Atelier Paysan
Renage, France
Climate Action
Paul Emilieu Marchesseau: “A cooperative born in Isère, L'Atelier Paysan helps farmers design and build their own tools, with open-source plans and training courses, towards technological sovereignty for peasant farming.”
L'Atelier Paysan is a French cooperative that supports farmers in self-building machines and buildings suited to organic and peasant agriculture. The tool plans, drawn from the contraptions invented on farms, are documented and released under a free licence, and group training courses teach people to weld, size and build for themselves. The stake is political as much as technical: reducing farms' dependence on large machinery manufacturers and on debt, and giving farmers back control of their me
Climate Action · Education & Work · Co-Being
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