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Providing software, platform administration and data infrastructure to farmers and food workers for the collective management of their shared resources. runrig.org
"Federated Municipal Platforms: A fundamental design pattern"

This one's a bit of a beast, also really critical as a comprehensive design document for Runrig's core value propositions. Shares and kind/constructive feedback would be much appreciated! 🙏🏻
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Federated Municipal Platforms
A federated municipal platform, or FMP, is a communally owned & controlled digital platform, enabling a regional foodshed or bioregion to manage its own land, resources, and labor according to its own...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Reposted by Runrig
🌈 The 3rd Nyéléni Forum saw the first Assembly of the Gender and Sexual Diversities and Allies take place. Hear from Maggie Cheney from Rock Steady Farm and Paula Gioia from La Via Campesina on the importance of this space.
Video

📽️ credit: Real World Radio
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September 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Scalability is fundamentally an expression for the rate at which a technology can increase socioeconomic inequality over time, effecting how resources are allocated and who controls that process.

It should be viewed as a measure of extractivism and of social control.

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Against Scale
A look at the way scalability perpetuates some of the worst tendencies of neoliberal capitalism, and how Runrig proposes to overturn those harmful dynamics through participatory design and transparent...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The first in a two-part series on the Runrig Journal regarding abstraction, complexity, and scaling in ag-tech:

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Illegible Agriculture
Why technocrats so often try (and fail) to simplify farming's essential complexity
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July 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Runrig Journal will be a way of developing & documenting Runrig's design principles out in the open, plus some updates from the past 18mos #ICYMI. Join the newsletter or follow here for more!
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Runrig
Runrig is a communal farming platform, a libre software project and a method of socio-ecological design. It aims for collective sovereignty over not just our food, but also the labor that raises it, t...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM