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When Open source Meets Agricultural Tools

Are 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.
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Q. Chance, M. Meyer
2017
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Farmers’ Innovations Census Tours

L’Atelier Paysan réalise des Tournées de Recensement d’Innovations Paysannes. Partout en France, nous allons de fermes en fermes recueillir, documenter, chroniquer des adaptations, des astuces, des bonnes pratiques autour de l’outillage, du machinisme et des bâtiments qui constituent l’outil de travail de l’exploitation
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Atelier Paysan
2016
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“Black Box” Biotechnology

The 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.
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ETC group, African Centre for Biodiversity, Third World Network
2024
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