by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Articles
Erratic rainfall patterns coupled with monocropping systems have made farming unreliable and highly risky, especially in rainfed regions. Simple practices like water conservation can make a huge difference in preparing farmers to cope with these climate aberrations....
by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Articles
The innovations by farmers to adapt to climate change conditions are an evolution of local knowledge. This knowledge is also relevant and useful to farmers within and outside the area in which the innovations take place. Identifying, harvesting and organising this...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Animal Husbandry, Articles, Diary, Farmer's Diary
Mr. Mani Kottekkad is a progressive dairy farmer from Kottekkad village of Palakkad district in Kerala. Till 2012, he was doing dairying with crossbred cattle. Spiralling costs of maintenance, especially the cattle feed, motivated him to change his production system....
by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Agroecology, Articles, Climate Change
Small farmers in Bundelkhand are adopting agricultural systems that cope with climate change, with support from Development Alternatives. The initiatives undertaken at the farm level and landscape level, are being upscaled building long term sustainability of climate...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Agroecology, Articles, Climate Change
By transforming and reorienting agricultural systems, innovative farmers are able to build resilience in farming and ensure food security, in a changing climate situation. Scaling up such grass root level innovations is necessary which require appropriate...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 16, 2017 | Agroecology, Articles, Climate Change
The coastal villages of Odisha are vulnerable to natural disasters occurring due to climate change. The livelihoods of the local people, particularly those working in the agriculture and allied sectors, are severely affected. The villagers in the coast line of...
