Library material summaryDeclaration of participants of the First Pan-African Convening on the Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 2–4 October 2025, and co-organized by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and African Technology Assessment Platform (AfriTAP) and the ETC Group.
Library material summaryThere is much work to be done to build a decentralized web. We are committed to sharing knowledge and resources to enable anyone to jump in and get involved. Here is an ever-growing list of resources to help you along the way
Library material summaryThe second meeting of GIAA enabled the collective intelligence of grassroots organisation on the following aspects of Innovations and Agroecology: Grassroots Learning Experiences in grassroots learning, capacity-building, farmer-led experimentation, and Agroecology schools Innovation for whom? Risks and harms of Innovation, the Data industry, and the Need for technology assessment framework Fostering Innovation Processes of identification, documentation, and dissemination of grassroots innovations and local solutions. Enabling Infrastructure Exploring the Technical, Legal, Financial, Social structures and administrative backbone to support agricultural knowledge commons Connecting to Movements Nyéléni and the Agroecology / Food Sovereignty Movement
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.
