L'atelier paysan: a network for farmer-driven technologies and practices
Small-scale agroecological and organic farming systems require appropriate machinery and technologies, and a change of paradigm in the way they are conceived, produced, sold and patented. The mainstream agricultural model has led to machines that are getting increasingly bigger and more expensive and complicated, and thus inaccessible for many farmers who must choose between autonomy and overinvestment, resilience and dependency.
Year: 2018
Country/ies: France
Geographical coverage: Europe and Central Asia
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/3/BU706EN/bu706en.pdf
Content language: English
Author: Julien Reynien
Type: Innovation
Organization: L’Atelier Paysan – French cooperative