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● projectActive · local · 2019
LabCampesino (peasant laboratory for the transition to agroecology)
Community open-innovation laboratory driven by the peasant organization Tierra Libre in the Sumapaz province (Fusagasugá and Pasca, Cundinamarca).
illustrative atlas image · Sonny Sixteen / PexelsTLTierra LibreUNUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaJDJuan David Reina-RozoJAJairo A. Peña-Torres
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01 The context
Rural youth co-create situated, open-hardware technologies for territorial management and the agroecological transition, linked to community biofactories and the Agroecological Peasant Schools (ECAs). It combines agroecology, co-creation and community organizing through participatory action research.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceAgroecology and communal innovation: LabCampesino, a pedagogical experience from the rural youth in Sumapaz ColombiaCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability (Elsevier), vol. 4, art. 100162 · 2022
EvidenceEcosistemas de Innovación Local para Fortalecer la Agroecología en Colombia: El Caso Preliminar del Lab Campesino de Tierra LibreSocial Innovations Journal · 2023