Building Commons Enabling Infrastructure for Food Sovereignty: Community-Led Examples of Global Knowledge Sharing for Local Production and Autonomy

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Dorn Cox will introduce the agricultural knowledge commons as “enabling infrastructure”—shared tools, data, designs, and governance that let communities adapt and control their own food, knowledge, and local production systems. Grounding the talk in a longer historical arc, he’ll trace how knowledge of seeds, breeds, and technology intersects with open science and has moved from farmer-to-farmer networks and extension-era dissemination to today and tomorrow’s knowledge commons, and what’s been gained, lost, or steadfastly defended along the way. He’ll spotlight contemporary, community-led examples of global knowledge for local production and autonomy—from Farm Hack and GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) to OpenTEAM and the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA)—and close with a “power-up” invitation for participants to map commons infrastructure in their own contexts and identify concrete next steps for building greater autonomy together.