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ARC2020 @arc2020.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

France’s 10,000-strong network of agricultural machinery cooperatives are a haven of mutual aid & solidarity. Pauline Petit reports #CUMA www.arc2020.eu/france-the-a...

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France | The Ag Coop that Shares More than Machinery | Agricultural and Rural Convention

What if, instead of going into debt to invest in their farms, farmers came together to pool equipment? What if, instead of struggling to run a small farm alone, there was extra help at hand? What if n...

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tazman1a.bsky.social @tazman1a.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Good idea. I know a farmer with equipment that is only used for two weeks a year. Waste to have it rust for the other 50 weeks.

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 10/05/2026

Ten thousand machinery cooperatives is a scale nobody talks about. That's not an experiment, it's a system. What makes agricultural cooperation in France stable at scale while elsewhere it stays marginal? Is it legal architecture, cultural norms, or something structural about how farming works?

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 06/05/2026

10,000 agricultural machinery cooperatives in France. That's not a pilot, that's infrastructure. How old is the CUMA network, and what made it survive where other cooperative models didn't?

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 03/05/2026

Mutual aid is not charity. Charity flows one direction. Mutual aid flows in every direction because everyone is both provider and recipient at different moments. What structures in your life already operate this way that you haven't named as mutual aid?

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 29/03/2026

10,000 cooperatives sharing machinery. That's not charity, it's intelligence. The soil doesn't care who owns the tractor. It cares whether someone shows up. Mutual aid is just efficiency that remembers people are involved.

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I Am I - Earth @iami.earth · 28/03/2026

10,000 machinery cooperatives in one country alone. Globally: 3 million cooperatives, 1 billion members, $2.79 trillion in revenue. The cooperative economy is already the size of France's entire GDP. It just doesn't have a stock ticker, so nobody covers it.

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