by Team LEISA India | Sep 21, 2022 | Agroecology, Articles, Resilience (Climate)
When a crisis hits, community organisations can draw upon six social dimensions of resilience. Here we highlight learnings from how communities in the Global South responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most severe global shocks of... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 21, 2022 | Agroecology, Articles, Resilience (Climate)
Natural farming being recognised as an important pathway for achieving sustainable development goals, a study was undertaken to understand the potential of natural farming as a sustainable agricultural model. The field assessment revealed that natural farming systems... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 20, 2022 | Agroecology, Articles, Resilience (Climate)
Vietnamese farmers in the Mekong Delta face worsening impacts of climate change. Environmental deterioration threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people here. Since 2016, a World Bank project has supported more than one million farmers transition into... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 20, 2022 | Agroecology, Articles, Resilience (Climate)
Farming becomes a challenge when flooded and left silted, making farmers vulnerable to weather and livelihoods. Technical support along with digital weather forecast and e-learning training has enhanced the resilience of farms and changed the fate of farmers like... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 20, 2022 | Agroecology, Articles, Resilience (Climate)
Farming can be remunerative even from an acre of land holding, when practiced through natural methods, utilizing natural resources to the optimum. Thammaiah, a farmer in Karnataka shows how small farmers can make a decent living adopting the multi cropping system,... 
by Team LEISA India | Jun 28, 2022 | Articles, Education
The centrality of any education system is knowledge. This article highlights how farmer’s traditional knowledge on millets was explored, revived and documented; how ‘farmer centric research process’ was carried out through participatory varietal trials; and, how the...