Our Research Associate, Ranjitha Kumar, authored a paper titled, ‘Realising Data Cooperatives in the Digital Epoch: SEWA’s Journey to Reclaim Agri-Value Chains’ for the sixth issue of COOP Dialogue on Positioning Cooperatives in the Gig and Platform Economy, published by the International Cooperative Alliance.
The issue delves into the…
Data cooperatives offer an alternative to the enclosure of data in digitalized agricultural supply chains by large agri-tech platforms. Despite their potential, experiments in data cooperativism face challenges in a rapidly privatizing technopolitical ecosystem. In India, platforms addressing this issue often focus on producer organizations,…
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Tenure Guidelines on sustainable governance adopted by the Committee on World Food Security, FIAN International and the Working Group on Land and Territories of the IPC – a coalition of social movements working on food sovereignty and the Right to Food – will release a series of country-specific case…