Natural farming being recognised as an important pathway for achieving sustainable development goals, a study was undertaken to understand the potential of natural farming as a...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
For Mekong Delta farmers, diversification is the key to climate resilience
Vietnamese farmers in the Mekong Delta face worsening impacts of climate change. Environmental deterioration threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people here. Since...
Enhancing resilience of flood affected communities
Farming becomes a challenge when flooded and left silted, making farmers vulnerable to weather and livelihoods. Technical support along with digital weather forecast and...
Resilient farming – The one-acre model
Farming can be remunerative even from an acre of land holding, when practiced through natural methods, utilizing natural resources to the optimum. Thammaiah, a farmer in...
Editorial
Building farm resilience Building farm resilience is all about preparing farmers to cope, absorb and recover from challenges in dealing with their agricultural production and...
Agroecology education – June 2022 – Issue 24.2
READ THE MAGAZINE Education in any discipline needs to foster continuity and change. In applied sciences like Agriculture, Engineering, needs to be responsive to changing needs...
Strategies for reviving the agro-ecological approach
The centrality of any education system is knowledge. This article highlights how farmer’s traditional knowledge on millets was explored, revived and documented; how ‘farmer...
Pathways to promote agroecology
Agroecological approaches are highly location specific as they connect the links between the food needs, livelihoods, local culture, environment and the economics. Education on...
Agroecology Education – The pedagogy and practice
There needs to be a paradigm shift from a linear to cyclical approach to learning. This can happen when students move towards system thinking and build key competencies by...