Library material summaryThe course explores the meaning and potentialities of innovation from an agroecology approach; it interrogates by whom, for whom and under the control of whom are innovations developed.
Library material summaryIt seems like every day powerful actors design, develop, and pitch new tools, which they claim can fix the problems created by older tools. In our rapidly changing technological landscape, it’s vital that we develop our own frames and strategies for understanding the implications of technologies so that we can be better informed of how to engage — when to uplift, when to challenge and resist. This booklet is intended not to impose a framework, but to offer food for thought and to spark conversations within our movements.
Library material summaryHow does digitalisation affect a just food system? In this publication, ECVC makes 25 recommendations to ensure that digitalisation in agriculture does not reinforce corporate power or exacerbate existing inequalities.
Library material summaryIn this report, we examine the state of corporate concentration in six sectors critical to agriculture: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals and livestock genetics.
Library material summaryThis report emphasizes that to enable food sovereignty and agroecology, the impact of digital agricultural technologies must be evaluated based on the kinds of connections they foster, and their implications for farmer agency, ecological sustainability, and socio- economic equity.
Library material summaryThe United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has for 30 years governed new developments in biotechnology, in the frame of precaution and justice, and has also recently established a process of technology horizon scanning, assessment, and monitoring of new developments. Now, there is an industrial attempt to converge next-generation genetic engineering tools (synthetic biology) with generative AI (of the sort used by ChatGPT) in a new “generative biology” industry.
Library material summaryProlinnova has long experience in organising farmer innovation fairs, where farmer innovators come together to showcase their innovations and the process of participatory innovation development (PID) that has led to improved outcomes and products.
