Open Source Agriculture Movement

Description

Vasilis Kostakis et al. :

"Small-scale farmers rarely find appropriate machinery to support their work. So, several individuals and communities of smallscale farmers from all around the world design and manufacture their agricultural tools (Giotitsas 2019). They share their designs as a digital commons. The open-source agricultural tools can be locally adapted and manufactured by the farmers in physical spaces (makerspaces). Cosmolocal initiatives, such as

1. L’Atelier Paysan from France,
2. Farm Hack from the US,
3. Tzoumakers from Greece and
4. Nyamdrel Zo’Sa from Bhutan,

have connected and created synergies by improving the same digital commons."

More information

• Source: Kostakis, V., Vragoteris, V., Lal Acharja, I. (2021). Can peer production

democratize technology and society? A critical review of the critiques. Futures, 131.

1. https://www.latelierpaysan.org/. Accessed 22 March 2021.
2. https://farmhack.org/tools. Accessed 22 March 2021.
3. https://www.tzoumakers.gr/english/. Accessed 22 March 20