Innovation is happening every day on farms, fishing boats, and community plots — most of it never digital. Networks like Prolinnova, the Kenyan Peasant League, and the wider Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) have spent decades sharing this knowledge through farmer innovation fairs, printed materials, person-to-person exchange, and small circles where attribution and trust are kept intact. As distributed-web tools mature, there is real risk of repeating old patterns — extraction, scale, communication breakdown — with new vocabulary. This session is a grounded conversation from networks rooted in Agroecology (Nyéléni 2015): what currently works, what farmers fear, and what genuine alliance with the DWeb community would actually look like.

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