by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles, Marketing, Trade
In an unique initiative, students of agriculture in Tikamgarh played an important role in building linkages and thereby spreading organic farming. The linkage paved the way to move agriculture towards a healthy, environmental friendly and sustainable system. The...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles
Working lunch is in vogue but ‘learning lunch’ is a novelty, connecting city-dwellers with food-producers with an aim to let each farmer-find-a-friend for renewing rural-urban relationships. How do you get your wonderful lunch? Is it because you can afford it or...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles
As families in urban and peri-urban regions in Pokhara leave farming, they also lose access to traditional varieties of rice from their own farms. In this context, establishing linkages between rural producers and urban consumers can be an effective way of preserving...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles, Marketing, Trade
Poultry rearing is a traditional and age-old practice in rural areas. It is recognized as a potential tool to fight poverty and malnutrition. Establishing good linkages among the rural producers and urban consumers will go a long way in sustaining this rural...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles
Providing direct market access to the farmers plays a crucial role in the economic development. Farmers markets are an integral part of the rural-urban linkage and have continued to rise in popularity with the growing consumer interest in obtaining fresh products...
