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Panel Discussion
18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Thursday, 4 January 2024

Improving Regenerative Agriculture through Open Source Technology

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18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Thursday, 4 January 2024

Improving Regenerative Agriculture through Open Source Technology

This moderated panel conversation features Dorn Cox, a US-based New Hampshire family farmer and open source technologist, and David Bollier, an American commons activist and scholar with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (US). Cox has long been in the vanguard of using open source technologies to help improve crop yields, soil health, and ecosystem resilience, especially in the face of climate change. His 2023 book, The Great Regeneration, describes the use of free and open source community-developed hardware and software to improve land stewardship to expand local markets, improve ecological outcomes, expand our commonwealth of agricultural knowledge to bring hope and escape tech-based market control structures otherwise imposed by corporations. Bollier brings his extensive knowledge of commoning in diverse international contexts to this conversation, accenting the structures and culture of peer governance, the role of commons-friendly infrastructures, and the importance of keeping commoning and commerce distinct.