An innovation needs support to survive. The same innovation can make a revolution, provided it gets the recognition and support from the government. The Bihar government has...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Learning from the up-scaling efforts
Large scale upscaling of SRI among small and marginal farmers requires collaborative efforts among various actors promoting SRI. Adopting this approach, SDTT which has played a...
Editorial – SRI: A scaling up success
More and more farmers across the country are reaping rice harvests better than what they were reaping earlier, by following a set of practices, popularly called as System of Rice...
Group Farming: A community farming initiative
Farmers of Tumajore village in Odisha show that community farming results in better utilization of common resources, enhancement of the livelihoods by providing employment and...
The Narayana Reddy Column: Its time to look for local alternatives
Ever since the barter system of exchanging crop yields for various services disappeared and the weekly local markets, where farmers were selling their products directly to the...
Return of the Desi Rice
Sahaja Samrudha, an organic farmers’ collective began a decade ago as a farmer initiated group to exchange ideas, seeds and knowledge on sustainable agriculture. From its modest...
Forest Roots Network – Strengthening links between producers and consumers
Family farmers in the Zona da Mata region found that the model of Green Revolution with a prescribed integration with the international markets, did not bring the promised...
Participatory Guarantee Systems – Making organic certification more accessible for small scale farmers
Many farmers’ organizations all around the world and in India contribute to the establishment and promotion of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS). Particularly appropriate for...
Devpasli – A tribal farmers cooperative
Marketing initiatives on collective action often bring positive changes in farm incomes, by eliminating middlemen. Devpasli mandli, a farmers cooperative, is one such initiative...