technical sovereignty Archives - Agricultural and Rural Convention

AgtechTakeback | Farm Technology Can Work For All

December 20, 2018 Oliver Moore

Our agtech series – agtechtakeback – saw a troubling story of corporate takeover and of disempowered, indebted farmers. But we also encountered empowering and inspiring examples of farmers embracing the best, most appropriate, of technologies to grow agroecologically. […]

AgtechTakeback – Technical Sovereignty and L’Atelier Paysan’s Tooled up French Farmers

October 18, 2018 ARC

A farm hack movement has emerged to really take the power back on the land in rural areas. In France this is especially developed, with L’Atelier Paysan empower farmers, using participatory methods, to devleop appropriate, affordable open sourced tools of the trade, machines and even buildings. Plus they throw great parties. Julien Reynier tells us more. […]