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 summaryAre the founding principles of open source transferable to agriculture? (..) We look at two case studies: a management software for farmers developed by – and called – Ekylibre; and a cooperative that provides farmers with machines that can be self-constructed, l’Atelier Paysan. Both structures are studied by retracing their history and form of organization, studying how they enact the principles of open source, and by describing their tools within their economic and political context.
Library material summaryLVC member organizations have increasingly been engaged in a process of documentation, analysis, presentation and sharing of the experiences in each continent and the best practices for practicing agroecology as a broad, social process of learning, education and transformation.
