Traditional crops ... the basis of our food and farming systems Mariam Mayet is the director of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). In a recent report, ACB turns their...
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LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Victor M. Toledo – “Agroecology is an epistemological revolution”
“Agroecology is an epistemological revolution” Interview: Diana Quiroz Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethnoecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of...
Elizabeth Peredo – “Water is the engine of change”
"Water is the engine of change” Interview: Henkjan Laats All her working life, Elizabeth Peredo has been engaged in defending human and environmental rights. For ten years until...
Irene Cardoso – “Healthy soils give family farmers autonomy, resilience and long-term productivity”
“Healthy soils give family farmers autonomy, resilience and long-term productivity” “If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three...
Listening and trust – the basis for working with forest and farm producers
“Working together is a motivating and powerful approach to getting things done” says Jeff Campbell, manager of the Forest and Farm Facility. “This holds true for my own approach...
“Link biodiversity with the pleasures of food”
“When you look at the map of global agrobiodiversity hotspots you realise that they are identical with indigenous people’s habitats. These 370 million people in the world have...
Chris Reij – Evidence of success
Working as a sustainable land management specialist at the Centre for International Cooperation of the Free University in Amsterdam, and as a Senior Fellow at the World Resources...
“Gastronomy is a search for tasty food, a search for healthy, local, nutritious food”
Promoting the holistic nature of nutrition and its links with family farming and local markets is Luis Ginocchio’s ‘bread and butter’ as the expression goes. For Peru’s former...
Agroecology and right to food
“Agroecology is really common sense. It means understanding how nature works, to replicate the natural workings of nature on farms in order to reduce dependency on external...