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Sloane Yerger✓ Jun 2026Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
State-wide transition to natural farming (without synthetic chemical inputs) led by communities, scaled through Community Resource Persons and women's self-help groups. The public agency RySS coordinates farmer-to-farmer training in agroecological principles. The state pilot launched in November 2016; coverage ranges from ~1 million (2024, CEEW case) to 'more than 6 million' according to the CEEW country brief.
K✓ Nov 2020Jatropha curcas (piñón) biofuels project in Chiapas
State-level productive reconversion program that between 2007 and 2012 promoted the cultivation of Jatropha curcas (piñón) among thousands of Chiapas smallholder farmers to produce biodiesel, with extraction and biodiesel plants in Cintalapa and Tapachula (Puerto Chiapas) and service stations. In 2009 about 3,000 producers from 166 localities in 16 municipalities took part. The project failed: producers received poor-quality and late seed, germination was 0-40% in 79% of the cases, there was institutional instability (four government agencies within months), insufficient technical advice and delayed subsidies. Most of the decapitalized producers abandoned the plantations; the biodiesel plants were left abandoned (Cintalapa and Puerto Chiapas were dismantled around 2020).
Sonny Sixteen✓ Jan 2026LabCampesino (peasant laboratory for the transition to agroecology)
Community open-innovation laboratory driven by the peasant organization Tierra Libre in the Sumapaz province (Fusagasugá and Pasca, Cundinamarca). Rural youth co-create situated, open-hardware technologies for territorial management and the agroecological transition, linked to community biofactories and the Agroecological Peasant Schools (ECAs). It combines agroecology, co-creation and community organizing through participatory action research.