D:food/web

Nested within DWeb Camp 2026 (Theme: Root Systems), the D:food/web track is a series of workshops, demos, presentations and collaborative sessions exploring how to bridge decentralized technology with global food sovereignty movements. As industrial agriculture mirrors the data extraction and corporate capture seen in Web 2.0, this track gathers technologists, farmers, food system organizers, and cooperative governance experts working to build alternatives.

From July 8-12, 2026, at Alte Hölle in Brandenburg, Germany, we will harness the growing momentum and leadership in both food and tech sovereignty taking place across Europe to discuss, demonstrate, and collaborate on tools and technology that support regenerative and agroecological smallholder farmers, workers, and cooperatives around the world.

Participants will engage in talks, hands-on demonstrations, unconference sessions, and a Demo Night Market focused on core themes of:

• Community-Centered Design
  • How are tools, technologies, and practices designed with and by communities rather than for them? This theme explores methodologies for centering farmer and producer knowledge in development processes, what it means to design for adaptation and local context, and how to resist the pull toward expert-driven R&D models.
• Knowledge & Data Stewardship
  • Who owns agricultural knowledge and data? How are intellectual property regimes shaping what can be shared and built upon? This theme explores commons-based approaches to knowledge stewardship, IP and open licensing models, and the tension between protecting community knowledge and enabling its flow.
• Governance & Power
  • How do networks and organizations govern themselves in ways that distribute rather than concentrate power? This theme explores cooperative structures, collective ownership models, democratic decision-making, and what it takes to sustain these approaches over time without capture.
• Distributed Production
  • What does it take to build, manufacture, repair, and maintain tools outside of centralized systems? This theme explores regional manufacturing, open-source hardware, supply chains for small-scale production, and the material realities of making things.
• Funding & Resource Flows
  • How do resources move through this ecosystem, and who decides? This theme explores alternative funding models, the constraints and possibilities of different capital sources, and what financial infrastructure would actually support community-led innovation.
• Coordination & Collective Action
  • How do organizations and networks across this ecosystem actually work together — or fail to? This theme explores what enables and constrains partnership across geography, sector, and scale; the infrastructure needed for coordination; and what it would take to move from parallel efforts toward collective action.

Get Engaged: Become a Food Fellow

To help drive these conversations, we are sponsoring 15 to 25 Food Fellows to help curate, organize, and lead the in-person sessions. Whether you are working on open hardware for farming, exploring cooperative structures for data ownership, or building mesh networks for rural communities, we want you to join us.

We offer three participation tiers for the 2026 D:food/web track:

• Rhizome: A fully funded scholarship for applicants making a significant contribution to the track (e.g., presenting, facilitating).
• Seed: A needs-based partial scholarship covering a percentage of travel and ticket costs for applicants who will actively contribute to the track's programming.
• Super Link Volunteer: For those who wish to support the camp’s operations, committing to 24 hours of volunteer service (such as building wifi networks, distributing power, or helping in the kitchen) grants a discounted ticket and free meal plan, with no requirement to propose a specific contribution to the track.

💡 Ready to get involved? Applications are open now. The deadline to apply is April 26, 2026.