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How can we create platforms for the production of agricultural knowledge? How can it be widely shared and mobilized? What may be the role of information and communications technologies in such process?
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A series of 3 excerpts on commonifying the fictitious commodities identified by Karl Polany, i.e. land, money and labor, from an essay by Gary Flomenhoft.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION FOOD AND AGRICULTURE P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS
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I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14.
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Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? I
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"Yardfarming: the process of turning unsustainable, resource-intensive lawns and otherwise underutilized green spaces into small food production sites"
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In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, and communities. The structure of local food supply chains, however, may not always be capable of generating these perceived benefits.
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Deccan Development Society (DDS) is transforming the lives of villagers of Zaheerhabad, Telangana. Ashish Kothari visited the place recently and writes about how DDS is successfully working with Dalit farmers towards ecologically sustainable farming, women empowerment and community-led communications.
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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In the first of an occasional series, Sophie Jerram considers the history and current practice of commoning in New Zealand.
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PODpioneers is a global community bringing fresh, affordable, organic food to backyards and local communities throughout the world.
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(Rome, Monday 15 February, 2016) Just when the biotech companies that make transgenic seeds are merging, the corporate vision of biotechnology is showing up at FAO. At today’s opening of the three-day International symposium on agricultural biotechnologies convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, more than 100 civil society and social movement and organizations (CSOs) from four continents have issued a statement denouncing both the substance and structure of the meeting, which appears to be another attempt by multinational agribusiness to redirect the policies of the UN agency toward support for Genetically-engineered crops and livestock.
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In September last year, I spent a month seeing if I could survive in the sharing economy in London. It was hard. However, one of the reasons it was so hard was I was traveling. I only had a backpack and laptop with me, so I could not leverage the two profitable areas of the sharing economy -- stuff and space.
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The wireless network in Sarantaporo could be quite revolutionary as a form of resistance to global capital’s land grabbing and industrial agriculture: if by using open source hardware and software independent farming can be made to be less oppressive and incite more people make the “exodus to the countryside” (or just not leave in the first place), then you might be able maintain some autonomy within the global food chain. Hell, maybe the pensioners can even run the farms remotely from their tablets using FarmBots. Either way, it’s just the beginning, especially since Sarantaporo.gr just qualified for the Ashoka Impact Program in Greece.
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The creator of the Global Village Construction Set wants to bring low-cost, DIY, open hardware farming equipment to the masses.
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about restaurants and supermarkets that donate their unused food at the
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The case for Co-op and Internships for students in food https://t.co/Ons2CUcBhm https://t.co/2ZwIzYX6lj
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"Industrial agriculture concentrates social power and exacerbates problems of food insecurity and poverty, whereas small-scale organic farming on an individual or community level can significantly distribute social power across communities all over the world. An approach like this is one we like to call “yardfarming” (a concept we’ve spent the last year advocating for through www.Yardfarmers.us).
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The Neighborhood Academy in Prinzessinnengarten presented in March 2016 the 15th Garden, a support network for independent food sovereignty in Syria, with an evening of discussion, food and music. The “15th Garden“ is a Syrian-European network that for the last two years has supported urban gardens and agricultural projects in and outside Syria. The network aims to strengthen independent food production in times of conflict; and above all, to sow the foundations for postwar food sovereignty.
Victor Lanselle's curator insight,
March 19, 2016 10:02 AM
"They created gardens on rooftops, in backyards, between the ruins of bombed houses, built irrigation systems and organised seeds. These gardens play an important role for the local food supply and for local self-determination, under siege."
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Documentary on Juliette of the Herbs is a beautifully filmed lyrical portrait of the life and work of Juliette de Bairacli Levy: herbalist, author, breeder of Afg...
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Andrew McDonnell https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30041/view_talk My friend is a farmer, who has various problems. Is it too dangerous to reap today?
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“Despite 300 years of industrialisation 156 of 196 modern states are agrarian; that is, their economies remain land based. Their assets cover two thirds of the world’s land area and cater to 87% of its population. Directly dependent rural dwellers number three billion or 42% of the world’s population. Most (at least two billion and... Continue reading →
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This book chapter is an ethnography of a vibrant solidarity economy that spread throughout crisis-ridden Greece from early 2012 onwards.
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Eddy Adams of SIX interviews Penny Travlou about Options Foodlab and the work she's been involved in with refugees in Greece.
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