Andrea Ferrante
Agroecologist, specialized on agricultural policies and agroecology: over 20 years’ experience in international food and agriculture policy development and rural development.
Extensive experience in working with and supporting small-scale food producing organizations globally, including in policy processes at national, regional and international level
20 years’ experience in running a organic family farm and actually member of a Bio social coop running a farm in Viterbo province (Italy)
Coordinator of the Schola Campesina Aps, International agroecology school based in the Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre (Civita Castellana, Viterbo, Italy)
R&D coordinator of Fondazione Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre Ets
President of the Agri Social Cooperative Teveriva Bio
Session
GIAA member networks — the Honey Bee Network and GIAN in India (over one million records), Prolinnova across Africa-Asia-Latin America, L'Atelier Paysan in France, Schola Campesina in Europe, Farm Hack and OpenTEAM in North America, and the Kenyan Peasant League — are federating their tools, data, and knowledge commons without collapsing into centralization, supported by the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance. This hands-on workshop demonstrates the working prototypes of both hardware and software infrastructure in production and surfaces the live governance tensions — federation without flattening, Prior Informed Consent and conditional-use licensing, membership criteria, and federation failure modes