Medius Bihunirwa is the head of the Farmer Enterprise Development Unit at Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC), Uganda where she works with smallholder farmers, enhancing...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Harvesting happiness from wastelands
With a little support from outside, tribal communities in Panposi village have turned their wastelands into productive assets. Trees raised on waste lands have not only increased...
Rythu Bazaars – The alternative marketing channel
Rythu Bazaar, a government initiative in Andhra Pradesh, to facilitate direct marketing for farmers is going strong even after 14 years of its establishment. With all its...
Linking markets for better incomes
Building market linkage is crucial for enabling farmers get better incomes. Facilitating market linkage involves understanding the demand and supply situation, transient storage...
Farmer producer organisations – Enhancing farmers share in the consumer price
Muttlur farmers are increasing their share in the consumer price by organizing themselves as producer organization. By resolving issues of trader exploitation, exploring new...
Editorial – Farmers and markets
Small scale family farmers in India, though are seasonal producers and produce on a smaller scale, yet contribute to the food security of the nation. Traditionally, these family...
Promoting youth as agri-preneurs
Through an innovative pilot programme on training rural youth in sustainable agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture Development in Nepal succeeded in addressing two major...
The Narayana Reddy Column: Educating youth on alternatives – The need of the hour
Indian farmers are at the cross roads. Every year their problems are compounding owing to several reasons - degradation of natural resources like land, water, forests, climatic...
ZIMSOFF and the Shashe Agro-Ecology School
While it is now widely acknowledged that a smallholder based, agro-ecological food production system is the best way to eradicate hunger and to reduce the impact of agriculture...