakers (Greece) are conducting similar actions in their respective contexts to decentralize agriculture innovations and technologies and exit this power from corporate actors to the hands of farmers and rural people. Recognizing that the exchange of innovations, methods and practices amongst peer organisations is of high importance to strengthen their activities; these organisations […]
Schola Campesina and the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology hosted an informal conversation entitled “Grassroots Innovations lead to Resilient Food Systems – The Agroecology approach” with key actors from FAO, academia and civil society organisations to critically explore and strategize on how to place grassroots innovations at the center of public policies, challenging dominant innovation […]
