Atelier Paysan
Climate Action
Why Paul Emilieu Marchesseau recommends Atelier Paysan
“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
- Place
- Renage, France
- Recommended by
- Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
- Collections
- Food Transition · Climate Action · Education & Work
Arpitan
Cooperativa fondâye en Isera, L’Atelier Paysan éde los agricultors a pensar et fabricar lors prôpros ôtils, a partir de plans libros et de fôrmacions, por una sovèrènetât tècnologica payisana.
L'Atelier Paysan est una cooperativa francêsa qu'accompagne los agricultors et les agricultrices dens l'ôtoconstruccion de machines et de bâtiments adaptâs a l'agricultura biologica et payisana. Los plans des ôtils, pensâs a partir des bricolâjos inventâs dens les fèrmes, sont documentâs pués difusâs en licence libra, et des fôrmacions colèctives aprenont a soudar, a dimensionar et a fabricar sè-mémo. L'enjeu est politico atant que tècnico : rèduire la dèpendance des fèrmes ux grants fabricants de machines et a l'endètament, et rebalyér ux payisans la mêtrise de lors moyens de produccion.
