The farmers from Indo-Pak bordering villages turned out to be far more resilient than expected amidst challenges like transportation clampdown during lockdown, locust attacks and...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
An aesthetic of regeneration
The five day Art event “Let me come to your wounds, heal myself”, as part of the 9th SeedFest 2020 of FTAK, was an invitation to come home, to our own senses and to claim...
App that helps farmers get better yield
NaPanta is a free to download ‘Agricultural crop management’ mobile application. Available on the Android platform, it currently has over 1,17,000 users (farmers) from across...
Self help is the best help – Indigenous farmers stand strong against economic slowdown
Farm on wheels, an initiative to sell local produce has enabled the farmer groups to access diverse local markets in a decentralized manner. In doing so this initiative has set...
Agroecology in Africa has a female face
Leonardo van den Berg and Janneke Bruil A community educator and food justice activist, Leonida Odongo has an impressive knowledge of the reality of farmers in Africa. In this...
Pivoting from local food to just food systems
The COVID-19 virus has jarred many people out of the illusion that globalised, corporate food is safe and secure. Yet, many people don’t know what to do about it. Some have taken...
Nutrition gardens – A promising intervention in the post COVID scenario
As the World grapples with the devastating consequences of the spread of the novel coronavirus, nations are faced with multiple questions that go well beyond the direct impact of...
The power of women’s networks for agroecology in India
“We knew we needed a space to save our native varieties of seeds and transmit the traditional knowledge of farming which is agroecological, which does not harm nature,” says...
Editorial
Agroecology is the basis for the future. It is a durable, resilient and a sustainable response. It illustrates how it can provide answer to multiple challenges – old and new, to...