by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Quantifiable indicators of the environmental sustainability of agriculture—by which we mean minimizing the environmental impacts of agriculture—are an important tool for helping move the world toward a sustainable food future. Indicators enable policymakers, farmers,... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Agroecology approach is a way to make farming sustainable. It is also a way to resist the corporate agriculture model pushed through the green revolution and gene revolution. Besides technologies, it is important to create an equitable food system for the people who... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Clara Nicholls is the president of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA). For over three decades, she has worked in Latin America engaged in agroecology teaching and research, promoting agroecological alternatives to industrial agriculture and... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, AME, Articles
T M Radha In agroecology, farmers solve their problems adopting practices relying on judgments based on their local conditions, resources and knowledge levels. Farmers continuously learn developing better farming methods, and hence, knowledge becomes central in agro... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Whereas yield increases are considered central in modernised agriculture, they can be seen as just one element of impact in peasant farming. In assessing their farms, peasants depart from the specificities of their farm, the ecosystem in which it is embedded, the... 
by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to capture impact of an agro-ecological system. Measuring the impacts of agro ecology over...