Today agriculture is passing through a difficult phase. The ever increasing costs of cultivation due to excessive dependency on the external inputs, high fluctuations in market...
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Towards sustainability….
“We were reluctantly migrating to other places in search of livelihood. Dry lands of ours with erratic rainfall, were not able to meet our food needs. Hardly one crop could be...
Need for changing agricultural practices
Farmers who were leading a self reliant and honourable life, have been facing many problems in agriculture during the past decade. These problems relate to decreasing land...
Transitioning to LEISA
Though I was born in a farming community, I did not take up to farming initially, but served the government department. I resigned my job and took up farming in the 1970s. It was...
Transition is a matter of watching and observing
In 1989-90 the Agriculture. Man and Ecology (AME) Programme. Pondicherry, studied the transition experiences of 12 ecological farmers in South India. Erik van der Werf reveals...
From chemical intensive to sustainable agriculture practices
The agriculture land of Western U.P., geographically located between the Ganga and the Yamuna, better known as Doab is one of the most fertile agriculture lands in the country....
Building on experience through documentation
Indian subcontinent is rich with traditional knowledge on health care, acquired over generations. Even today this knowledge is being practiced by rural communities widely....
Documenting knowledge for farmers
For ages, Vedas and Sanskrit slokas were being taught by the priests to their children, without scripts, transferring the knowledge orally. But same has not been the case with...
Participatory Action Learning in practice: Experience of Anandi, India
Since the 1980s there has been a rapid expansion in use of participatory diagram methods for collecting information as part of both planning and research processes. It is now...