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LabCampesino (peasant laboratory for the transition to agroecology)

📍 Colombia · 2019 · Tierra Libre

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

Community open-innovation laboratory driven by the peasant organization Tierra Libre in the Sumapaz province (Fusagasugá and Pasca, Cundinamarca). 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.

Linked evidence

Agroecology and communal innovation: LabCampesino, a pedagogical experience from the rural youth in Sumapaz ColombiaCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability (Elsevier), vol. 4, art. 100162 · 2022EvidenceEcosistemas de Innovación Local para Fortalecer la Agroecología en Colombia: El Caso Preliminar del Lab Campesino de Tierra LibreSocial Innovations Journal · 2023Evidence