p2p Archives - Agricultural and Rural Convention

Coping with Covid19 – Commoning as a Pandemic Survival Strategy

March 29, 2020 ARC

The pandemic now sweeping the planet is one of those historic events that will change many basic premises of modern life. Let us act swiftly to deal with the emergencies, but let us also seize the opportunity to think about long-term system change. If there is one thing that the pandemic confirms (in tandem with climate change), it is that our modern economic and political systems must change in some profound ways. […]

AgTechTakeback | Neither neoLuddism nor Corporate Ag – Towards a Holistic Agroecology

September 23, 2018 ARC

Will hi-tech save agriculture from its otherwise intractable problems? Certainly technological stakeholders want it to appear so, as digitisation increases both in the fields and in the policy documents and future plans for the sector. So what is the peer to peer and agroecological response to this? […]

AgTechTakeback | L’Atelier Paysan on Self-Build Communities in Farming

September 20, 2018 ARC

This is #AgtechTakeback. L’Atelier Paysan is a French cooperative that works with farmers to design machines and buildings adapted to the specific practices of small farm agroecology. In addition to distributing free plans on its website, L’Atelier Paysan organizes winter self-help training sessions, during which farmers train in metalworking and build tools which they can then use on their own farms. […]