The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, works to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity and the lives of rural populations, and to...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Farming as a positive choice
While conventional educational methods have made learning as abstract as possible, rarely connecting the leaner to reality, Puvidham Learning Centre has been shaping the thoughts...
Nature as a teacher
With little investment but conducive conditions, a bias against agriculture, an indifference vis a vis nature can easily be transformed into a positive and inquisitive attitude...
Back to farming
With increasing number of rural youth joining the labour market, rural entrepreneurship is seen as an important source of job creation where youth can be gainfully employed. But...
Life-skills and livelihoods college for the young farmers
Young people from farming families are opting out of agriculture, perceiving farming as drudgery and unremunerative. Baduku addressed this issue by helping these young farmers...
Youth as catalysts of accelerated agricultural and rural development
Opportunities for rural youth entrepreneurs are several. If educated youth choose to live in villages and launch the new agriculture movement, based on the integrated application...
Editorial – Youth in farming
Today around 25% of rural population in India are between ages 15 and 29 (2001 Census). The Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) has estimated that India’s labour force will increase...
Honey Bees – Farmers best friends
Low cost beekeeping has the potential to increase and even double the yields of local crops with no extra efforts. Recognising this fact, Under The Mango Tree (UTMT) promoted...
The Narayana Reddy Column – Living with insects
Nature is kind enough to create human beings after all its other creation so that we can enjoy and live happily and easily. But owing to our memory and thinking capacities, we...