Read the magazine Food sovereignty is not just pride and rights issue, it is about respecting culture, cuisine, choice and climate… in fact, a very pragmatic approach. It is...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Seeds of resistance for food sovereignty
Food Sovereignty is about building a just world and is about a society free of oppression and inequality. This is the only way forward to secure our right to food in our homes...
Policy changes on millets: A relook
Millets are a rich source of nutrition and ideally suited for addressing the issues of hunger and malnutrition. However, government policies directed at providing nutrition in...
Balancing the old and the new
Living in harmony with nature is the surest way for living sustainably. Gujjars, a tribe in the northern parts of India, while holding on to the traditional cultures and systems,...
Access to seeds builds self-reliance
Farming and livelihoods of small, marginal and women farmers in flood-prone areas of Uttarakhand are under threat. Lack of flood resistant varieties often pushed them to the...
INTERVIEW – RAMONA DUMINICIOIU
“Food sovereignty is about peasant rights” Interview: Tomáš Uhnák Ramona Dominicioiu is a member of Eco Ruralis, a peasant association in Romania. In this interview, Ramona...
Attaining food sovereignty by building access to local seeds
The process of participatory revival, conservation and replication of traditional landraces is helping farmers from the tribal belt in Maharashtra regain their food sovereignty. ...
A self reliance path towards food sovereignty
The tribal farmers of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha have promoted biodiversity on their farms and on their plates by adopting agroecological models of food...
Reviving crop biodiversity, restoring food sovereignty
The indigenous Kutia Kondh community in Odisha has a rich knowledge and experience of millets-based, mixed farming systems. By reviving the community based seed banks and...